Welcome & Opening Keynote

Motown Mobility for All

Moderator: Council Member Benson
Panelists:

• Leona Medley, Executive Director, Joe Louis Greenway Partnership
• Karen Slaughter-DuPerry, Senior Director of Programs and Public Spaces, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
• Kim Tandy, District 2 Manager, City of Detroit (Invited)
• Bo Wilson, President, Grown Men on Bikes (Invited)

PROWAG and Beyond! 

• James Elliott, Toole Design Group
• Matt Johnson, Montgomery Country Department of Transportation
• Alessandro Figueroa, UNC Highway Safety Research Center

Boulevard of Broken Bollards: Lessons Learned about Temporary and Permanent Infrastructure

• Mitchell Kiecker, Minnesota Department of Transportation
• Hannah Pritchard, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Ambassador Programs - A Worthy Investment

• Marco Gorini, City of Philadelphia
• Meghan Alvarez, City of Philadelphia
• Catherine Girves, Toole Design
• Tobi Otulana, Toole Design

Workshop: Wayfinding With Tactile Walking Surface Indicators (TWSI)

• Sarah O'Brien, UNC Highway Safety Research Center
• Jennifer Graham, Accessible Design for the Blind

Mobile Tours (walking and biking/rolling options) - View more details about the mobile tours

• Windsor (Bike)
• Detroit’s Downtown Open Spaces and History (Walk)
• Downtown Ferndale (Walk) 

Cycle219: Initiating a Community-Owned and Operated Bike Share Program in Gary, Indiana

• Taylor Firestine, Health by Design
• David Wright, Gary Public Transportation

Transforming Our Streets: Embracing Community Connections through Traffic Calming, Tactical Urbanism, and Walk Audits

• Caila Brown, Bike Walk Savannah
• Rachel Umana, Bike Walk Macon
• Weston Stroud, Macon-Bibb County

Floating Bus Stops, Accessibility, and Cycling Infrastructure

• Brian Patterson, Urban Systems Ltd.
• James Elliott, Toole Design Group
• Shawn Smith, WSP
• Matt Johnson, Montgomery Country Department of Transportation
• Briana Weisgerber, Washington State Department of Transportation

When Driving Isn't An Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency

• Anna Zivarts, Disability Mobility Initiative, Disability Rights WA
• Ruth Rosas, America Walks
• Jill Tewsley, City of Milan, Michigan

Barriers and Opportunities for Bike/Ped Safety on State Urban Arterials

• Matthew Penniman, League of Michigan Bicyclists
• Carissa McQuiston, Michigan Department of Transportation
• Andrew Ceifetz, WSP
• Jun-Seok Oh, Ph.D., PE, PTOE, Transportation Research Center for Livable Communities, Western Michigan University

Planning, funding and designing urban multi use trails in Windsor, Toronto and Virginia Beach

• Al Rezoski City of Toronto
• Lori Newton Bike Windsor Essex
• Steven Lambert City of Virginia Beach

Workshop: Complete Streets Project Transportation Hierarchy Tool

• Sonja Piper, MnDOT
• Nissa Tupper, MnDOT
• Dan Edgerton, Zan Associates
• Pamela Fincher, Isthmus Engineering

Mobile Tours (walking and biking/rolling options) - View more details about the mobile tours

• East Riverfront Greenways (Bike)
• Mobility Innovation (Walk and Scooter)
• Joe Louis Greenway Tour (Walk)

Greenways As Community Connectors

• Emily Kennedy, Sam Schwartz
• Leona Medley, Joe Louis Greenway Partnership
• Karen Slaughter-DuPerry, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy

 Make Your Data Count

• Stephen Charters Eco-Counter
• Natalie Villwock-Witte Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University

Keynote by Nina Idemudia, AICP

Nina joined CNT in September 2023 as CEO. As a native Detroiter, Nina understands firsthand how the built environment shapes the lives of society’s most vulnerable populations. This fuels her passion for empowering people to be change agents through urban planning

Equitable, sustainable, and local implementation of a national trail vision, step-by-step

• Phil Goff, VHB
• Peter Sutton, Massachusetts Department of Transportation
• Bruce Donald, East Coast Greenway Alliance

Complete Networks: A Performance-Based, Multimodal Planning Tool

• Jenya Abramovich, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
• Mike Davis Jr., Michigan Department of Transportation

 The Art of the Possible: Advancing Walking and Biking with Federal Programs

• Bernadette Dupont, Federal Highway Administration
• Christopher Douwes, Federal Highway Administration
• Jona Elson, Federal Highway Administration
• Susan Wilson, USDOT
• Jessica Rich, Federal Highway Administration

