sunday, march 29 / various locations monday, march 30 / sentinel

2015 / active transportation summit agenda
#atsummit
sunday, march 29 / various locations
Afternoon
Mobile Workshops
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
No-host, open to the public networking event, JackKnife, SW 11th and SW Alder (at The Sentinel) Avoid the morning check-in lines by picking up your Summit name tag and program early! JackKnife will
be offering happy hour prices all evening to folks wearing an Active Transportation Summit name tag.
monday, march 30 / sentinel hotel
8:10 a.m.
Conference Overview and Welcome, Leah Treat, Director of Transportation, City of Portland
8:20 a.m.
Vision Zero with keynote speaker Paul Steely-White, Executive Director, Transportation
Alternatives, New York City
9:30 a.m.
Break
9:45 a.m.
Breakout Session I
11:15 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m.
Lunch welcome / Metro Councilor Bob Stacey, representing Summit lead sponsor Metro
11:30 a.m.
Transportation Equity with keynote speaker Melissa R. Wells, PolicyLink, Washington, D.C.
1:00 p.m.
Break
1:15 p.m.
Breakout Session II
2:45 p.m.
Break
3:00 p.m.
Breakout Session III
4:30 p.m.
Break
4:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks (Governor Ballroom) with Karmen Fore, Transportation Policy Advisor to Governor
Kate Brown
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Networking Reception (Governor Ballroom) with music by the Ellen Vanderslice Jazz Quartet
8 p.m.
No-Host After Party/Pecha Kucha Session, NW Lucky Lab Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby
tuesday, march 31 / sentinel hotel
9 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
NACTO Urban Bikeways Training (advance registration required)
9 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
NACTO Urban Streets Training (advance registration required)
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions V-VIII
9 a.m. - noon
Oregon Bicycle Tourism Partnership (OBTP) Meeting (advance registration required)
noon- 1 p.m.
Lunch (for Day 2 NACTO and Breakout Session Registrants (Governor Ballroom)
1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Annual Statewide Safe Routes to School Network Meeting
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session descriptions / sessions noted with * are approved for AICP credits
/ sunday, march 29
/ mobile workshops (advance registration required)
The Orange MAX Line as an Active Transportation Corridor: Northern Section Mobile Tour- Sunday,
1:00- 2:45 p.m. (Bike Tour)
The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Line (Orange Line) opens in September. This mobile workshop/tour of the
northern section of the Orange Line will highlight biking and walking connections made by and in conjunction
with the MAX project. This tour will involve biking from downtown to the SE 17th area, covering areas on both
sides of the river along the way. Key points will include: Treatments on SW Lincoln, SW Harbor Drive, Moody
and Porter, SE Division and Clinton improvements, and SE 17th.
Led by: Jeff Owen, TriMet; Jean Senechal Biggs, Michelle Dellinger; and Ty Reynolds, City of Portland Bureau
of Transportation
Neighborhood Greenways Tour: Past, Present, and Future- Sunday, 1:00- 3:00 p.m. (Bike Tour)
Join the Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee for a mobile tour of Portland’s Neighborhood Greenway system,
focusing on the evolution of design and best practices. Route and discussion will examine the opportunities
for innovation in response to neighborhood concerns, adjacent land uses, and increased commercial and
residential density.
Led by: Ian Stude, Transportation and Parking Services Director, Portland State University; Portland Bicycle
Advisory Committee Chair; Evan Ross, Adventure Specialist, Cycle Portland Bike Tours; Portland Bike Advisory
Committee Member; Roger Geller, City of Portland Bicycle Coordinator
Advocates of All Stripes- Sunday, 3:00- 5:00 p.m. (Bike Tour)
Portland relies on awide range of cultural and commercial institutions to keep active transportation moving
forward. From m
ember-based non-profits and bike shops to boutique industries and guerilla skateparks, this
5-mile bike ride will visitsites of conventional and unconventional active transportation advocacy andconclude
with drinks at abiker bar ininner Southeast Portland.
Led by: Carl Larson, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Engagement Manager
Foster Road: From Mean Street to Main Street- Sunday, 3:00- 5:00 p.m. (Bike Tour)
Transformation of a Portland high crash corridor to a neighborhood-friendly street where walking, riding a
bike, and shopping, will be easy, safe and comfortable. Learn how advocates, businesses, neighbors, and the
city came together to create a shared vision of their future. Bike tour with frequent stops and stories. Ride will
be stressful, but safe.
Led by: Kathryn Doherty-Chapman and Nick Falbo
Tour a Potential New “Green Loop” Alignment Through Downtown Portland- Sunday, 3:30- 5:30
p.m. (Bike Tour)
Learn about the “Green Loop” concept – an easy and smooth linear open space connection through the
Central City district’s parks and open spaces. The “Green Loop” will increase access to the city’s largest
employment center, expanding healthy activities and active transportation throughout a 10-mile walking and
biking path intended to serve the needs and aspirations of all ages and abilities. It would invite residents,
employees, and visitors from the city and from around the world to experience Portland’s Central City in an
entirely new way. This connected path would allow people to take a break from work, walk or ride among
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trees and in beautiful parks, enjoy restaurants and shops, or just breathe fresh air and get some exercise. The
concept brings together and links multiple infrastructure projects (completed, under construction, or planned)
through the Central City.
Tour the potential alignment on the West side of the river – connecting the Broadway Bridge, North and
South Park Blocks, Portland State University, and OHSU at South Waterfront. Discuss with city staff and active
transportation advocates the potential challenges, opportunities, and solutions at specific stops along the way.
Learn about and help inform a Portland State University Masters of Regional Planning Graduate Workshop
focused on the southern end of this West-side portion that will recommend place-specific desired public space
amenities, facility design ideas, and potential implementation strategies.
Led by: Lora Lillard
/ no-host networking happy hour and early check-in
The JackKnife at The Sentinel- Sunday, 5:00- 7:00 p.m.
Meet and greet other Summit attendees and avoid the morning line by picking up your conference materials.
JackKnife is offering all-night happy hour pricing to anyone with a Summit nametag.
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/ monday, march 30
/ summit overview and welcome
Leah Treat, Director, Portland Bureau of Transportation
/ morning plenary
Vision Zero: The People-Centered Approach to Transportation that is transforming New York City,
and what it could mean for Oregon (Governor Ballroom)
Keynote: Paul Steely-White, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives in New York with Rob
Sadowsky, BTA, and Noel Mickelberry, Oregon Walks
/ breakout sessions and mobile workshop I
Trends in Recreational Bicycling- Monday, 9:45-11:15 a.m. (Billiard Room)
Fat biking, flowy mountain bike-specific trails, epic events, gravel biking, and more. Recreational bicycling
opportunities in Oregon are evolving to meet the growing demands of locals and visitors. Hear from an
Oregon land manger, bicycle manufacturer, tour operator, and event promoter on what is trending in the
recreational bike world, what they’re doing to meet the demand, and how it’s positively impacting rural
Oregon economies.
Moderator:
Nastassja Pace, Travel Oregon
Speakers:
Zach Zarrett, Outdoor Recreation Planner, Bureau of Land Management
Alison Graves, Executive Director, Cycle Oregon
tags: events, recreation, travel,
gravel and mountain biking,
rural communities
Dylan VanWeelden, Marketing Manager, Chris King Precision Components
Gabriel Amadeus, Fun Ambassador, Limberlost
Organizing for Vision Zero in Oregon- Monday, 9:45-11:15 a.m. (Grand Ballroom)
Participants will learn about Vision Zero, a transformative new way of thinking that simply states that there
is no way we will tolerate a single road fatality. Cities across the country are setting visionary policy that
will reduce traffic deaths with specific benchmarks down to zero within twenty to thirty years. This workshop
will facilitate discussion that will help develop real strategies and plans for building consensus around Vision
Zero in Oregon, its counties and municipalities.
Speakers:
Rob Sadowsky, Executive Director, Bicycle Transportation Alliance
Noel Mickelberry, Executive Director, Oregon Walks
Paul Steely-White, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives
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tags: safety, policy, toolkit, vision
zero
Large Institutions: How Their Decisions Affect Active Transportation- Monday, 9:45-11:15 a.m.
(Card Room)
Large institutions such as schools and hospitals can support or undermine active transportation through site size
and design, bike and car parking policies, and other means. Schools located on large, remote sites can render
Safe Routes to School programs irrelevant, but those with good connections to neighborhoods encourage
walking and biking to school. Where large institutions choose to locate – and especially how they integrate
with the transportation network – affect whether students, hospital employees, and others can use active
transportation. This session will examine these issues and discuss how schools in Eugene, Springfield, and Salem
– and a hospital in Seattle – exemplify some best practices.
Moderator: Constance Beaumont, Education & Outreach Manager, Transportation & Growth Management
Program
Panelists:
tags: Safe Routes to School,
Eric Jacobson, Senior Project Manager, Portland Development Commission
transport demand manage-
Shane MacRhodes, Program Manager, Safe Routes to School,
ment, parking, school siting
Eugene School District 4J Transportation
Tom Brennan, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard
Chris Ellison, Transportation Manager, Eugene School District 4J
Walking in the Street: Grappling with the Complexity of Equity and Walkability; A Roundtable
Discussion- Monday, 9:45- 11:15 a.m. (Library Room)
Active transportation infrastructure investments are not distributed equitably. In urban, suburban, and rural
areas, those with the least means and fewest transportation options often live amidst the most hostile walking
environments. Though the situation is evident, the problem is complex and solutions are evasive. How do our
investment choices, housing policies, and societal mores reinforce this inequity and what can be done to redress
it? This roundtable session will enable a multidisciplinary conversation about walkability and equity, in all its
complexity.
Moderator: Kenny Asher, Community Development Director,
City of Tigard
Participants:
tags: walkability, equity, land
Justin Buri, Executive Director, Community Alliance of Tenants
use, affordable housing, youth,
Dana Dickman, Transportation Planner, Alta Planning + Design
seniors
Sheila Greenlaw-Fink, Executive Director,
Community Partners for Affordable Housing
Mee Seon Kwon, Center for Intercultural Organizing
Noel Mickelberry, Executive Director, Oregon Walks
Dick Schouten, Washington County Commissioner
Bandana Shrestha, Community Engagement Director, AARP
Ellen Vanderslice, Walking Advocate, retired PBOT Capital Projects Manager, AIA
*Protected Bicycle Lanes in the US: The latest on design and effectivenessMonday, 9:45-11:15 a.m. (Renaissance Room)
Knowledge about the design and effectiveness of protected bike lanes is rapidly advancing in North America.
In 2014 a PSU-led research team published “Lessons from the Green Lanes: Evaluating Protected Bike Lanes
in the U.S.” that addressed six questions about the implementation and operation of protected bike lanes in
the U.S. On a parallel track has been an FHWA-commissioned study on protected bike lanes that will evaluate
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their safety performance and provide cities design guidance for implementation. The study includes a literature
review, case studies, and interviews with agencies that have planned, designed, and implemented protected
bike lanes. This workshop presents the results of PSU research from the practitioner’s perspective and will also
present the findings of the FHWA study by two of the consultants working on that project.
Moderator: Roger Geller, Bicycle Coordinator, City of Portland
Speakers:
tags: protected bike lanes, cycle
Roger Geller, Bicycle Coordinator, City of Portland
tracks, NITC, Green Lane Project,
Jesse Boudart, Transportation Analyst, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
research, design, FHWA, guidance
Hermanus Steyn, P.E., Principal Engineer, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
Mobile Workshop: Portland Streetcar Behind the Scenes (Streetcar Ride)- Monday, 9:45-11:15 a.m.
(advance registration required; meet outside the hotel at SW 11th and Alder)
In September 2015 the Portland Streetcar will open the “Central Loop” and a vision that began over thirty
years ago will be realized with streetcars using the Tilikum and Broadway bridges to complete a full circle
around Portland’s central city. Over 16,000 people use the streetcar every weekday to get to work, to school,
or to connect to any number of destinations around Portland.
Join Portland Streetcar’s Executive Director, Dan Bower, on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Portland Streetcar
Maintenance and Operations center, where you will be able to get under, on top, in the middle of, and
generally all around a streetcar located in one of the maintenance bays. Pose for selfies in the driver’s seat,
learn about future plans for the network, and see all it takes to run a seventeen-car operation.
The tour will begin and end at the Sentinel Hotel with a stop at the Maintenance and Operations facility
located at 1516 NW Northrup St.
Led by: Dan Bower, Executive Director, Portland Streetcar
/ monday lunch plenary (governor ballroom)
Achieving Equity in Local and Regional Planning: Tools to Help Planners and Community
Stakeholders
Welcome: Metro Councilor Bob Stacey
Keynote: Melissa R. Wells, PolicyLink, Washington, D.C.
/ breakout sessions and mobile workshop II
Open Table Discussion: Operationalizing Equity in Transportation- Monday, 1:15-2:45 p.m.
(Card Room)
Unprogrammed opportunity for an open table discussion following the lunch plenary. You are invited to bring
further questions about Policy Link’s work, efforts within Oregon to increase equity and inclusive governance,
and strategies for operationalizing equity in Oregon and within your own spheres of influence. Please come
grapple with crucial issues with other Summit attendees.
Facilitators:
Melissa Wells, Policy Link
Heidi Guenin, Upstream Public Health
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*Towards Safer Biking and Walking Environments- Monday, 1:15-2:45 p.m. (Renaissance Room)
Engineering and planning play an important role in helping to achieve Vision Zero goals. Several projects in
Oregon are helping to improve understanding of how technologies can play an important role in improving
safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. In this session, presenters will talk about the ORcycle smartphone app
developed for collecting crash and safety data, the effectiveness of using an active warning sign to reduce right
hook conflicts, and a study helping ODOT to better plan and implement countermeasures to reduce pedestrian
and bicycle crash risk.
