Programme
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(Programme subject to change.)
MON 19 SEPT 2022
LOCATION: EPIC MUSEUM
10:00
Registration & Information
10:00 - 12:00
THE PEP Consortium Meeting 2 (invitation only)
11:00 - 12.30
Youth Forum
Approximately 150 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 – from a range of backgrounds, interests and abilities – coming together to create a list of actions for delegates to reflect on their needs.
12:30 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Youth Forum
Consolidating the Conversation
14:00 - 17:00
Parallel Workshops - these are in-person events only
- Measuring Walking: New smart tools and what can be done with good walking data
- Exploring shortcuts as a tool and strategy to promote everyday walking
- Volvo Research and Education Foundation: Walking as a mode of transport research programme (invitation only)
- Using Bluetooth Low Energy to study pedestrian activity in outdoor public spaces: A practical interactive workshop
- Walking and the Law
- Introduction to the I-PARC evaluation toolkit to measure the impact of physical activity interventions
- Active Travel Advocacy; Tales and Learning from the Front Lines
- Including All People Walking: school mobility plans – a tool for integrating children’s needs into the design of the school pathway to promote walking for all users
17:30
Welcome Reception
TUES 20 SEPT 2022
LOCATION: TU DUBLIN GRANGEGORMAN
08:00
Registration & Information
9:00 - 10.30
Opening Plenary Session 1 *
Global Perspectives, National Commitment, Local Action: the research and political momentum for walking
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| TU Dublin Welcome | Prof David Fitzpatrick | TU Dublin | Ireland |
| Walk21 Welcome | Bronwen Thornton | Walk21 | |
| A global view on the academic study of walking | Dr Lake Sagaris | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Chile |
| Ireland’s Walking Story: Get Ireland Walking | Dr Úna May | Sport Ireland | Ireland |
| Ireland’s Walking Story: investing in the infrastructure | Joe Seymour | National Transport Authority | Ireland |
| Youth Forum Call to Action | Youth Representatives | Ireland |
10:30 - 11:00
Tea & Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1/1: National & Regional Policymaking *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Characteristics of walking strategies affecting their usefulness and effect | Ms Marianne Knapskog | Institute of Transport Economics | Norway |
| Austrian Federal Masterplan for Walking | Ms Allessandra Angelini | Environment Agency Austria | Austria |
| National Walking Strategies | Mr Paulo Cambra | U-Shift – Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon | Portugal |
| Queensland Steps Up: escalating the profile of walking at the state level | Ms Robyn Davies | Dept of Transport & Main Roads, Queensland | Australia |
| The Irish Physical Activity Research Collaboration (I-PARC): all-island collaborative action for physical activity promotion and knowledge translation | Prof Catherine Woods | University of Limerick | Ireland |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1/2: Creating Places for Children & Young People *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Walkability for Children in Bologna: An urban informatics approach | Dr Andrea Gorrini | Fondazione Transform Transport ETS | Italy |
| Lessons learned from the ‘Streets for Kids’ projects | Mr Paul Supawanich | Global Designing Cities Initiative | USA |
| How to support walking – a child’s perspective | Chiara Hanrahan | An Taisce Green Schools | Ireland |
| Develop child-friendly urban planning principles for liveable and walkable neighborhoods – the use case of Westlich Kennedydamm and the ‘Move Düsseldorf’ vision in Germany | Mrs Lucy Henriques | ARUP Deutschland GmbH | Germany |
| Encouraging children to walk to learn | Mr Roger Healey | Kingston Coalition for Active Transportation | Canada |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1/3: Walk to the Line: joined-up thinking in public transport *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| The needs and requirements of people with disabilities for ‘walking’ more often: Insights from the mobility survey of the TRIPS project | Dr Tally Hatzakis | Trilateral Research Ltd. | Ireland |
| Inclusify: women empowerment for inclusive mobility | Ms Maria Conill de Azpiazu | AMB | Spain |
| Walk & Ride: introducing public transport physical activity appraisal toolkit | Mr Martin Wedderburn | Wedderburn Transport Planning | Poland |
| Evidence-based approach through a combination of new technologies & active youth participation to advocate for safer walking environment for children | Ms Quyen Bui | AIP Foundation | Vietnam |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1/4: Motivating People to Walk: what's the magic wand? *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Motivating Walking in Travel Apps | Dr Kate Pangbourne | Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds | UK |
