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1 July 2025 Pre-event evening activity

The pre-event activity is subject to availability on a first-come-first-served basis.

19:00 - 21:30

Cycle Heaven - North Yorkshire’s largest cycle store and cafe

York Active City 2025 delegate and campaigner's Reception

Join us a for a friendly pre-conference meet in the impressive but relaxed surroundings of North Yorkshire's largest bike shop. Meet other delegates and active travel campaigners and put the world to rights! Food and drink available – free buffet provided – all at Cycle Heaven

 

Registration is essential...

This is a private event for delegates and campaigners only,  and places are limited, so please register here using this link

2 July 2025 Conference Programme

Please note that the conference programme is currently under development and subject to change. Please contact Juliana O'Rourke if you'd like to be part of the agenda.

2 July Programme

09:00

The York Barbican Foyer

Registration opens

Delegate networking with refreshments served in the exhibition area in the Sports Hall.

10:00

10.45

Main Auditorium

Welcome plenary

Welcome and host: Graham Grant, Deputy CEO, Active Travel England

 

Chair: Chris Boardman, National Active Travel Commissioner

 

Speakers include:
 

  • Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England & the UK government's Chief Medical Adviser 
     

  • Kim McGuinness, Mayor of the North East 

Followed by panel discussion and Q and A, joined by Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire

Simon Lightwood, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport 

 

11:00

Sports Hall

Networking break

Refreshments served in the exhibition area

11:30

Main Auditorium

Designing inclusive
and accessible neighbourhoods

Chair: Molly McGreevy, Communications Manager, Active Travel England​​

Wheels of Change: building inclusive communities through active travel

Mariam Draaijer, CEO, JoyRiders Britain

Addressing social injustice in active travel

Tom Cohen, Reader in Transport Policy, Active Travel Academy, University or Westminster

Modeshift Active Travel Inspectors

Emily Sykes, Modeshift STARS Programme Manager (Education), Modeshift and Gavin Wood, Inspector, Active Travel England

Guidance on the ground: Improving public space accessibility for walking /wheeling and cycling using the new Wheels for Wellbeing Guide 

Kate Ball, Campaigns and Policy Lead, Wheels for Wellbeing

Followed by panel discussion and audience Q and A

Room Y01 (11.40 - 13.00)

Supporting women and girls to be active

Chair: Sophie Edmondson, Principal Transport Planner (Neighbourhoods and Streets), Camden Council

 

Gender sensitive design using the Safety Inclusion Assessment Tool

Jaimee Boutcher-Hann, Associate, WSP

Women's freedom to ride in London

Kate Bartlett, campaigner and Katy Rodda, Network CoordinatorLondon Cycling Campaign

How do we make our neighbourhoods more accessible and inclusive for mothers cycling with children?

Dawn Rahman, Principal Consultant, Integrated Transport Planning

Navigating new paths: women, bicycles & belonging

Janet Hudson, Behaviour Change Project Manager, Leicester City Council

Followed by panel discussion and audience Q and A

Lendal 1 & 2 (11.40 - 13.00)

Barriers and solutions to incorporating active travel in new developments

ATE’s planning team will host a presentation and panel discussion featuring guest speakers from across the planning and development sector. The session will explore the key challenges and practical solutions for integrating active travel into new residential and commercial developments.

 

Host: Laurence Fallon, Development Management Team Leader, Active Travel England

 

Presentations from:

  • Alex Puddick, Senior Active Travel Officer, Durham County Council

  • Chris Saunders, Technical Director, Motion

  • Helen Ledger, Senior Planning Manager, Active Travel England

  • Simon Emery, Regional Director, AECOM

 

The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A

Active Travel England

Clifford Bar (11.40 - 13.00)

Accessible bus stops

Host: Ameena Berkowitz, Strategy Advisor, Active Travel England

 

How to improve access to bus stops

 

Speakers:

 

Brian Deegan, Director of Inspections, Active Travel England

Chris Theobald, Senior Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns Manager, Guide Dogs

Robert Weetman, Technical Coordinator, Scotland, Living Streets

 

This session has a maximum capacity of 30 people, so please come early to be sure of a place...

Active Travel England

1st Floor Bar

Speed Learning - Choose from 6 of 12 sessions

Speed learning provides a fast-moving discussion platform for knowledge-sharing and networking. The case studies will be presented simultaneously at ‘bar tables’ marked by numbers, in 15 minute sessions (14 minutes for presentation and interactive discussion, and 1 minute for changing tables).

 

The case studies will consist of short presentations followed by discussion. A horn will be sounded when it is time for delegates to change to another table.

1

Creating an Active Travel culture in an adult social care setting

Yvonne Stead, Regional Manager, Wheels for All

 

4

Camden's safe & healthy Streets programme:  accessibility & inclusion

Sam Margolis, Head of Transport Strategy & Projects, London Borough of Camden

7

Accessible transport - what are the barriers?

Indigo Ayling, Associate Director of Research, Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (RiDC) and Melinda Matyas, Associate Director, Future Mobility, WSP

10

How to generate 10 times more impact through active travel to school initiatives

Pooya Kamvari, CEO, HomeRun and 

Helen Akpabio, Active Travel Manager,

Essex County Council

2

Raising the bar:  boosting the accessibility of shared micromobility services

Patrick Utz, Research manager, CoMoUK

5

Access vs crime:  the challenges of barrier removal    

Paul Adams, Network Development Manager – North East, Sustrans

8

CLOCS: A standard to facilitate safe active travel

Kate Cairns, Trainer, CLOCS Ambassador

11

Engaging children and young people in planning

Teresa Strachan,
Town and Country Planner and Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute

3

The importance of inclusive engagement to aid accessible active travel infrastructure design

Lauren James, Head of Engagement & Behaviour Change, MP Smarter Travel, Mark Philpotts, Director, City Infinity 

6

Access control barrier policy, improving access for walkers, wheelers and cyclists

Greg Morgan, Transport Planner Active Travel, City of York Council and Ken Spence, Managing Consultant, Transport Initatives

9

A user experience-centred  accessibility and inclusivity appraisal:  Coventry city centre

John Lynn, active travel lead (England), AtkinsRéalis

12

Using bikeshare data to address access disparities

Patrick Donnelly, Director of Business Development & Policy, Beryl

Meet at reception

Walking tour: York Walls

This tour, by Friends of York Walls, will provide real experience of the walls as a walkable space, how it encloses the community next to it and gives it identity, with details of its heritage and unique physical qualities

Limited to 30 delegates: sign-up sheets will be provided at reception on the day

Meet at reception

Cycling tour 
 

Cycle tour led by Everybody's Cycling

Inclusive cycles provided by Get Cycling

Limited to 10 delegates

 

Join Everybody's Cycling for a tour on one of Get Cycling's inclusive cycles. Experience the freedom that trikes, recumbents and other designs of cycle can bring. Discuss some of the challenges in designing inclusive infrastructure.

 

Sign-up sheets will be provided at reception on the day

13:00

Sports Hall

Lunch break

Refreshments served in the exhibition area

14:00

Main Auditorium

Effective engagement and consultations

Host: Olivia Firth, Digital Communications Manager, Active Travel England

 

Speakers include:

Meeting people where they are, not where we wish they were

John Dales, Director, Urban Movement

 

How to make friends and influence councillors

James Gleave, Founder, Mobility Lab

 

Communications that united a community to work for change

Anna Williams, Head of Campaigns and Engagement, Camcycle

Getting Doncaster Moving

Caroline Temperton, Public Health Lead - Healthy Places, and Kerry Perruzza, Strategic Transportation Manager, City of Doncaster Council

Followed by panel discussion and audience Q and A

Room Y01

Economic and business cases

Chair: Jo Maher, GP and Place- based Physical Activity Clinical Champion for Sheffield

 

How walking can transform communities and support the UK economy

Tanya Braun, Policy & Communications Director, Living Streets

 

How to get the best out of your clients – and your consultants

Ella King, Project Manager, Strategic Infrastructure, Calderdale Council and Paul Murray, Principal Consultant, Citisense

 

Scheme assessment in York

Paul Osborne, Associate, Systra and Andy Vose, Transport Policy Manager, City of York Council

 

Physical activity health benefits of walking and cycling

Chris Smith, Economic Advisor, Active Travel England

 

Followed by panel discussion and audience Q and A

14.40

Lendal 1 & 2 

Transforming the public realm

Host: Alice Pelliccia-Bourke, Senior External Affairs Manager, Active Travel England, with:

  • Francesca Galimberti, Urban Planner: Milan Piazze Aperte - creating public spaces in Milan

  • Joaquim Muntané, Technical Lead (Movement and Place), Oxfordshire County Council: Transforming key locations in Oxfordshire

DfT's Connectivity Tool

 

Speakers:

  • Robert Singleton, Head of Planning, Housing and Transport, Department for Transport

