Agenda

Please note that this agenda is subject to change as we adjust to our rescheduled conference date October 14-16, 2020.

Wednesday

	General Session	Bolivar A	Bolivar B	Bolivar C	Montecarlo A	Montecarlo B	Mobile Workshop
Noon – 6:00 pm	Registration Table Open
1:00 – 3:00 pm		Sustaining and Growing Your Trail Program: Ann Baker Easely	Waterloo Greenway: For the Benefit of All	Go Beyond The Road With TxDOT	Making Bicyclists and Pedestrians COUNT in Texas: Why Count	FHWA Bikeway Selection Guide	Pilot your Destinations
3:15 – 5:00 pm		Continued: Sustaining and Growing Your Trail Program: Ann Baker Easely	Impactful Transportation Engineering	Trail Inception and Management	Continued: Making Bicyclists and Pedestrians COUNT in Texas: Verifying Counts	Caracara Trails Taking Flight	Continued: Pilot your Destinations
5:00 – 6:00 pm	Welcome Reception

Thursday

	General Session	Bolivar A	Bolivar B	Bolivar C	Montecarlo A	Montecarlo B	Mobile Workshop
7:00 – 8:50 am	• Registration table open • Breakfast • Opening Announcements • Keynote Address: Half a Century of Playing in the Woods and Getting Paid for It Charlie Dundas
9:00 – 10:15 am		Getting It Built – Strategies to Fund Trail and Bikeways	Planning for an Equitable and Comfortable Active Transportation Network	Blue Zones Project Fort Worth: Creating an Environment for Wellbeing	Building the Multi-Faceted Violet Crown Trail	Powered by San Antonio: Getting to Carbon Neutrality Through Transportation & Climate Initiatives
10:30 – 11:45 am		Dreams On Wheels: Encouraging Under Served Communities	Virtual Reality to Reality, Technology Applications in Trail Design	Wellness: Are We Well? Improve the Well-being of Your Community by Breaking Free of Business Silos and Exploring the Opportunities in Mother Nature’s Gym	Prioritizing Alternative Mode Investments	Getting There from Anywhere: TDM Opportunities & Challenges
noon – 1:20 pm	• Lunch • Keynote: Urban Hiking San Antonio: Highlights, Lessons, and Challenges Liz Thomas
1:30 – 2:45 pm		Technical Trail Building	A Bold Initiative: The Great Springs Project	Trail Meets Tech: Leveraging Partnerships and Technology on the new 45SW Trail	Taking Bicycle Facilities from “Almost” to “Exemplary”	Programming, Education and Engagement Strategies for Austin’s Urban Trails	Bike Tour of the Salado Creek Greenway
3:00 – 4:15 pm		Continued: Technical Trail Building	A Unified Strategy for San Antonio’s Visionary Greenways	Maximizing Leverage with Public Private Partnerships	The International Invisible Cyclist	Getting Your Message Out in 2020 and Beyond: Social Media and Email Best Practices	Continued: Bike Tour of the Salado Creek Greenway
4:15 to 6:00 pm	Exhibitor Reception
6:00 to 8:45 pm	• Dinner • Keynote: James Bass, TxDOT; Rodney Franklin, TPWD; Rodney Ellis, Harris County Precinct 1

Friday

	General Session	Bolivar B	Bolivar C	Montecarlo A	Montecarlo B	Mobile Workshop
7:00 – 8:50 am	• Breakfast • Keynote: Cycling for Everyone Ralph Buehler
9:00 – 10:15 am		More Than Just A Mile: How a scrappy 0.9 mile trail navigated a path through local, state & federal oversight, a dozen acquisitions, 6 years of planning and one very tall bridge.	Building a Vision for a County-Wide Trail through Health Advocacy in the Paso del Norte Region	Accelerating Active Transportation Network Build Out in Texas	Designating 130 miles of the Trinity River in DFW Area as a National Recreation Trail with plans to extend to the Gulf
10:30 – 11:45 am		Filling In The Gap	The Amazing Layers of Health Benefits of Off-Road Trails	Recumbent Cycling: Making Cycling Accessible to All	Connecting Seven Million: The DFW Veloweb Takes Shape
12:15 am – 1:30 pm	• Lunch • Keynote: The State of Our State – Active Transportation in Texas in 2020 Jim Carrillo
1:45 – 3:00 pm		Vision Zero San Antonio: Big City, Bigger Solutions	Bringing Municipalities Together to Build a Healthier Landscape & Improve Health Equity	Creating Your Community’s Signature Trail – The Beginning of the Red Line Parkway	Managing Construction Impacts on Active Transportation	Mission Reach Tour