Moderator: Hau Hagedorn, TREC
Presenters:
Miguel Figliozzi and Bryan Blanc, Portland State University
tags: tools and technology, safety,
bicycling, engineering
Casey Bergh, Kittelson and Associates, Inc.
Kirk Paulsen/Will Farley, Lancaster Engineering
Safe Routes to School: New Partnerships for Regional Health Equity- Monday, 1:15-2:45 pm (Library
Room)
In this session, participants will learn about the process of how, starting in 2011, the City of Portland Safe Routes
to School program worked with community stakeholders to create policy around equitable service delivery.
Now this policy guides the program in selecting schools to receive infrastructure projects, education services
and encouragement initiatives. Participants will also learn about Safe Routes to School as a regional approach
to meeting health equity goals from a diverse coalition of partners leading the For Every Kid Campaign in the
Portland Metro Region.
Moderator: LeeAnne Fergason, Safe Routes to School Advocate, BTA
Speakers:
tags: youth, schools, equity, coali-
Carolina Iraheta Gonzalez, City of Portland Safe Routes to School
agement, infrastructure, policy,
Duncan Hwang, APANO
community organizations, GIS,
Scotty Ellis, Coalition for a Livable Future
campaign, safe streets
tion, partners, education, encour-
Health and Transportation: A Love Story?- Monday, 1:15-2:45 pm (Grand Ballroom)
Get up close and personal with transportation and health professionals in an intimate exchange that explores
the potential for our understanding of health to meaningfully impact transportation decisions. Is a happy
relationship possible? Early signs point to yes. Transportation and health agencies are developing formalized
partnerships and new tools that measure the impacts of transportation on human and environmental health.
But will decision makers take these into account? This fishbowl discussion invites participants to actively join the
table and the conversation and ask hard questions. Each of the panelists is currently engaged in integrating
health and transportation. Andrea Hamburg and Brendan Haggerty will outline the research basis of the
health benefits and risks of active transportation. Talia Jacobson will describe how the Oregon Department of
Transportation is engaging in conversations about health, including developing a memorandum of understanding
with Oregon Health Authority, impacting on the ground funding and design. Steve Szigethy and Rose
Sherwood present several case studies of one county’s efforts to develop a sustainable relationship and work
collaboratively within the departments of Health & Human Services and Land Use & Transportation. Chris Rall
provides the big picture, exploring how performance measures can help the region invest the next $2 billion to
guide us to results we value.
Moderator:
Lake Strongheart McTighe, Active Transportation Program Manager, Metro
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Presenters:
tags: agency partnerships, health,
Andrea Hamberg, Health Impact Assessment Program Coordinator,
HIAs, planning, policy, performance
Environmental Public Health, Oregon Health Authority
measures
Brendon Haggerty, Epidemiologist, Health Impact Assessment Program,
Oregon Health Authority
Talia Jacobson, Active Transportation Policy Lead,
Oregon Department of Transportation
Steve Szigethy, Principal Planner,
Washington County Department of Land Use & Transportation Planning & Development Services
Rose Sherwood, Senior Program Coordinator,
Washington County Department of Health and Human Services
Chris Rall, Pacific Northwest Field Organizer, Transportation for America
*Funding and Supportive Community Design for Active Transportation- Monday, 1:15-2:45 pm
(Billiard Room)
This session will examine funding resources that can help communities build active transportation projects
and provide an environment that encourages bicycling and walking. Planning and construction grants, code
assistance, and other kinds of help available through the Oregon Transportation and Growth Management
Program, ODOT’s Connect Oregon and Enhancement programs, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department,
system development charges, and other sources will be discussed.
Moderator:
Matthew Crall, Manager, Planning Services Division, Dept. of Land Conservation & Development
Panelists:
Sheila Lyons, P.E., Pedestrian and Bicycle Program Manager,
Oregon Dept. of Transportation
tags: funding for bike/ped projects,
land use, community design
Laura Buhl, Code Assistance Manager,
Transportation & Growth Management Program, DLCD
Doug Gabbard, Project Manager, FCS Group
Laura Underhill, Trails Program Coordinator,
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
Terry Cole, Senior Transportation Planner, Oregon Dept. of Transportation
Mobile Workshop: Bikes Mean Business in Downtown Portland (Walk)- Monday, 1:15-2:45 p.m.