Chapter Leadership Session

Student Poster Presentations (Exhibit and poster viewing)

How Green Can We Go? Transforming College Commuting for Campus Sustainability and Beyond

• Tayo Taiwo, University of Maryland, College Park

Modelling Pedestrian Crossing Behaviour and Violations as a Pathfinding Process

• Christopher Lehmann Skelton, University of Waterloo

Steering Toward Sustainability: E-Bikes, E-Scooters, and the Urban Campus Experience  

• Nicole Odell, North Carolina State University

Quick Shot Presentations

The True Story of a Detroit Bike Commuter

• Alex Johnston, Cities Reimagined

Kansas City's Lessons Learned on building 30 Miles of Separated Bike Lanes in 2 years

• Bailey Waters, City of Kansas City, Missouri

Safe'r' Routes to School

• Allison Porton, Sam Schwartz

The Pedestrian's Tale

• Brian Davis, Studio Davis

Connecting Communities Across the Banks of the Rio Salado

• Christopher Eric Milner, T.Y. Lin International
• Brandy Ruark, City of Phoenix

Boulder Comprehensive Snow Response

• Stephen Bartels, Olsson

Building Sidewalks Equitably and Efficiently Across Washington, D.C.

• Karyn McAlister, District Department of Transportation
• Jonathan Murphy, District Department of Transportation;
• George Branyan, District Department of Transportation

Community Empowerment through Urban Greenways:  Sharing best practices and addressing disinvestment in four Midwest cities

• Janat Attarian, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, SmithGroup
• Shaughnessy Daniels, Great Rivers Greenway
• Danitra Jones, Northwest Side Community Development Corporation
• John Adams, CPA Bronzeville Trail Task Force

Micromobility Solutions for Transformative Change

• Shawn Smith, WSP
• Jamie Stuckless, Stuckless Consulting Inc.
• Lexi Petrella, Alta Planning + Design Inc.

Workshop - The Need for Safer Speed in the US and Kansas City

• Bailey Waters, City of Kansas City, Missouri
• Michael Kelley, BikeWalkKC
• Uday Manepalli, City of Kansas City, Missouri
• Maggie Green, Burns & McDonnel
• Josh Boehm, WSP
• Ken McLeod, The League of American Bicyclists

Mobile Tours (walking and biking/rolling options) - View more details about the mobile tours

• Belle Isle Park & Detroit Riverfront (Bike)
• Implementing the Livernois-McNichols Corridor Plan in Northwest Detroit (Walk)
• Stroll Detroit’s International Riverfront (Walk)

Building Collective Buy-in for Trails and Active Transportation

• Mary Ellen Koontz, Rails to Trails Conservancy
• Jennifer Antel, West Michigan Trails
• Mike Smith, Michigan Department of Transportation

Creation of a Walking and Bicycling Data Collection Toolkit

• Jennifer Dill, Transportation Research and Education Center, Portland State University
• Darren Buck, Federal Highway Administration, US DOT

• Meredyth Sanders, Kittelson & Associates, Inc
• Lila Singer-Berk, Toole Design

Social Event: Dine Arounds

Join us for an unforgettable evening of food, fun, and networking at our Dine Arounds! We will gather in small groups to explore some of local favorites. This event is the perfect opportunity to unwind, make new connections, and experience the vibrant culinary scene the city has to offer. Sign-ups opening soon. 

Trail Towns in the Nation's Heartland

• Melinda Vonstien, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
• Matt Leasure, Designing Local

How Safe Routes to School Programs Support Equitable Community Engagement and Funding Opportunities

• Rose Mesterhazy, City of Palo Alto
• Hannah Day-Kapell, Alta Planning + Design
• Xao Posadas, Oregon Department of Transportation

Workshop - Elevate and Envision: A BIPOC Affinity Workshop

• Tobi Otulana, Toole Design
• Anish Tailor, Toole Design

Mobile Tours (walking and biking/rolling options) - View more details about the mobile tours

• Connecting Southwest Detroit and Catalyzing Transformation (Bike)
• Midtown (Walk) 

Everyone Can Ride 

• John Waterman, Programs to Educate all Cyclists (PEAC)
• Jacob Graham, MOGO

Implementing Complete Streets by Establishing Partnerships and Building Community Consensus

• Matt Johnson, Montgomery Country Department of Transportation
• Ricardo Gutierrez, Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Fazal Qureshi, Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization