NSW Roads and Maritime Service course - Designing for Pedestrians and Bicycle Riders
Event Date - 15.05.2013 - 16.05.2013 , at 08:30 - 17:00
Event Location - Sebel Surry Hills Hotel 22-44 Albion St SURRY HILLS
Who should do these courses?
These two-day training courses are suitable for RMS and TfNSW staff, council officers and traffic & transport consultants.
- They are designed to provide engineering and planning practitioners with a sound working knowledge of current best practice for pedestrian and cycling provision.
- The courses will give practitioners a detailed understanding of the key issues and operating requirements for pedestrians and bicycle riders particularly when mixing with other modes.
- The courses consist of a mixture of field work (on foot and by bike), tutorials and workshops working in teams to develop solutions to real-life examples.
Velo-city 2013 (Vienna)
Event Date - 11-14 June 2013
Event Location - Vienna City Hall, Vienna, Austria
Velo-city Conferences serve as a global communication and information platform aiming to address decision-makers in order to improve the planning and provision of infrastructure for the everyday use of bicycles in urban environments.
The Conferences typically bring together more than 1,000 delegates such as engineers, planners, architects, social marketers, academic researchers, environmentalists, businessmen/women and industry representatives who join forces with governmentat all levels in order to build effective transnational partnerships to deliver benefits to cycling worldwide.
They aim to :
- spread high quality knowledge about cycling and transport planning internationally
- showcase the benefits that cities with good cycling policies provide to their citizens, businesses and others
- encourage the recognition of cycling as an efficient, healthy,environmentally friendly mode of transport, and promoting its wide spread use
- integrate cycle planning into transport, land-use planning and other policysectors related to cycling
- seek involvement from all relevant stakeholders.
Velo-city Conferences are initiated and commissioned by the European Cyclists’Federation (ECF).
Information and registration: www.velo-city2013.com
Australian Health Promotion Association 21st National Conference
Event Date - 17.06.2013 - 19-06.2013
Event Location - Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia
The Australian Health Promotion Association is delighted to invite you to Sydney for its 21st National Conference, 17-19 June 2013. This conference will bring together a diverse range of international and Australian speakers, health promotion and population health workers, partners and stakeholders.
Changing Settings: liveable, vibrant, healthy places`is the Conference title. The focus will be on settings in health promotion with emphasis on workplaces, children’s environments, local government as well as the virtual communities and the role of social media in health promotion.
Conference Themes
Theme: Settings
‘Settings’ based health promotion has been on the health promotion agenda for over 20 years – but the landscape keeps changing! What exactly has changed? What has been achieved? What is the current thought on models of practice? How are socio-economic, environmental, cultural and technological changes affecting the way we live? What role do healthy public policies play? What are the challenges and solutions of applying and evaluating settings based practice? How do settings and different population groups interact? In what settings should health promotion be working, and who are the best partners to work with? How do we address and evaluate the complexity of changing settings into liveable, vibrant, healthy places?
Subthemes
- Children’s Environments
- Community Settings and Local Government
- Workplace Settings
- New Generation Technology – place and potential in settings based health promotion
Making Cities Liveable and Sustainable Transformation Conference (Melbourne)
Event Date - 17-19 June 2013
Event Location - Novotel Melbourne St Kilda
Day 1: Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Transformation Conference. Four concurrent streams addressing the following themes,
- Successful implementation of sustainable business structures. Tools and opportunities
- Uncertain playing Field: The Carbon Tax, where to from here
- Not for Profit sector and sustainability
- Local Government/ Business Leaders and Sustainable Development: Going beyond green
- Recycling and Waste Management
- What works and doesn’t work. Local business case studies
- Transport and Logistics
- Energy & Technology
Day 2: Six keynote presentations
Day 3: Making Cities Liveable Conference. Four concurrent streams addressing the following themes,
- Challenges and solutions: Developing a Liveable City
- Community Health - Healthy urban design
- Connecting people and places – Placemaking - Population growth
- Food security - urban agriculture
- Regional Cities - interconnectivity - technology - transport
- Urban landscapes - public spaces - natural resource management
- Working with climate change, energy consumption, generation and other challenges
- Government, business leadership and education for behaviour change
Australian Institute of Traffic Planing and Management Conference (Perth)
Event Date - 30 July-2 August 2013
Transport SOS: Smart, Opportune, Seamless
The three main conference streams will be:
- Transport Planning
- Traffic Engineering/ Management
- Transport and Land Use Modelling
There will also be three interactive workshops:
- Long Term Transport Planning – What’s Happening Around Australia
- Freight – Challenges and Innovation
- Transport Modelling – Sharing Knowledge andExploring Issues
The call for abstracts will be open until 29 October 2012, with the successful abstracts being decided and advised by 19 December 2012.
World Cycling Research Forum (Bristol, UK)
Event Date - 5-6 September 2013
Event Location - University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
The World Cycling Research Forum is as an opportunity for those involved in research into all aspects of cycling (utility, health, behaviour, social aspects, safety, engineering, advocacy) to present their work, add to the ever-growing body of cycling research, and to network with others involved and interested in research focussed on cycling.
Abstracts and contributions are due 22 February 2013.
6th International Urban Design Conference (Sydney)
Event Date - 9-11 September 2013
Event Location - Novotel, Sydney Olympic Park
The conference "UrbanAgiNation" urbanisation |agitation |imagination will examine the future Density and Infrastructure requirements of our Cities. In Australia 40% of the population growth since 2001 has occurred in Melbourne and Sydney. The conference will explore Liveability, Productivity, Affordability and Efficiency.
Call for Abstracts Close: 14th May 2013
NSW Roads and Maritime Service course - Designing for Pedestrians and Bicycle Riders
Event Date - 16.10.2013 - 17.10.2013 , at 08:30 - 17:00
Event Location - Sebel Surry Hills Hotel 22-44 Albion St SURRY HILLS
Who should do these courses?
These two-day training courses are suitable for RMS and TfNSW staff, council officers and traffic & transport consultants.
- They are designed to provide engineering and planning practitioners with a sound working knowledge of current best practice for pedestrian and cycling provision.
- The courses will give practitioners a detailed understanding of the key issues and operating requirements for pedestrians and bicycle riders particularly when mixing with other modes.
- The courses consist of a mixture of field work (on foot and by bike), tutorials and workshops working in teams to develop solutions to real-life examples.
Travel Planning (Sydney)
Event Date - 21-22 October 2013
Event Location - UTS - Broadway (ISF) - Aerial Function Centre, Building 10, Level 7 235 Jones Street, Broadway
Presented by Dr Michelle Zeibots and Nicola Ison
Travel Plans are site-specific transport strategies that aim to increase opportunities for using active transport (walking and cycling), public transport and innovative approaches to car travel such as carshare and car-pooling. This two-day course enables participants to learn-by-doing through a series of interactive exercises that provide instruction on applying the Travel Plan methodology to a range of different sites (workplace and mixed-use residential). It provides insights and approaches to effective communication with key decision-makers, specifying Travel Plans as part of the regulatory requirements for development consent and on-going management, monitoring and evaluation.
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