2023 Programme
If you would like to present a paper, chair a session or speak at Walking + Cycling Innovations 2023, please contact Juliana O'Rourke.
Please note the the programme remains in development
08.45
Registration open - Tea & Coffee served in the Pioneer Room exhibition area
09.30
The Pendulum Suite
Getting serious about walking
Welcome from Richard Nickson, Programme Director, Active Travel, Transport for Greater Manchester
Chair: Stephen Edwards, CEO, Living Streets
Jim Walker, Founder, Walk 21
Brian Deegan, Head of Inspection, Active Travel England
Daniel Raven-Ellison, Founder and CEO, Slow Ways
Kris Beuret, Research Lead, Temple & Social Research Associates
Followed by Q and A
11.00
Morning break: Tea & Coffee served in the Pioneer Room exhibition area
11.30
The Pendulum Suite
Planning for activity
Chair: Claire Stocks, independent consultant supporting GM's Active Travel Commissioner
Active design: planning for health
Pauline Shearer and Christopher Carroll, Planning Managers, Sport England
Applying connected cycling sensor data for cycling infrastructure design and maintenance: an international perspective
Irene McAleese Co-founder & CSO, See.Sense
Locking in active travel
Katherine Jacob, London Manager, Living Streets
Improved active travel infrastructure – reducing entitlement to free school transport
Liz Davidson, Chief Marketing Officer, QRoutes
Creating innovative walking and cycling spaces: rural vs urban cityscapes
Hardeep Dhand, Associate, and Niccolo Conti, Principal Engineer, Project Centre
Followed by Q and A
Cotton Theatre
Technology, data and toolkits
Chair: Ann Mulhaney,
Centre for Digital Innovation (CDI), Manchester
Innovation in Active Mode Appraisal – Programme Entry Appraisal Tool (PEAT)
Rachel Beesley, Senior Transport Planner (Appraisal) at Transport for Greater Manchester
Essex Pedal Power: Use of GPS sensors to inform infrastructure planning and behaviour change
Bernardo Russo, Evaluation Researcher and Sarah Jakobson, Sustainable Travel Planning Officer, Essex County Council
Greater Manchester’s data-driven active travel mission: how to audit a city region’s walking and cycling network
Florian Langstraat, Principal Transport Planner, Mott MacDonald & Dominic Smith, Active Travel Network Development and Design Assurance Manager, Transport for Greater Manchester
Supporting safer cycling and walking with innovative AI technology
Charlie Richards-Gladstone, Strategic Partner Lead, VivaCity
uMove: the future of active travel with AI
Iona Chandler, Partnership Manager, and Simon Tricker, Co-Founder, Urban Tide
Citizen Science: better for biking
Will Caiger, Head of Projects,
Love to Ride
Followed by Q and A
Graphene Suite
What local Councillors need to know
Led by Oliver Davey, Co-Founder + Head of Design Engineering, Urban Movement
This session will explore how to turn ambitious policy into action, overcoming:
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failure to communicate the importance of plans to nervous councillors
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unconvinced colleagues
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a sceptical public
Panellists:
Councillor Rowena Champion, Executive Member for Environment, Air Quality & Transport, LB Islington
Councillor James Gleave, Flitwick Town Council
Councillor Mike McCusker,
Lead Member for Planning, Transport and Sustainable Development, Salford City Council
Councillor Mandie Shilton Godwin, Chair – Environment, Climate Change and Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee, Manchester City Council
Followed by Q and A
13:00
Lunch served in the Pioneer Room exhibition area
14.00
The Pendulum Suite
Encouraging bicycle use
What the public and private sectors can – and should – do....
Facilitator: Chris Leakey, Managing Director, Manchester Bikes
Julian Scriven, Managing Director, Brompton Bike Hire
Stephen Crick, Account Manager, Green Commute Initiative
Tim Hammond, Co Founder, Bike Flex
Jeyda Heselton, Co-Founder, fettle
Phillip Ellis, Co-Founder & CEO, Beryl
Followed by Q and A
Cotton Theatre
Design and infrastructure
Chair: Hayley Fails, Head of Infrastructure & Environment, Manchester City Council
HS2 active travel planning
Hassan Mohamed, Active Travel Lead, HS2
Using drones and artificial intelligence to assess the effect of the CYCLOPS junction design in Greater Manchester
Anne Clarke, Cycling & Walking Evaluation Officer, Transport for Greater Manchester; David Pain, Founder & Asset Digitisation Specialist , SVL Services; & Dave Stevens, Active Travel Project Manager, Transport for Greater Manchester
Pedestrian detection and metrics and their use in the optimisation of signalised crossings
Andrew Caleya Chetty, CEO, Starling Technologies
Designing inclusive & accessible cycle parking
Kay Inckle, Campaigns & Policy Manager, Wheels for Wellbeing
Resolving the conflict between bike lanes and bus stops
Diego Dávila Graf, International Market Development, Pittman
Alternative cycle gates
Ashley Newnham, Principal Engineer, WSP
Followed by Q and A
Graphene Suite
Micromobility
Chair: Lamprini Papafoti,
Senior Future Mobility Developer – Behaviour Change, Transport for West Midlands
Supercharging micro-mobility in Camden: innovative approaches to a new form of city transport
Sam Margolis, Head of Transport Strategy and Projects, London Borough of Camden
Greater integration of micromobility into the transport network
Alex Bertram, Senior Consultant, AECOM
The future of e-scooters
Patrick Donnelly, Head of Policy, Beryl
Followed by Q and A
Communicating with citizens and stakeholders
Securing buy-in for improved walking networks
Brett Little , UK People Movement Lead, Arup
How could you put me in that position? Balancing the complexity of actual and perceived safety for passengers
Marc Winsland, Business Development Manager, Passenger
Followed by Q and A
15.30
Afternoon break: Tea & Coffee served in the Pioneer Room exhibition area
16.00
The Pendulum Suite
Active travel: achieving public priorities – a panel discussiom
Chair: Rosslyn Colderley, Director, England North, Sustrans
Ben Plowden, Chair, Transport Planning Society
Philip Amaral, Director of Policy and Development, European Cyclists' Federation
Phillip Ellis, Co-Founder & CEO, Beryl
Followed by Q and A
16.45
Event Close
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