Summit Registration is Open!

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

2:00 – 4:00 PM

4:00 – 6:00 PM

  • Registration table open

  • Traffic garden demonstration project installation: Hotel parking lot

  • Group bike rides (weather permitting; bring your own bike and helmet)

6:00 PM

  • Organized restaurant excursions: Meet in hotel lobby

4:45 – 6:30 PM Break for dinner and networking

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

8:00 – 9:30 AM

  • Registration and coffee

8:00 – 9:00 AM

  • Bike to school event: With Limestone Community School in East Lawrence

9:30 – 10:00 AM

  • Welcome

    • Mike Dever, Mayor, City of Lawrence

    • KDOT Representative

  • Active Transportation in Kansas: Updates from around the state

    • Kansas Active Transportation Committee Members

9:00 – 9:15 AM Break

10:00 – 11:00 AM

  • Keynote

    • Wes Marshall, PhD, PE, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Author of Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System 

10:15 – 10:30 AM Break

11:15 AM – 12:00 PM

  • Facilitated conversation

    • Wes Marshall, PhD, PE, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Author of Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System 

    • David Cronin, City of Lawrence engineer

    • Haley Dougherty, KDOT engineer

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Break for lunch and networking

12:00 – 2:00 PM

  • Lunch break: Meet in the lobby for organized restaurant excursions

  • Traffic garden: Touch and ride an e-bike and cargo bike

  • Vendor tables

2:00 – 5:00 PM

  • Crash Analysis Studio Workshop: Presentation and crash site visits led by Strong Towns

2:15 – 2:30 PM Break

5:00 – 7:00 PM

  • Evening gathering and reception

  • Vendor tables

  • Traffic garden: Touch and ride an e-bike and cargo bike

  • Screening of From Rails to Trails PBS Documentary: View the trailer.

3:30 – 3:45 PM Break

7:00 PM

  • Dinner: Meet in the lobby for organized restaurant excursions

Thursday, October 30, 2025

7:00 – 8:00 AM

  • Registration and coffee

8:00 – 9:00 AM

  • Day 2 Welcome: Recap of Crash Analysis Studio and identified solutions

    • Jay Aber, HDR

  • Active Transportation 101 and Tools to Engage Leaders Locally and Statewide: The connection between active transportation and improved physical and mental health, the economy, the environment, quality of life, vibrant neighborhoods, and safety for all

    • Tammy Sufi, Toole Design

9:30 – 10:30 AM

  • Human Centered Streets and Economic Benefits

    • Michael Kelley, BikeWalkKC

  • Trails and Gravel Routes: Maximizing trails efforts to promote biking

    • Kelli Mark, Sunflower Foundation

    • Jeff Carroll, Ottawa Bike and Trail

    • LeLan Dains, Emporia Spanish Speakers

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

  • Closing keynote

    • Kim Negrete, Multimodal Transportation Safety Planner, WAMPO

  • Concluding remarks and discussion

12:00 – 2:00 PM

  • Lunch break

2:00 – 4:00 PM

Optional Workshops

  • Kansas Safe Routes to School Workshop

    • Background, latest developments, ways to build a SRTS community, more!

  • Transportation Alternatives Grant Workshop

    • Information on the upcoming Call for Projects and how to develop a strong application

Bike Rides

Lawrence Loop and USBR 55

October 28, 2025 - 4pm

Amtrak Depot to Fields and Ivy - features: raised crossings, exercise equipment, businesses, neighborhood and playground access, K-10 alternative

Lawrence Loop – to Peterson Park

October 28, 2025 - 4pm

River path, new tunnels, needed connections. 6th to river trail past Sandra Shaw park, get to Michigan, take bike lane to Loop, continue to Peterson Park, return the same way.

21st Street Bike Boulevard and Iowa and 19th tunnel

October 28, 2025 - 4pm

21st street from Barker to Ousdahl, Ousdahl to 19th, 19th to the tunnel under Iowa, if construction complete, take route through KU Innovation Park to 21st, cross Iowa at the light and return on the bike boulevard. If construction, return on 19th to Naismith, south on Naismith to neighborhood cut through, zig zag back to east Lawrence neighborhood.

North Lawrence Levee gravel ride ending at Northside Social

October 28, 2025 - 4pm

Springhill Suites over the Kansas River bridge to the levee trail that is parallel to the Kansas river for an inspiring view.  Take the levee trail to the end at Alexander Rd (optional Lawrence River Trail exploration for those that are MTB curious). Left/west onto Alexander road. Left/west onto N 1700 Rd. Left turn/South turn onto 1600 rd. Right or west on 1650 rd. Left or west on N 9th St for one block. Right turn/west onto Locust St all the way to Northside Social. 8.8 miles. 5.1 miles of gravel.   https://ridewithgps.com/routes/52116729

Group Ride Lead: Martin

Bonus gravel loop: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/52117400