NACTO Designing Cities 2016 Seattle September 26 29 nacto.org/conference Now in its fifth year, the NACTO Designing Cities conference is the nation's premier gathering of transportation leaders and practitioners from across the country. Last year, over 650 transportation leaders from across the country joined for on the street WalkShops, plenaries, guidance, highly targeted workshops, and networking opportunities. How could your city benefit?
Schedule: Sunday, September 25 12PM 4PM WalkShop Seattle Summer Parkways: Car Free Streets Schedule: Monday, September 26 8:30AM 12:30PM Workshops Global Street Design Guide Training 8:30am 12:30pm Vision Zero Network Focus Cities Meeting 9am 12:30pm by invitation only How to Make the Bike Share Planning Process Work for Everyone 10:00am 12:30pm 2:30PM 3:30PM Opening Plenary 4:00PM 5:30PM Breakout Sessions Automated Vehicles: An Opportunity for our Cities Using Data to Get to Vision Zero Cutting Edge Agencies: How Organizational Structure Enables Projects to Get Done, and Done Well Strategic Communications: How to Reap Dividends from a Successful Marketing Strategy Engineers: Your City s Problem Solvers Road Safety: A Global Perspective 6:30PM 9:00PM Opening Reception
Schedule: Tuesday, September 27 8:30AM 9:30AM Breakfast & Morning Plenary 8:30AM 9:30AM Breakout Sessions Ride Hailing Services: Opportunities & Challenges for Cities Connections: Can Our Public Transportation Infrastructure Also Foster Public Life? Leveraging City Purchasing Power for Vision Zero Getting the Most from Your Data: Using Project Evaluations to Bolster Public Support Delivering Better Projects Quicker: From Project to Process The Six Ingredients for Equitable Bike Share Bringing Protected Bike Infrastructure to the Next Level Running Better Buses: Increasing Reliability Systemwide 11:45AM 12:45PM Lunch Keynote 1:15PM 3:15PM WalkShops Seattle Center: A Northwest Icon Sensors, Cameras, and Data: Improving Safety and Mobility Helping Buildings Interact with the Street Off Street Parking: Building Community Support Beneath the Streets: Hollow Sidewalks and Historic Passageways High Tech Cycling in South Lake Union Take the Bike to the Train: Integrating Multimodal Trips Designing for Pedestrians, Bikes, and Bees Rapid Implementation vs. Capital Construction: What s Appropriate Where? Channel The Rain: Green Streets
Integrating the Streetcar into an International Neighborhood Olmsted s Park Plan: 113 Years Later It s a Street. It s a Park. It s Bell Street! Building a Platinum Walk Friendly Community Improving Transportation Through Technology 1% Investment + 40 Years = A Lot of Public Art Painted Intersections and Public Space Temporary or Permanent? The Advantages of Both Approaches Pronto s Bike Share Shop Multi Context Cycling: From Neighborhood Streets to Light Rail Creating Transit Priority Streets, and Riders, in South Lake Union Micro Spaces: Seattle s Parklets and Streateries Before, During and After: A Street Transformation In Progress 72 Hours to Safety: Rainier Avenue Rechannelization Remove the Alaskan Way Viaduct, Transform Seattle s Waterfront Walking Tour of Seattle s Bike Infrastructure Hollow Sidewalks with Modern Streetcars Downtown Seattle: Blending Streets, Parks, and Public Space Festival Streets: Community Centers 3:30PM 4:15PM Meet the Cities 4:30PM 6:00PM Breakout Sessions Hack your State DOT: Practical Design for Transportation Systems Transportation: Creating a Place Ballot Initiatives and Bond Measures: Funding a Transportation Vision From a Trickle to a Stream: Achieving Major Bike Mode Shift
Who s In The Room: Working with Community Partners to Deliver Better Projects Keeping Everyone Moving: Managing Travel Demand in Puget Sound Shared Goals: Moving People by Combining the Strengths of DOTs and Transit Agencies Paving for Way for Safe Streets: The Role of Political Leadership Schedule: Wednesday, September 28 8:00AM 9:00AM Breakfast 9:00AM 12:30PM NACTO Camp A participant led unconference with three sessions. 1:15PM 3:15PM: WalkShops Seattle Center: A Northwest Icon Sensors, Cameras, and Data: Improving Safety and Mobility Helping Buildings Interact with the Street Off Street Parking: Building Community Support Beneath the Streets: Hollow Sidewalks and Historic Passageways Integrating the Streetcar into an International Neighborhood It s a Street. It s a Park. It s Bell Street! Building a Platinum Walk Friendly Community Take the Bike to the Train: Integrating Multimodal Trips Designing for Pedestrians, Bikes, and Bees Rapid Implementation vs. Capital Construction: What s Appropriate Where? Channel The Rain: Green Streets Creating Transit Priority Streets, and Riders, in South Lake Union Micro Spaces: Seattle s Parklets and Streateries Before, During and After: A Street Transformation In Progress
Improving Transportation Through Technology 1% Investment + 40 Years = A Lot of Public Art Painted Intersections and Public Space Temporary or Permanent? The Advantages of Both Approaches Pronto s Bike Share Shop Multi Context Cycling: From Neighborhood Streets to Light Rail 72 Hours to Safety: Rainier Avenue Rechannelization Remove the Alaskan Way Viaduct, Transform Seattle s Waterfront Walking Tour of Seattle s Bike Infrastructure Hollow Sidewalks with Modern Streetcars Downtown Seattle: Blending Streets, Parks, and Public Space Festival Streets: Community Centers High Tech Cycling in South Lake Union 3:30PM 5:00PM: Breakout Sessions Shared Mobility Planning: Lessons from Seattle Iteratively Building: Quick Build Projects as a Pathstone to Permanent Design Wait, No One Told Me About This: From Outreach to Engagement Curb Space: An Asset Hidden in Plain Sight Measuring what Matters: New Metrics for a Multimodal Future Green Streets, Complete Streets High Demand Corridors: Integrating Bikes and Transit on the Same Street Globe Hop: Inspiring Lessons from Around the World 5:15PM 6:00PM: Closing Plenary
Schedule: Thursday, September 29 8AM 1PM Choice of full day tour of Portland, Oregon (add l cost) or WalkShop: West Seattle Boat and Bike Bikes & Birds: See Seattle s Spectacular Avian Diversity Waterfront and Locks and Greenways: Seattle s Maritime Environment Sea Kayak Tour of Seattle An Island in Puget Sound Joins the Bike and Pedestrian Revolution Quick Build Trail: The Cross Kirkland Corridor Photos: Adam Coppola Photography, courtesy of PeopleForBikes