DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Active Transportation in a Rural and Regional Context \nPresenter: Tyler Thomson\, MCIP RPP PTP\, Associate | Senior Active Transportation Planner \nContributor: Erin Tattrie\, RSE\, GradTECH \nAbstract: Active transportation is a growing and quickly evolving aspect of our transportation realm both in urban and rural areas across Canada. Many communities understand the multitude of benefits that active transportation offers from improved health\, environmental\, social and economic conditions\, whether for commuting to work or school\, or for recreational uses. As such\, communities are planning to incorporate active transportation infrastructure\, policies\, and programs to help draw greater interest and awareness to active transportation and to facilitate and encourage people to choose active modes instead of driving. A broader spectrum of users are also gaining access to active transportation through safer dedicated facilities (i.e.\, children\, older adults\, and people with mobility impairments)\, and evolving technologies including electric assisted bicycles\, scooters and other devices which are helping to catalyze increasing use of active modes. However\, planning for active transportation in rural/smaller communities and regional areas can come with its own set of challenges given the traditional roadway design characteristics\, low densities and separation of land uses\, and expansive areas covered between destinations. This presentation provides further context into these challenges and discusses some of the strategies being explored to address the challenges\, as well as the opportunities that come with planning active transportation for rural and regional areas.
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SUMMARY:Joint CITE / PIBC Webinar: Doing More with Less: RapidBus Priority Corridors in Metro Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:The CITE BC Interior Section and PIBC’s Okanagan Interior Chapter are excited to bring you a virtual lunch and learn on June 2\, 2021 from 12:00-1:00 pm. \nPresentation Synopsis: \nTransLink recently completed Phase 1 of its RapidBus transit priority program\, consisting of three new and two rejuvenated transit priority corridors in Metro Vancouver. Planning\, engineering\, design\, and construction services for 40 new kilometres of regional mobility improvements were delivered by TransLink and a team from WSP Canada\, Access Planning\, and Nelson Nygaard between Spring 2018 and Fall 2020. \nThe project delivered on its purpose of improving congested transit corridors by installing priority measures and increasing bus travel speeds by 20%\, mostly through more efficient use of existing infrastructure and right-of-way. \nWSP delivered many of the planning and design services for the corridors and will present a holistic picture of the project’s main goals\, constraints\, conflicts\, delivery strategies\, and achievements. This will include a high-level look at the methods used to identify preferred alignments\, specific transit priority features\, and mitigate design conflicts along each of the routes. \nThe presentation will be of interest to anyone interested in improving sustainable mobility outcomes in the Okanagan region. It demonstrates how significant transit priority improvements can be achieved with smarter application of a best practice-focused planning and engineering design approach. \nSpeaker Bios: \nKelly Yang joined WSP’s Transportation Engineering team after completing her civil engineering degree at the BCIT She is developing experience in designing and managing all types of transportation infrastructure including highways and roads\, municipal development works\, pedestrian\, bike\, and transit facilities\, and parking lots through a hands-on approach to learning. \nAlice Zhao joined WSP Transportation Engineering team after completing her civil engineering degree at McGill University in 2019. Her design experience extends to highway\, intersection and railway crossing designs. She is skilled in using Civil3D for modelling corridors and producing sections as well as AutoTURN for swept path analysis. \nMark Merlo manages WSP’s BC Transportation Planning group. He has 25 years of consulting experience in transportation planning and traffic engineering on projects throughout the province and internationally. In recent years he has worked on multi-model projects such as airports\, cruise terminals and transit priority projects. \nRegister here: https://urbansystems-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8SeOFuuBT9Gz_6cuceQYpw
URL:https://www.itecanada.org/event/joint-cite-pibc-webinar-doing-more-with-less-rapidbus-priority-corridors-in-metro-vancouver/
LOCATION:Kelowna Area\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Joint CITE / PIBC Lunch & Learn
DESCRIPTION:Dockside Green – The Story of the Most Sustainable Development in the World\nVisit the event website to register. \nDockside Green is a 15-acre redevelopment located in Victoria\, British Columbia that achieved the highest sustainability rating in the world under the LEEDTM green building rating system in 2008 and again in 2009. \nKim Fowler\, RPP\, MCIP\, the original visionary and project manager\, has written a book on the 18-year project history. She has owned a condo there since 2009 and sat on the Strata Council. The book details the project management process that attracted and rewarded a sustainable developer partnered with a municipality and the multi-year development and operation. Chapters include a case history\, sustainable use\, design\, infrastructure\, and the importance of community place and connection. Successes\, failures\, stories\, and lessons to share are discussed throughout the book. The project contained many innovations\, including: \n\nAn 80% reduction in water use\, 80% wastewater reuse on-site & 20% energy cost\nAn on-site wastewater treatment system that almost meets Canadian Drinking Water standards\nA district biomass gasification plant providing all heat and hot water\nCycling\, walking\, and mass transit as the main transportation forms with TransCanada Trail connection\nOver $5 million in community amenities\nUse of New Urbanism\, Business case\, ‘Sandbox’ Development Concept (versus a zoning straitjacket)\, and Triple Bottom Line assessment.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\nKim Fowler has over 25 years’ experience working as a planner and sustainability expert with local government\, including: \n\nDesigning the City of Port Coquitlam’s Sustainability Initiative\nConverting two bankrupted hotels into integrated housing for the City of Victoria\nImplementing the Waterfront Area Plan for the Town of Ladysmith.
URL:https://www.itecanada.org/event/joint-cite-pibc-lunch-learn/
LOCATION:Kelowna Area\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:ITE Interior BC/PIBC - 2018 Okanagan Travel Survey
DESCRIPTION:Presentation Synopsis:\nThe 2018 Okanagan Travel Survey is one of the largest public surveys undertaken in the valley\, and the most comprehensive picture of how people move around the Central Okanagan and the City of Vernon to date. Ten thousand residents participated\, logging the details of over thirty thousand trips\, and covering the distance to the moon and back – six times. This webinar will highlight some of trends seen in the data and what they suggest for the future of mobility in the region. \nSpeaker Bio:\nCameron Noonan is a Transportation Planner with the City of Kelowna and was the Project Manager for the 2018 Okanagan Travel Survey. Raised in Vancouver\, he studied human geography at Simon Fraser University and urban planning at UBC before moving the Okanagan in 2016. He enjoys using data to tell stories about life within our cities.\n\nJoin Virtual Event:\nhttps://meet.google.com/czz-jibe-gxv\n
URL:https://www.itecanada.org/event/ite-interior-bc-pibc-2018-okanagan-travel-survey/
LOCATION:Kelowna Area\, Canada
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