(advance registration required; meet outside the hotel at SW 11th and Alder)
More bike trips start or end in downtown Portland than anywhere else in the region. This is thanks, in part, to
downtown businesses that recognize the economic benefit to making biking an easy transportation choice. On
this walk, we’ll visit downtown employers who have recognized the benefits of biking, explore existing bike
infrastructure, and visit sites of potential new bikeways.
Led by: Carl Larson, Bicycle Transportation Alliance
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/ breakout sessions and mobile workshop III
Mobile Workshop: North Williams Safety Project & NE Multnomah Cycle Track Project (Bike Tour)Monday, 2:45-5:00 p.m. (advance registration required; meet outside the hotel at SW 11th and
Alder)
A mobile workshop led by City traffic engineers Rob Burchfield and Wendy Cawley. The workshop/bike tour
will explore project design elements for these recent and highly visible projects, including safety, bikeway
design, and lane reductions. Workshop leaders will provide context for the design treatments and choices and
discuss some of the challenges to implementing these types of ‘street make-over’ projects.
Breaking New Ground: Making Active Transportation Viable to Middle and High School StudentsMonday, 3:00-4:30 p.m. (Renaissance Room)
Working with older students has its challenges and rewards. Middle school students are forging their
independence while discovering their world. High school students are becoming leaders in their communities.
Hear from the Multnomah Youth Commission on how they are organizing for an equitable transit system.
Learn from a community non-profit and a government agency of how they are engaging middle school-aged
students in active transportation.
Speakers:
tags: youth, Safe Routes to School,
Kelly Hansen, Community Cycling Center
transit, YouthPass, programs, advocacy,
Janis McDonald, City of Portland Bureau of Transportation
equity, schools
Adriana Rangel-Ponce,
Multnomah Youth Commission and De La Salle North Catholic High School
Lashawn McCarthy, Multnomah Youth Commission and Milwaukie High School
*Creating Cohesive Low-Stress Bikeways, Monday, 3:00-4:30 p.m. (Card Room)
Many pieces go into play in creating a city’s bikeway network. This workshop will look at the City of
Portland’s data about the operating characteristics of its 71 miles of neighborhood greenways (bicycle
boulevards). This quantification is part of an effort to define needed design, operational, and policy tweaks to
ensure that they serve their function in contributing to a high bicycle mode split.
Bicycle wayfinding is an essential tool on boulevards and on all bicycle facilities for increasing their use and
user comfort once in place. This session will describe best practices for on- and off-street bicycle wayfinding
with specific tips and examples for how to design effective systems. Find out how communities are working
within and beyond the MUTCD to achieve compelling signage systems that reflect local community values
and character. Topics to be discussed include: Components of the wayfinding system, placement planning,
destination prioritization, and working with stakeholders.
Moderator: Roger Geller, Bicycle Coordinator, City of Portland
Speakers:
Greg Raisman, Traffic Safety Specialist, City of Portland
Karen Vitkay, Associate, Alta Planning + Design
tags: signing, wayfinding, MUTCD, bike
boulevards, neighborhood greenways,
policies, existing conditions, assessment
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*Tools of the Trade: Prioritizing and Planning for Active Transportation- Monday, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
(Billiard Room)
A number of tools and methods are available to transportation professionals to help prioritize active
transportation investments and measure performance. This session will give you an overview of the latest tools
that exist, the data needed to support the tools, and which tool may work best at a system or project level.
Presentations will cover performance measures such as multimodal level of service, level of traffic stress; and
tools such as Mosaic, the recently completed national study NCHRP 1-17, and Seattle DOT framework.
Moderator: Hau Hagedorn, TREC
Presenters:
tags: performance measures, modeling
Active Transportation Performance Measures
tools, cost benefit anaylsis
Susan Wright, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
NCHRP 7-17 Methodology for Prioritization of Bicycle and Pedestrian Needs
Karla Kingsley, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
Modal Showdown: Creating decision making frameworks for balancing competing needs
Stephanie Wright and Katie Drennan, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting
Oregon Mosaic: leveling the playing field in assessing the costs and benefits of active transportation
investments
Catherine Ciarlo and Ryan Farncomb, CH2M Hill
Fixing Suburban Roads, From Barrier to Busy Bikeway: Opportunities to make key, comfortable
connections- Sunday
Does your community have roadways that make key connections, sometimes the only connection, but currently
serve as barriers to walking and biking? Is the barrier simply just crossing the street? Explore and discuss
various design options, talk about how they can evolve through the life of a roadway and discuss potential
challenges to implementation in this interactive workshop. Come ready to have healthy debates about the
merits and tradeoffs of shared two-way side paths vs one-way protected bike lanes, RRFB’s vs. HAWK’s, and
mountable curbs vs. delineators.
