2023 Missouri Active Transportation Summit

THE 2023 SUMMIT IS OVER!

Visit the current year's Missouri Active Transportation Summit page 

Watch video of the 2023 Summit Sessions (Youtube)

Bicycling, walking, and trails mean business in Missouri 

Friday, August 11th, 2023, 9:00am-5:00pm

In Person

Jefferson City Municipal Complex - Jefferson City, Missouri
(location/parking map)

AND

Online Virtual Conference (Selected Sessions)
(how to connect online)

Presented by

The Association of Bicycle & Pedestrian Professionals, Missouri Chapter
Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation
City of Jefferson City, Missouri

Summit registration is NOW OPEN - Click here to register!
 

Certificate for Continuing Ed/Professional Development Hours provided - available at the registration desk for in-person attendees & via email for virtual attendees

2023 Summit Sessions & Schedule

• Full Summit Program Booklet (24 page PDF) - full information about sessions, presenters, bios, etc
   
• Short Summit Program Outline (4 page PDF) - just the session schedule and basics, including how to join the Summit online

At the 2023 Summit, you'll enjoy these sessions and presenters (full details in the Program Booklet above):

·        Jefferson City Thursday Evening Community Bike Ride (6:00pm Thursday evening, start/end at Last Flight Brewing Company at 732 Heisinger Road) - This is Jefferson City's regular twice-monthly community ride. The ride is 10 miles in length and designed for cyclists of all ability levels. Any Summit participants in town Thursday evening are welcome to join!

·       Bike TO the Summit (depart 8:15am from Quigg Commons, 1121 4th St, Jefferson City, MO 65101) - David Bange, City Engineer, City of Jefferson

·      ** Keynote Address - RAISING Warsaw: How Warsaw Missouri has built itself into one of the pre-eminent rural bicycle/pedestrian/trails communities in the U.S., and how its new $25 million RAISE grant will transform the community and the region - Randy Pogue, City Administrator, City of Warsaw

·      ** Hands-free Missouri: Passing Missouri's new hands-free/distraction-free driving law - Taylor March, Executive Director, Missourians for Responsible Transportation; Nick Chabarria, Spokesperson, AAA Automobile Club Of Missouri

·       This Isn't Your Typical Industrial Park: Industry plus active transportation - Denny Blind, Senior Landscape Architect, Olsson Active Transportation Group; Kyle McLaughlin, Lead Planner, Olsson Active Transportation Group

·       Round Table: Save Your Life, Ride a Bike and Tandem Cycling for Individuals with Disabilities – An Achilles St. Louis/Cycle St. Louis Partnership - Sean Connell, Avid Cyclist; Hugh Share, Volunteer, Cycle St. Louis; Annie Donnell, Chapter Lead, St. Louis Chapter, Achilles International

·       **Universal Mobility: Serving all users of all physical and cognitive abilities, and seamlessly connecting all transportation modes - Enjoli Dixon, Project Associate, National Center of Mobility Management, The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center, Chief Program Manager, TransitCon

·       Trail Building Tips and Lessons Learned - from 15 years of trail building in Kansas City - Wes Minder, Director, Water Services, City of Kansas City, Missouri

·       Reclaim Asphalt Now! - Creative traffic calming projects - DuRon Netsell, Founder & Principal, Street Smarts Design + Build

·       **It All Starts With A Dream: Creating a 200+ mile multistate trail - Denny Blind, Senior Landscape Architect, Olsson Active Transportation Group; Kyle McLaughlin, Lead Planner, Olsson Active Transportation Group

·       Walk Audits: How and why they can improve safety, walkability, and bikeability - Dave Roberts, Sr. Vice President of Planning & Business Development, Crafton Tull

·       Century Rides Around the Country - Dave Wedemeyer, Avid Cyclist

·       **SafeAcross - A Ready To Go Crosswalk Safety Program that can be Implemented in Your Community - Mandy Buettgen, Program Manager, SGF Yields, City of Springfield - a followup to the 2022 Keynote address

·       What’s All the Buzz About Electric Bikes? - Mandy Bodily-Bartrum, Co-Owner, Juiced Wheels; Brett Bartrum Co-Owner, Juiced Wheels

·       Active Transportation in the Capital: Improving bicycling, walking, and transit in the Jefferson City area - Katrina Williams, Senior Transportation Planner, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization; David Bange, City Engineer, City of Jefferson; Kevin Schwartz, Outdoor Program Manager, Jefferson City Parks

·       Walking Tour - Downtown Jefferson City and Adrian’s Island - Katrina Williams, Senior Transportation Planner, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

·       Biking Tour of Jefferson City - David Bange, City Engineer, City of Jefferson

·       Social Hour: Sweet Smoke BBQ, 127 E. High St

Note that sessions in Council Chambers, marked with asterisks (**) above, will be broadcast for Virtual Summit attendees to view. Others will not be broadcast.

