Be part of the growing movement around active transportation by joining us at the third Active Transportation Summit on Thursday, May 23, 2019, at The Rochester Riverside Hotel.

This year’s theme, Ideas into Motion builds on the work accomplished since the last summit was held in 2013. The Summit is a forum for a unique crossroads of professionals and advocates from multiple sectors to convene and collaborate to advance active transportation and recreation opportunities for people of all ages and abilities across the Finger Lakes Region.

Our keynote address will be delivered by Mark Fenton, a dynamic speaker and public health, planning and transportation consultant to communities around the country. Mark is a Brockport local and has worked with many municipalities across upstate New York. In line with our theme of getting people moving, Mark will also be conducting a walk audit with some of the conference attendees during a breakout session.

Our plenary speaker is Paul Beyer, director of Smart Growth Planning for the New York State Department of State. He will speak about how New York's age-friendly designation overlaps with Smart Growth community design principles and its impact on transportation systems, active living and public health.

We will also offer twelve breakout sessions covering a variety of topics around active transportation and recreation. These include: women and bike commuting; a group bike ride with Pace Bike Share; kids on the move: active transportation to, from and at school; future streets; designing complete streets; livable communities: great places for all ages; and transportation, land use and poverty.

Registration includes breakfast and lunch. If you would like to register and pay by check, please mail a check for $45 by May 20 to: Common Ground Health, 1150 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607. Please include a note with registrant name(s), email or phone number, and write that the check is for registration for the Active Transportation Summit. A limited number of scholarship tickets are available; contact Hannah Shippee at melissa.pennise@commongroundhealth.org or call 585-224-3131 for details.

This event is sponsored by Common Ground Health, Reconnect Rochester, the Rochester Cycling Alliance, the Genesee Transportation Council and the Monroe County Department of Transportation.

Agenda:

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and breakfast

9:00 – 9:10 Welcoming, opening remarks
Wade Norwood
CEO of Common Ground Health

9:10 – 10:15 Keynote: Community Design for the triple bottom line: Economic, environmental and public health
Mark Fenton
public health, planning and transportation consultant
adjunct associate professor at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:45 Breakout session 1

Opening eyes with a walk
Mark Fenton
Jason Haremza, AICP, Senior Planner/Urban Design Specialist, City of Rochester

Good planning leads to good projects: Developing municipal active transportation plans
James Stack, Genesee Transportation Council executive director
Kerry Ivers, director of development services at Town of Irondequoit
Scott Copey, department of development services director at Town of Greece
Eric Williams, assistant to the commissioner of public works, Town of Perinton

Livable communities: Great places for all ages
Bill Armbruster, senior advisor, AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities
Ann Marie Cook, president and CEO of Lifespan of Greater Rochester
Julie Allen Aldrich, director, Monroe County Office for the Aging
Moderator: Patrick Morris, director, Livable Communities Initiative

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch – Riverview Ballroom

12:45 – 1:30 Plenary: Age-friendly NY/Health Across All Policies
Paul Beyer, director of Smart Growth Planning, NYS Department of State

1:30 – 1:45 Break

1:45 – 2:45 Breakout session 2

Design matrix toolkit – measuring physical tradeoffs between competing modes for complete streets (interactive session)
Michael Rutkowski, P.E., AICP, board member – national complete streets coalition and principle of Stantec

The role of health impact in active transportation planning
Ben Woelk, health and community infrastructure analyst, Common Ground Health and founder of Slow Road Consulting
Frances Gotcsik, senior consultant and director of programs and policy, Parks and Trails NY

Women and bike commuting: Why it’s different and why it matters
Natasha Dailey and Susan Levin, founding organizers, Rochester Women’s Bike Festival

Pace Bike Share group ride
Jesse Peers, cycling coordinator, Reconnect Rochester, and certified instructor, League of American Bicyclists
Karl Alexander, senior market manager, PACE

2:45 – 2:50 Break

2:50 – 3:50 Breakout session 3

Kids on the Move: Active Transportation to school, from school and at school
Doug Kelley, Rochester Cycling Alliance
Tracey Austin, League of American Bicyclists certified instructor
Paul Barrows, DreamBikes
Glenn Cerosaletti, Bike to School Day event organizer
Moderated by: Brian Kehoe, facilities planner, Rochester City School District

Future Streets
Scott MacRae, M.D., Rochester Cycling Alliance
Renee Stetzer, Reconnect Rochester
Nabil Nasr, associate provost and director of the Rochester Institute of Technology Golisano Institute for Sustainability
Mike Thurston, research professor and director, Center of Excellence in Advanced & Sustainable Manufacturing, Rochester Institute of Technology Golisano Institute for Sustainability

Transportation, Land Use and Poverty
Pete Nabozny, Reconnect Rochester

3:55 – 4:10 Closing Remarks
Maria Furgiele, executive director, Community Design Center of Rochester