Tuesday, October 28, 2025

2:00 – 4:00 PM

• Kansas Active Transportation Advisory Committee meeting

• Kansas Safe Routes to School Advisory Committee meeting

3:00 – 6:00 PM

• Registration table open

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

  • Jump to the bottom of this page for more information!

6:00 PM

• Dinner: On your own, or with organized restaurant excursion

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 (bring your own bike and helmet)

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 (1 CM Credit)

  • 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 (0.75 CM Credit)

  • Panelists:

  • Wes Marshall, PhD, PE, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Denver

  • David Cronin, PE, City Engineer, City of Lawrence

  • Haley Dougherty, PE, RSP1, KDOT State Highway Safety Engineer

  • Facilitator:

  • Allison Bruner, PE, Transportation Engineer, Burns & McDonnell

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 (3 CM Credits)

  • Bring your walking shoes for this highly interactive workshop! If walking is not an option for you, we will offer a tabletop version of the workshop at the hotel.

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: On your own, or with organized restaurant excursion

Thursday, October 30, 2025

7:00 – 8:00 AM

• Registration and coffee

• Vendor tables

8:00 – 9:00 AM

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

  • Strong Towns

• 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 (0.75 CM Credits)

  • Tammy Sufi, Toole Design

9:30 – 10:30 AM

• Human Centered Streets and Economic Benefits (0.5 CM Credits)

  • Michael Kelley, BikeWalkKC

• Trails and Gravel Routes: Maximizing trails efforts to promote biking (0.5 CM Credits)

  • Kelli Mark, Sunflower Foundation

  • Jeff Carroll, Ottawa Bike and Trail

  • LeLan Dains, Emporia Spanish Speakers

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

• Closing keynote (0.75 CM Credits)

  • Kim Negrete, Multimodal Transportation Safety Planner, WAMPO

• Concluding remarks and discussion

12:00 – 2:00 PM

• Lunch break

• Vendor tables

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