2023 Keynote Address: Revitalizing a Rural Community: 1,000 feet at a time

Randy Pogue

Randy Pogue, City Administrator, City of Warsaw. Randy Pogue has been with the City of Warsaw for 26 years and has overseen all construction and revitalization efforts. He was originally hired as City Planner and Economic Developer and has written all the grants that have led the revitalization of the community. With his promotion to Administrator, he retained his original duties.

Charles LePage

Charles LePage, P.E., LePage Engineering, LLC, On-Call City Engineer, City of Warsaw. Charles is the On-Call City Engineer for the City of Warsaw and assisted Randy with his RAISE Grant applications for 2023, as well as many of the previous years and versions of the major federal infrastructure grants. He is a professional civil engineer with 35 years of experience in planning, design, and management of public infrastructure projects. Charles has provided diverse engineering services for Warsaw, Missouri since 2003 and is the on-call city engineer. Previous and current projects include complete streets, trails, lighting, parking lots, retaining walls, drinking water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater improvements. Charles is president of LePage Engineering, LLC.

Lauren Moore

Lauren Moore is a professional engineer in the water resources field for Burns & McDonnell with 11 years of policy, planning, analysis, design, and construction experience. Her focus has been in stormwater management and green infrastructure, including the appropriate stormwater and civil infrastructure policy, design tools, and funding mechanisms to build resilient, sustainable, and maintainable systems.

Kylie Clark

Kylie Clark is an urban planner focused on implementing holistic stormwater management across policies and projects for municipalities and other agencies. In Kylie’s time with Burns & McDonnell, her work has included policy writing, development code review, grant writing, MS4 permit compliance, and green infrastructure planning from the project level to the watershed scale. Kylie holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and a master’s in urban planning, both from the University of Kansas.

About the Eighth Annual Missouri Active Transportation Summit

We invite you to join us for the 2023 Missouri Active Transportation Summit--planned for Friday, August 11th in-person in Jefferson City AND with a virtual option again this year--where we will be sharing ideas for making our communities more active, vibrant, healthy, and economically sustainable through bicycling, walking, and trails.

 

 

Registration is now open!

Time, Location, Details

2023 Missouri Active Transportation Summit, August 11th, 2023, 9:00am-5:00pm in Jefferson City

• Summit Registration is now open!

Location:

• In-person location: 
  Jefferson City Municipal Complex
  320 E McCarty St 
  Jefferson City, MO
  Registration and first session will be in the Christy Municipal Building, 320 E McCarty. If you enter the Municipal Building from McCarty Street, registration and the City Council Chambers will be nearby.  Bike parking is also in that area.
• Virtual attendees, see below for instructions to connect. Note that the broadcast will include the Keynote Session and ONE selected breakout session from each period (the session held in Council Chambers - see schedule above).
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How to join the Summit online

	Web link:	Meeting ID & Pass:	Phone # & Phone Conference ID:
Microsoft Teams connection info:	Click here to join the meeting via Teams	ID: 236 208 508 896 Pass: froVLB	1-872-242-9031Phone Conference ID: 571 641 642#
YOUTUBE LINK	https://www.youtube.com/@cojits/streams	Channel: cojits (City of Jefferson) Tab: LIVE

 

Details: How to Join the Summit Online

 

You can connect via Microsoft Teams OR watch on YouTube OR listen in via a phone call.

 

To watch on YouTube, just follow the link above and look for the live Summit stream.

 

On the YouTube app, search for “cojits” to find the City of Jefferson channel, tap the City of Jefferson channel to enter it, then tap the LIVE tab, then look for the Summit stream under that tab.

 

To participate via Teams, first install the Teams app on your mobile phone or computer. Create or login to your (free) account. Then you can click the link to join the meeting.

 

OR click the Teams link on a computer, and then choose to join the meeting on your web browser – which does not require installing an app or logging in. (This option will work on a computer only – the browser version of Teams will not run on a smart phone.)

 

 

To listen via a phone call, just dial the number above and enter the Conference ID when prompted.

 

About last year's Summit:

 

• 2022 Summit web site
• Powerpoints from 2022 Summit sessions
• The full 2022 Summit program, schedule, and session listing

Summit Partners & Supporters

Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals - Missouri Chapter
Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services	Missouri Complete Streets

Sponsor the Summit

You or your organization or business could sponsor the 2023 Missouri Active Transportation Summit! Reach an audience of professionals across Missouri at any level that works for you and your business.

Sponsor levels and benefits are in our sponsorship packet--click to download (PDF).

• Summit registration is now open!
• Submit your Summit Session Proposal here - due Friday, June 9th.

 Presented by: The Association of Bicycle & Pedestrian Professionals, Missouri Chapter - Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation - Missouri Complete Streets - Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services - City of Jefferson