Moderator: Jenna Stanke Marmon, Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Manager, Jackson County
Shelley Oylear, Bicycle & Pedestrian Coordinator, Washington County
Elizabeth Stacey, Project Leader, Region 3, ODOT
tags: engineering, design, facilities, bar-
Rob Inerfeld, Transportation Planning Manager, City of Eugene
riers, rural and suburban communities
How the Orange MAX Line Became an Active Transportation Corridor: A Story of Collaboration,
Design Innovation, and Tenacity- Monday, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Through a series of biking and walking improvements that were part to the Portland to Milwaukie MAX line,
the partnering agencies wove an active transportation network to both provide access to the stations, and also
enhance local connectivity. The presentation will highlight choices made during the design process to resolve
conflicts and enhance local access, by describing specific examples including the Tillikum Crossing bridge,
station areas and the Trolley Trail. It’s a story of leveraging resources, creative design, advocacy, partnership,
and creating opportunities, with lessons that can be applied to many kinds of transportation projects.
Presenters:
Katie Mangle, former City of Milwaukie staff, Alta Planning + Design
Teresa Boyle, Senior Engineer, City of Portland
tags: partnerships, coordination, fund-
Mark Gamba, Milwaukie City Council
ing, planning, design, implementation,
Dave Unsworth: Director Project Development & Permitting, TriMet
process, access to transit
Jeff Owen: Active Transportation Planner, TriMet
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/ closing remarks
4:45- 5 p.m. (Governor Ballroom)
Karmen Fore, Transportation Policy Advisor for Governor Kate Brown
/ networking reception
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. (Governor Ballroom)
Enjoy light appetizers, no-host bar, and music by the Ellen Vanderslice Jazz Quartet. Stick around for a special
active transportation medley with guests:
Michael Mehaffy, Executive Director, Sustasis Foundation
Laurence Qamar, AIA, CNU-A, Qamar & Associates
John Czarnecki, AIA, Principal, New Traditional Architecture
/ pecha kucha session
8:00-10:00 p.m. at the NW Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby
What’s a Pecha Kucha, you ask? Think of it as packing a fun, engaging, and powerful message, slideshow style,
in six minutes and 40 seconds. Twenty slides. Twenty seconds each. Challenge accepted?
1. Lisa Frank, Bicycle Transportation Alliance: Taking Protected Bike Lanes to the Suburbs
2. Shane MacRhodes, Eugene Safe Routes to School: Back to the Future: Kids Riding Bikes Again; the Real
Hoverboards
3. Kathryn Doherty-Chapman, Metro: I ride a bike, why should I care about parking management?
4. Ben Chaney, Better Block PDX: Demonstrating Streets for All People - Better Block PDX’s Experience with
(Temporarily) Transforming Portland’s 3rd Avenue in Old Town.
5. Ray Thomas, Swanson, Thomas, Coon & Newton: Barbur Blvd
-Break6. Ellen Vanderslice: In 4/4 Time: Songs and Poems Inspired by Walking
7. Brad Biddle, OBI: Open Bike Initiative: An Open Platform for Bike Sharing
8. Michael Anderson, Green Lane Project and BikePortland.org, Increasing Public Process with Live On-Street
Demonstrations
9. Chad Tucker, GIS Jammers: Walkway Network Model
10. Helen McConnell, Portland Society
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/ tuesday, march 31st
full-day trainings
*NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide Training- Tuesday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. (Library Room,
advance registration required)
All-day training on the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Urban Bikeway Design
Guide conducted by practitioners working in Portland and nationally to promote and refine best practice
bikeway designs. This will be the fourth consecutive year in which this popular training is being offered as
part of the Active Transportation Summit. It will cover design standards for Bike Lanes, Cycle Tracks, Crossing
Treatments, Bike Boxes, Markings/Legends/Signs, and Bicycle Boulevards.
The training will provide six professional development hours for ITE and for AICP credits. Course has been
reviewed and approved by the Oregon Chapter of ASLA for 6.0 Health, Safety and Welfare PDH for Oregon
Registered Landscape Architects.
