Note: The sessions below are subject to change, as the agenda is still being finalized.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

2:00 – 4:00 PM

  • Kansas Active Transportation Advisory Committee meeting

  • Kansas Safe Routes to School Advisory Committee meeting

4:00 – 6:00 PM

  • Registration table open

  • Traffic garden demonstration project installation: Hotel parking lot

  • Group rides (weather permitting)

    • Lawrence Loop and USBR 55: Amtrak depot to Fields & Ivy Brewery (features raised crossings, exercise equipment, businesses, neighborhood and playground access, K-10 alternative)

    • Lawrence Loop: To Pederson Park (features river path, new tunnels, needed connections)

    • 21st Street Bike Boulevard and Iowa and 19th Street tunnel

    • North Lawrence Levee gravel ride ending at Northside Social

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

    • Vanessa Lamoreaux, Deputy Secretary, KDOT

  • 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 at University of Colorado Denver, director of the CU Denver Human-Centered Transportation program, author of Killed by a Traffic Engineer 

10:15 – 10:30 AM Break

11:15 AM – 12:00 PM

  • Facilitated conversation

    • Wes Marshall

    • 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

  • Transportation Alternatives and Safe Routes to School Grant Application Workshop

    • Examples of what an application might look like and eligible uses

    • Recommended education and encouragement activities