  • Fergus O'Dowd, Senior Planning Adviser, Department for Transport

The Connectivity Tool combines transport and land use data to generate a national measure of connectivity for any location in England and Wales

Clifford Bar (14.15 - 15.15)

Active Travel England design and planning surgeries

Presented by Active Travel England 

The surgeries are open to councils and local planning authorities only – by appointment

 

Please apply using the SmartSurvey link below

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/4AYXES/

Active Travel England

1st Floor Bar

Speed Learning - Choose from 6 of 9

Speed Learning provides a fast-moving discussion platform for knowledge-sharing and helps teams to network.  The case studies will be presented simultaneously at ‘bar tables’ marked by numbers, in 15 minute sessions (14 minutes for presentation and interactive discussion, and 1 minute for changing tables).

 

The case studies will consist of short presentations followed by discussion. A horn will be sounded when it is time to change to another table.

1

Enabling communities to measure how healthy their streets are

Lucy Saunders, Director, Healthy Streets

4

The economic appraisal of safety: women and girls

Graham Hardy, Technical Director, Mobility, WSP

 

7

Harnessing data and community insights to build the case for investment

Iona Chandler

Partnerships Manager, UrbanTide

10

Monitoring, analysing and communicating the impact of cycling and walking investment

Charn Aujla,
Business Development Manager, VivaCity

2

Consulting towards consensus on a proposed law change

Ben Foley, Campaigns and Policy Lead, Wheels for Wellbeing

5

Collaborative design using visualisation and 360 degree imagery

Jon Little, Co-founder, BetaStreets and Holly Weir, Active Travel Project manager, Suffolk County Council

8

Creating a stakeholder-led approach to active travel
 

Yo Higton, Active Travel Lead, Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority

3

What to do when community engagement goes wrong – and how to get it right

Rosie Wright, Engagement Manager, Living Streets

6

Increasing diversity in engagement on walking, cycling and wheeling in Sheffield

Peter Edwards, Associate, SYSTRA 

9

Implementation and approach to the DfT 3 year Active Travel Social Prescribing pilot– walking, cycling and wheeling in Leeds

Rachel Dukes, Advanced Health Improvement Specialist - Healthy Living and Health Improvement, Leeds City Council

Meet at reception

Walking tour: York

Designing a city centre sustainable travel corridor
 
How do we balance sustainable movement and place-making in the heart of a historic city?

 

Walk led by City of York Council officers

Sign-up sheets will be provided at reception on the day. Limited to 15 delegates

Meet at reception

Cycling tour:

Cycle tour led by Everybody's Cycling

Inclusive cycles provided by Get Cycling

Limited to 10 delegates

 

Join Everybody's Cycling for a tour on one of Get Cycling's inclusive cycles. Experience the freedom that trikes, recumbents and other designs of cycle can bring. Discuss some of the challenges in designing inclusive infrastructure.

 

Sign-up sheets will be provided at reception on the day

15:30

Sports Hall

Networking break

Refreshments served in the exhibition area

day-1-closing-plenary

16:00

Main Auditorium

A conversation with...

​Host: Kirsty McCaskill-Baxter, Head of Communications, Active Travel England

  • David Skaith, Mayor of York and North Yorkshire

  • Chris Boardman, National Active Travel Commissioner

day-1-closing-plenary

16:30

Main Auditorium

Day 1 closing plenary: 
Public perceptions in the media

Host: Will Norman, London's Walking & Cycling Commissioner
 

  • Peter Walker, acting deputy political editor, The Guardian

  • Laura Laker, journalist and writer specialising in cycling and urban transport 

17:45

York Barbican Foyer

Networking drinks

Refreshments served at the bar by the main entrance

18:00

York Barbican Foyer: Meet for Millennium Bridge 25th Anniversary Ride or Civic Trust and Friends of York Walls walk

Millennium Bridge 25th Anniversary Ride: Come and celebrate the 25th Anniversary of this special bridge – join the York Cycle Campaign for a cycle parade through the heart of the city


Led by York Cycle Campaign

  • unlimited numbers

  • cycles available to borrow, including inclusive cycles from Get Cycling

  • sign-up sheets will be provided at reception on the day for those needing to borrow a bike

This is a public event  and the ride departs from the main venue at 18.15. Registration is highly encouraged, though not essential – for planning purposes!

Please register here

 

Cycles are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

OR

Civic Trust and Friends of York Walls walk (up to 40 delegates)

 

An evening stroll around the southern side of one of York’s most celebrated features, taking in culture, history and archaeology along the way. End at Bootham Bar at around 7:15pm.