Presenters:
Roger Geller, Bicycle Coordinator, City of Portland
Rob Burchfield, Regional Engineerin Director, Toole Design Group and former City of Portland traffic engineer
(Primary leadership role in development of Cities for Cycling initiative and NACTO Guide)
Peter Koonce, Traffic Engineer, Signals, Street Lighting, ITS Division Manager, City of Portland
*NACTO Urban Street Design Guide Training- Tuesday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. (Billiard Room,
advance registration required)
The Urban Street Design Guide is part of a growing movement among cities working to build sustainable and
complete streets. Cities employing these principles are creating a new “DNA” for city streets. This training
will reflect two main intents of the guide: 1) provide an overview of the principles that cities across the US are
currently employing to beneficial effect, and 2) provide the recipes for both quick implementation as well as
enduring design principles for creating complete streets. Cities using these principles and techniques are making
their streets safe and inviting for people walking, shopping, parking and driving in an urban context. The
training will be a combination of presentations and charrette to allow attendees to apply some of the concepts in
the Urban Street Design Guide to redesign and intersection in downtown Portland.
This training will provide six professional development hours for ITE and AICP credits. Course has been reviewed
and approved by the Oregon Chapter of ASLA for 6.0 Health, Safety and Welfare PDH for Oregon Registered
Landscape Architects.
Presenters:
Matthew Roe, Director of the NACTO Designing Cities Initiative
Drusilla Van Hegel, Principal at Nelson Nygaard
Nick Falbo, Senior Planner, Alta Planning + Design
/ statewide meetings
9:00 a.m. – noon: Oregon Bicycle Tourism Partnership (OBTP) Meeting (Card Room)
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Annual Statewide Safe Routes to School Network Meeting (Card Room)
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/ morning sessions and mobile workshop
Fifty Miles or More Down A Country Road- Tuesday, 8:30-10:00 a.m. (Renaissance Room)
Hear about strategies and programs that get people moving in rural and frontier Oregon. Not all communities
have walkable neighborhoods, with many rural residents facing great distances between home, school, work,
shopping, and social activities. Learn about successful ways to get people active during their commute -- when
their commute may be 50 miles or more down a country road. Join us to discuss the built environment and
education and encouragement programs in our small rural communities across the state.
Moderator: Kim Curley, Commute Options (Bend)
Speakers:
tags: rural, trails, Safe Routes to School,
Brian Potwin, Education Coordinator, Commute Options
education, programs, encouragement
Dana Dickman, Associate, Alta Planning and Design
Jenna Stanke Marmon, Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Manager, Jackson County Roads & Parks
Mobile Workshop: The Money Walk: How the Walkability of Streets Improves Retail Business9:00 a.m. - noon (advance registration required; meet outside the hotel at SW 11th and Alder)
This fun and engaging mobile tour will explore how the walkability of a community impacts the retail business
environment. Focusing on different segments of inner Portland, we will explore various urban contexts and their
impact on the business climate. We will discuss topics such as accessibility, safety, amenities, and comfort, and
the issues of density and proximity of people and services and trends that we are seeing in Portland and other
cities in Oregon and the nation. This mobile tour will include walking and riding the Portland streetcar, and will
include conversations with retail business owners and residents along the tour route.
Presenters:
Scott Bricker, America Walks
Robert Ping, Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
Mobile Workshop: Cool School Bike Parking (Bike Ride)- Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. - noon (advance
registration required; meet outside the hotel at SW 11th and Alder)
We all know that good bike parking is key to getting students to bike to school. Join Portland and EugeneSpringfield Safe Routes to School staff on a tour of four schools with a variety of bike facilities. This will also
give you an opportunity to put Eugene’s new bike parking assessment tool into practice. This tour will be at a
relaxed pace. Bring water and snacks if you like. We will be back at the Sentinel in time for lunch.
Presenters:
Scott Cohen, Portland Bureau of Transportation, Active Transportation
tags: SRTS, Safe Routes to School, bike
Shane MacRhodes, Eugene School District 4J Transportation
parking, schools, youth, families, infra-
Emma Newman, SRTS Coordinator
stucture, engineering, encouragement,
Springfield Public School’s Transportation Department
education
New Voices in Active Transportation: Culturally-Specific, Place Based Organizing in Cully, New
Columbia, and the Jade District- Tuesday, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
Join community based organizations APANO, Andando en Bicicletas en Cully, and We All Can Ride as they
discuss their work in bringing new voices into the active transportation conversation. APANO works with the
Asian Pacific Islander community in the Jade District around culturally-specific organizing and advocacy for
traffic safety improvements. Andando en Bicicletas en Cully and We All Can Ride are neighborhood bike
committees in Cully and Portsmouth that focus on addressing barriers to bicycling and active transportation
in their neighborhood. The speakers will discuss how to achieve culturally relevant, active transportation
organizing with underrepresented communities.
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Speakers:
Duncan Hwang, APANO
tags: advocacy, community, equity,
Representatives from Andando en Bicicletas en Cully
diversity, neighborhood, organizing
Representatives from We All Can Ride
/ networking lunch
12:00-1:00 p.m. Governor Ballroom Enjoy a buffet lunch from Jake’s Catering while continuing conversations
with other Summit attendees.
