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Date(s): March 23, 2006
Location: Audio/Web Broadcast
Cost: Members: $150.00
Non Members: $200.00
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Description: With national energy, environmental, and financial concerns rising, enhanced community mobility is a growing need.

Is your community providing safe, efficient and economical transit options? Are pedestrians and bicyclists welcome on the road?

Learn from leading experts how to implement a comprehensive mobility plan to include:

• Bicycle pathways, pedestrian walkways, and transit lanes
• How political, funding, and operational entities need to work together to gain maximum efficiency
• Design issues in both new and established communities
• The importance of proper planning and how it affects the wider community

This program is co-sponsored by the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations.



This program has been approved for .2 CEUs or 2 PDHs. The form to request these credits is included in the handouts for this program.
Speaker: Dan Burden

Senior Urban Designer/Executive Director of Walkable Communities, Inc.

Dan Burden has been on the road for ten years helping villages, towns, cities and regions get their feet back on the ground. Since 1996 Dan has served 2,000 communities in all parts of North America. Dan photographs and learns from each community he visits. A number of towns now bring Dan back for validation and grade cards, guiding their road to economic and community health. Dan is author of three books on street making and traffic calming.
Some of Dan's highlights include:
• Before starting Walkable Communities, Dan served as the bicycle and pedestrian coordinator for Florida DOT (1980-1996)
• In 2005 Dan Burden joined with other specialists at Glatting Jackson, a firm recognized for its excellence in livable communities design and innovative urban transportation planning and design services.
• Time Magazine listed Dan as one of the six most important civic innovators in the world. The Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Sciences) selected Dan as its Distinguished Lecturer in 2001.
Speaker: Harrison B. Rue

Harrison B. Rue is Executive Director of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission and the Charlottesville-Albemarle MPO. He is a planner, builder, developer, trainer, and founder of the Citizen Planner Institute. Rue has over 30 years of hands-on experience in construction, development, preservation, transportation planning, policy implementation, and public involvement. Rue served as Faculty for the National Governors’ Association Policy Academy on Smart Growth, was a panelist for ULI Policy Forums on Smart Growth Transportation for Suburban Greenfields and on Pedestrian-Oriented Development, and conducted an FHWA Scanning Tour of western states projects that link transportation and land use. He is a member of US EPA’s National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, Board Secretary and Technical Committee Chair of the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Transportation Committee Chair for the Virginia Association of Planning District Commissions, and serves on the Virginia Transportation Planning Research Advisory Council and the VTrans 2025 Multimodal Committee.
Speaker: Christina Watson

Christina Watson is an Associate Transportation Planner at the Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC). Her current responsibilities at TAMC include managing the Caltrain Extension to Monterey County project, administering the Transportation for Livable Communities Transit-Oriented Development incentive grant program, and acting as the staff legislative liaison for TAMC’s state and federal legislative advisors.

In the past, she also directed TAMC's Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities program, including facilitating monthly community advisory committee meetings and implementing the 2002 and 2003 Bike Week events. In 2004, she supervised the environmental review of the proposed 14-year expenditure plan for a half-cent local transportation sales tax and regional development impact fee. Ms. Watson is pursuing a Master of Science in Transportation Management (MSTM) degree at the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) to further develop her understanding of transportation planning principles and methods.
Speaker: Marlene Nagel

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Community Development Director, Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas City, Missouri
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