  • sign-up sheets will be provided at reception on the day 

18:30

Day 1 close

3 July Programme

3 July 2025 Conference Programme

Please note that the conference programme is currently under development and subject to change. Please contact Juliana O'Rourke if you'd like to be part of the agenda.

08:00

08.30

The York Barbican Foyer

Meet for optional early morning walk with Friends of York Walls

A morning stroll taking in the northern half of York’s walls including the King’s Fishpool. Experience York’s unique commuting route. The walk will end at the Barbican at 9:30 am

  • sign-up sheets will be provided on 2 July for up to 40 delegates

Registration opens

Delegate networking with refreshments served in the exhibition area

09.15

Main Auditorium

'Reverse Panel' led by Active Travel England

Join Kit Allwinter, Senior Inspector at Active Travel England, and colleagues in a structured discussion exploring the themes of the conference. Bring your thoughts and opinions for this engaging and interactive session

Clifford Bar
(09.00 - 11.00)

Active Travel England design and planning surgeries

The surgeries are open to councils and local planning authorities only – by appointment.

 

Please apply using the SmartSurvey link below

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/4AYXES/

Active Travel England

10.00

10.15

Main Auditorium

Day 2 Opening plenary




The Active Travel enigma – why can't we achieve continental levels of walking and cycling in our cities?

Welcome and introduction from Danny Williams, CEO, Active Travel England and Director, Integrated National Transport Strategy, Department for Transport

Host: Cllr Kate Ravilious, Executive Member for Transport, City of York Council
 

  • Peter Roderick, Director of Public Health, City of York Council

  • ​Anne-Sophie Gamblin,  Director of Mobility, Dijon metropolis, France

  • ​Lara Thornton, Transport Communications Manager, City of York Council

Clifford Bar 
(09.00 - 11.00)

Active Travel England design and planning surgeries

The surgeries are open to councils and local planning authorities only – by appointment.

 

Please apply using the SmartSurvey link below

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/4AYXES/

Active Travel England

11.30

Sports Hall

Morning break

Delegate networking with refreshments served in the exhibition area

12.00

Main Auditorium

Designing for active school journeys – the art of the possible

This session will explore how the school run can be transformed with planning, vision and community engagement.

 

Hosts: Graham Grant, Deputy CEO, Active Travel England and Jennifer Wiles, Head of Behaviour Change Programmes, Active Travel England 

 

Speakers include:

  • Pupils from St Oswald’s School in York on what they would like to see
     

  • Catriona Swanson, Strategic Lead - Sustainable Transport, Manchester City Council and Harry Gray, Walk Ride GM
     

  • Rob Shoebridge, Group Manager - Traffic and Transportation and Kerry Griffiths, Digital Commercialisation, Enforcement, Governance and Innovation Manager, Derby City Council 
     

  • Jon Little, Co-founder, Beta Streets, will host an interactive 'design your own school street' session

Active Travel England

Room Y01

Inclusive crossings

Session led by:

 

  • Andre Neves, Principal Inspector, Active Travel England 

  • Rob Snowball, Senior Inspector, Active Travel England 
     

This session will explore the results of new research commissioned by Active Travel England to better understand measures to promote pedestrian priority at side roads and bus stop bypass layouts. The study, carried out by Transport for West Midlands at the University of Warwick campus during autumn and winter 2024, explored the usability of side road zebra crossings for different users. It also trialled a vehicle detection system to support blind and partially sighted people.

Active Travel England

Lendal 1 & 2

Walkable places and wayfinding

Chair: Alice Dalton, Senior Research Associate, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

 

If pedestrians come first, why don't we design for walking?

Christopher Martin, Managing Director, Urban Movement and Vice-Chair, Living Streets

Pedestrian wait-time reduction: a vast improvement to the pedestrian experience on a shoestring budget

Josef Whitfield, Sustainable Transport Policy Officer, Manchester City Council

 

Pedestrianising Bradford: removing a city centre dual carriageway 

Dan Warburton, Operations Manager, Sweco and Darren Badrock, Project Managing Officer (TCF), City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Active travel wayfinding in the Liverpool City Region

Claire Hering, Programme Development Officer, and Lee-Victoria Davies, Transport Planner, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Clifford Bar

Active travel to school guidance

ATE’s Planning and Placemaking Strategy team will introduce their upcoming guidance document, which will advise local authorities and developers on how they can maximise opportunities for active journeys within new and changing school developments. This session will involve a short walk/wheel to a nearby school (approximately 800m each way).