/ afternoon sessions and mobile workshops
Mobile Workshop: The Orange MAX Line as an Active Transportation Corridor: Southern Section
(Walk- with round-trip bus ride from downtown)- Tuesday, 1:15-3:45 p.m. (advance registration
required; meet outside the hotel at SW 11th and Alder)
Portland - Milwaukie Light Rail Line (Orange Line) will open in September. This mobile workshop/tour of the
southern section of the Orange Line will highlight biking and walking connections made by and in conjunction
with the MAX project. A shuttle bus will provide transportation to Milwaukie with a walking tour of Downtown
Milwaukie, and the Trolley Trail at Park Ave Station. Key points will include: Design and safety challenges
for pedestrian and bike improvements connecting the stations, Kellogg Pedestrian Bridge and “festival” street
improvements at Adams St, and how the light rail project integrated with the long-planned Trolley Trail at Park
Ave.
Presenters:
Jeb Doran, TriMet
Stacy Bluhm, City of Milwaukie
Katie Mangle, Alta Planning+Design
Web Design and Marketing Tools for Active Transportation- Tuesday, 1:15-2:45 p.m. (Renaissance
Room)
Effective communication is the foundation of a successful active transportation program. Local design
professionals will share ideas for creating visual explanations that convey the appropriate scope, context and
level of detail to a general audience. Methods discussed will include communicating through print, web and realtime 3d modeling. Presenters will offer case studies and pragmatic advice for big projects as well as quick tips to
hone your personal communication skills. We’ll also discuss the when and how of hiring a professional creative
service versus mining in house talent. Three presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and questions
from the audience.
Moderator: John Landolfe, Oregon Health & Science University
Speakers:
tags: communication, graphic design,
John Landolfe, Oregon Health & Science University
photography, marketing, web, print, 3D,
Josh Cohen, Fat Pencil Studios
writing, speaking
Anne Bothner-By, Alta Planning + Design
Cathy Cibor, Alta Planning + Design
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Mobile Workshop: Connecting Cully: Improving access and adding beauty to pedestrian spaces
though community-led designs- Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. (advance registration required; Walk; Bike
ride to tour site leaves the Sentinel at 1:00 p.m.
Come learn how residents of the Cully community, living in an underserved and diverse Portland
neighborhood, worked with volunteers to transform a well-travelled, but neglected public right of way into
a neighborhood asset. We will begin with a tour of Cully Park and will learn about the development of the
Cully Park Safe Access Project—both, envisioned, planned, and implemented by local community members.
We will then lead into the Cully Adopt-A-Spot project where we will highlight what worked in the communityled design/build process and lessons learned from the experience. Afterward, we will visit the 1-year-old
project site and help the community by getting our hands dirty while helping to “spruce up” the site.
Presenters:
Sandra Koike, Oregon Department of Transportation
tags: equity, communities of color, com-
Tony DeFalco, Verde
munity involvement, design, public right
Caitlin Pope-Daum, Landscape Architect
of way, partnerships, safety, families,
John Shorb, Opsis Architecture
low-income communities, parks
Cary Watters, Native American Youth and Family Center
*Bike Parking Slam: Innovation and Best Practices- Tuesday, 3:00-4:30 p.m. (Renaissance Room)
This interactive roundtable will focus on delivering and managing high capacity, modern bike parking.
Representatives from Oregon Health & Science University, TriMet, Portland State University, City of Portland,
and Go By Bike will share firsthand experience on launching diverse projects including bike & rides,
badge-access facilities, full time valet, small-scale projects, and more--with applications for residential and
commercial spaces. A lively and moderated panel will include opportunities for audience participation and
discussion on working with stakeholders, budget, design, maintenance, operations, users, management,
wayfinding, signage, fees, and predictions for future bike parking.
Roundtable panelists:
Jeff Owen, Active Transportation Planner, TriMet
tags: bike parking, design, management,
John Landolfe, Transportation Options Coordinator,
maintenance, operations, wayfinding,
Oregon Health & Science University
signage, user fees
Kiel Johnson, Owner/Operator of
Go By Bike Bike Valet, South Waterfront
Sarah Figliozzi, Bicycle Program Specialist, Portland Bureau of Transportation
Scott Cohen, Portland Bureau of Transportation
Lindsay Walker, Employee Outreach & Bicycle Program, Go Lloyd
Ian Stude, Director, Transportation & Parking Services, Portland State University
Clint Culpepper, Bike Hub Supervisor, Portland State University
Wishing safe travels home to all!
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