 

Hosts:

  • Jo Clayton, Head of Planning and Placemaking Strategy, Active Travel England

  • Will Elliot, Senior Planner, Active Travel England

  • Ellen Douglass, Planning Policy Manager, Active Travel England
     

Active Travel England

1st Floor Bar

Speed Learning - Choose from 4 of 11

Speed Learning provides a fast-moving discussion platform for knowledge-sharing and helps teams to network.  The case studies will be presented simultaneously at ‘bar tables’ marked by numbers, in 15 minute sessions (14 minutes for presentation and interactive discussion, and 1 minute for changing tables).

 

The case studies will consist of short presentations followed by discussion. A horn will be sounded when it is time to change to another table.

1

Guardrail removal: addressing a significant barrier to walking, wheeling and cycling 

Amy Priestley, Urban Design Lead, Urban Movement and Ken Spence, Managing Consultant, Transport Initatives

4

Assessing Bologna's historic centre with Arup's Staterra modelling toolkit

Adrien Friesen, Senior Consultant and Product Manager, Arup

7

The ‘Greater Manchester Wayfinding Guide’

Kirsty Newman, Consultant, Steer and Lucia Southworth,

Transport Strategy Officer, Transport for Greater Manchester

10

How walkable places can transform communities

Jane Thompson,
Joint Lead Transport and Sustainability,
Colchester City Council

2

From fly-tipped fridges to bee-friendly walking route: a community-led  transformation to connect green spaces and communities

Phillippa Banister, Founder & Director, Street Space

5

Making York a people place

Andrew Graham, Director, TheUrbanGlow Design and Heritage

8

A national way-finding system

Tim Fendley, Creative Director and Founder, Applied Information Group

11

Boosting walking and cycling access to schools in Jersey

Sam Fleming and Sumit Kaura, Senior Transport Planners – Active Travel, Government of Jersey

3

Walking the Talk: building resilient communities through walkability and active travel

Tara Nursalim-Paul, Hilman Prakoso, Tika Pratiwi Sufyan, Kultum-Kultur Bertumbuh

6

The GM Ringway: a public transport-integrated walking trail

Andrew Read,
Walking Projects Plus

9

Rethinking walking strategies: new techniques for effective active travel planning

John McQueen, Local Authority Lead, Mayer Brown

12

Scheme activation: developing & delivering targeted activation to enable behaviour

change

Chris Cordwell, Managing Consultant,  AtkinsRealis

Meet at reception

Walking tour: walkable neighbourhoods

Led by the Civic Trust
 

A walking tour of Aldwark to demonstrate the value of low traffic neighbourhoods using an example that is now some 50 years old. The walk would take delegates from the Barbican through the city walls at Walmgate, along Navigation Road across the Foss and through Hungate to Aldwark where we can look at the original plan, later developments and the success of the scheme in creating a character area that stands out as a peaceful area of quiet in the close proximity of busy shopping streets

Sign-up sheets will be provided on reception for up to 20 delegates

Meet at reception

Cycling tour

Cycle tour led by Everybody's Cycling

Inclusive cycles provided by Get Cycling

Limited to 10 delegates

 

Join Everybody's Cycling for a tour on one of Get Cycling's inclusive cycles. Experience the freedom that trikes, recumbents and other designs of cycle can bring. Discuss some of the challenges in designing inclusive infrastructure.

 

Sign-up sheets will be provided at reception on the day

13.00

Sports Hall

Networking lunch

Delegate networking with lunch served in the exhibition area

14:00

Main Auditorium

Linking urban and rural areas

Chair: Janet Belfield, Regional Manager – Yorkshire and the Humber, Active Travel England

 

The challenges of delivering a Mini-Holland project in a rural area: the case of Woodbridge and Melton

Holly Weir, Active Travel Project Manager, Suffolk County Council

 

Connecting communities: development of a rural active travel network

Amber Kenyon, Principal Transport Manager, AtkinsRéalis and Sean Poole, Senior Transport Policy Officer, Staffordshire County Council

Collaboration of landowners and local authorities in delivering rural active travel infrastructure

Felicity Heathcote-Marcz, Founder & Director, Bare Analysis and Jonny Fuller, Principal Transport Strategy Officer, Buckinghamshire Council

 

Rural isolation: active travel and transport poverty

Steve Essex, Managing Consultant, Transport Initatives

Room Y01

Spotlight on ATE's rural design guidance

Host:​ Kit Allwinter, Senior Inspector, Active Travel England

The Rural Design Guidance consultation window ends soon. Active Travel England,will lead a panel of presenters to discuss the findings and learning from the engagement process so far.

Panellists:

  • Phil Jones, Chairman, PJA

  • Stacy Dowding, Technical Director, WSP

Lendal 1 & 2

Building active networks

Chair: Cllr Kate Ravilious, Executive Member for Transport, City of York Council

 

Speakers include:

Using a transport hierarchy to deliver active travel improvements every day

Tom Horner, Head of Active and Sustainable Transport, and Steve Wragg, Head of Highways Asset Management, City of York Council

 

Connecting communities across Calderdale

Andy Binder, Principal Transport Planner, Sweco and Tom Jones, Transport Planner, Calderdale Council

 

Integrating walking and cycling with public transport
Claire Stocks, Senior Strategy Officer, GMCA and Pete Zanzottera, Acting Active Travel Network Manager, Transport for Greater Manchester

 

Travel Planning in the NHS

Dan Braidley, Travel and Partnerships Manager, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Clifford Bar

1st Floor Bar

Speed Learning - Choose from 5 of 10

Speed Learning provides a fast-moving discussion platform for knowledge-sharing and helps teams to network.  The case studies will be presented simultaneously at ‘bar tables’ marked by numbers, in 15 minute sessions (14 minutes for presentation and interactive discussion, and 1 minute for changing tables).

 

The case studies will consist of short presentations followed by discussion. A horn will be sounded when it is time to change to another table.

1

'Pop-up' secure cycle parking: 
proof of concept

Andy Farndale, Bike Parking coordinator, York Cycle Campaign

4

Broughty Ferry to Monifieth: connecting communities, from feasibility to delivery

Aurelia Ciclaire, Associate, SYSTRA & Gerry Conway, Project Manager, Dundee City Council

7

 Bikeshare and urban growth: leveraging s106 for sustainable mobility

Ben Lee
Strategic Partnership lead, Beryl

​​​​

10

School Streets and children’s health and wellbeing – emerging evidence from Bradford

Lisa Dowling, Senior Research Fellow, Bradford Institute of Health Research

2

Developing Phase 1 of West Yorkshire’s Mobility Hubs

Joel Hawthorn, Associate, Steer and James Purdy, Infrastructure Project Manager, WYCA

5

Ensuring that active travel investment is embedded in new development

Oli Davey, Co-Founder and Projects Director, Urban Movement

8

Is the fear of 'street clutter' impacting micromobility implementation? It doesn’t
have to...

Mitch Price,
Head of Government Relations, Ario

​​​​

3

Will it fit? Test the new street space layer in the Network Planning Tool for Scotland

Robin Lovelace,  Professor of Transport Data Science, University of Leeds and Angus Calder, Senior Mobility Planner, Sustrans Scotland

6

 Monitoring, analysing and communicating the impact of cycling and walking investment

Charn Aujla,
Business Development Manager, VivaCity

9

Programming for inclusive design –  how do you make it happen? Lessons learned from updating the Active Travel Act (Wales) street design guidance


Tom Wharf, Head of Design (Active Travel), Transport for Wales

Meet at reception

Walking tour with  Wheels for Wellbeing

How do we design accessible neighbourhoods? A tour of the good, the bad and the ugly in York

 

Apologies – we are unable to provide personal assistants, so anyone who needs an assistant please arrange to bring their own (assistants will not be counted as a person on the tour)

Sign-up sheets will be provided on reception for up to 15 delegates

(not including personal assistants)

Meet at reception

Cycling tour: Station Gateway tour and bus stop bypasses
 

Led by Greg Morgan, Transport Planner - Active Travel, City of York Council

Station Gateway – designing inclusive walking and cycling infrastructure, and accessible bus stops

 

Sign-up sheets will be provided on reception for up to 15 delegates

 

Bicycles will be provided
 

15:20

Sports Hall

Comfort break

15:30

Main Auditorium

Closing plenary

Speakers include:

  • Graham Grant, Deputy CEO and Director of Planning, Development & Strategy, Active Travel England

  • Dame Sarah Storey, Active Travel Commissioner, Greater Manchester

16:10

Event close

Sponsored by:

Active Travel England
Beryl

Micromobility Sponsor

Supported by:

ATKINSRealis
Jobs-in-Transport.com
Systra

Hosted by:

York City Council
Active City York: 2025

Active City York  2-3 July 2025

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