| First-time Experience of Walking Meetings: how to design onboarding solutions to promote this healthy work practice? | Mrs Mélodie Jacob | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| A Saudi experience in using social media for including all people walking in Saudi Arabia, Gulf and Arab States | Dr Salih Alansari | Health Promotion Center, Riyadh | Saudi Arabia |
| Neighborhood shared streets under 30km/h: pedestrian safety challenges beyond speed reduction | Dr Jihee Namgung | Architecture & Urban Research Institute | Rep of Korea |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1/5: Real-life road safety initiatives from around the world *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Non-motorised visibility project | Mr Galebowe Motlhajoe | Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA) | Botswana |
| Show me the Way: big-data screening methodology to identify road safety risk around schools and prioritise investments | Mrs Shanna Luchessi | iRAP | Portugal |
| Loving 30 – a foundation for walking and everything else | Mr Rod King | 20s Plenty for Us – Love 30 | UK |
| The right of the city, the right of the students | Ms Sonia Aguilar | WRI Mexico | Mexico |
| How much do 30 km/h speed limits affect walkability? | Ms Muireann O’Dea | Love 30, the campaign for 30km/h speed limits | Ireland |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1/6: Pecha Kuchas *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| “GISMÖ” – an everyday route-planning tool for healthy mobility | Mr Reinhard Jellinek | Austrian Energy Agency | Austria |
| Exercise, Enliven, Encounter: potential at the doorstep | Ms Jenny Leuba | Pedestrian mobility Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Walking Pilgrimages: connection people with spiritual & cultural landscapes | Dr Richard Scriven | Houses of the Oireachtas | Ireland |
| Dudes and Dogs | Mr Mark Kelly | Dudes and Dogs | Ireland |
| Remapping | Ms Ellie Berry | ellieberry.com | Ireland |
| Safer neighborhoods emerging across the Global South | Mr Abhimanyu Prakash | India | |
| Connecting-Cabra: a community working to reclaim their streets for people | Dr Brian Gormley | Connecting Cabra | Ireland |
| Slow roads set Antwerp in motion | Mrs Laura Nagels | Trage Wegen vzw | Belgium |
| Safer School Zones | Mr Galebowe Motlhajoe | Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA) | Botswana |
| Engaging communities through walking art | Ms Sara Hayes | The Public Art Company | UK |
| A mobile locative audio walking experience for Blanchardstown | Mr Vincent O’Reilly | TU Dublin | Ireland |
| The Shopping Trolley Project: a small investment with a large impact | Mr Stuart Lindsay | Net Zero Vermont | USA |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1/7: Walkshops
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Healthy TU Dublin Heritage Trails & Walkshops | Dr Teresa Hurley | TU Dublin | Ireland |
| Explore Urban Textures | Mr Raphael Mak | Metrunner | Sweden |
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Plenary Session 2: Walking as the foundation for healthy bodies, minds and streets *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Ministerial Address | Min Frank Feighan | Min of State with responsibility for Public Health, Wellbeing & the National Drugs Strategy | Ireland |
| The Role of Place in Wellbeing | Prof Esther Sternberg | Univeristy of Arizona | USA |
| Health Impact Assessments for the Built Environment | Prof Mark Nieuwenhuijsen | IS Global | Spain |
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Panel: Building on the synergies between health and transport for better community outcomes
|
Prof Shane O’Mara (C) | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland |
| TBC | World Health Organisation | Switzerland | |
| Prof Niall Moyna | Dublin City University | Ireland | |
| Charlie Burke | Coillte | Ireland |
15:30 - 16:00
Tea & Coffee
16:00 - 17:30
Parallel Sessions: Session 2/1: Evaluating Environments and their Walkability *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| From STRIDE.App to Walkability.App: development of two apps to report walking experiences in the field | Dr Stefan Steiniger | Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) | Chile |
| From Local to National: a universal design approach to walkable towns | Ms Ruth O’Reilly | Centre for Excellence in Universal Design, National Disability Authority | Ireland |
| Virtual Walking for Improving Walkability | Prof Stefan van der Spek | Deft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| Walkability Tool | Mr Tomer Shachaf | PosadMaxwan | Netherlands |
| Walking towards inclusion for the Traveller Community in Finglas | Ms Doireann Crosson | Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre | Ireland |
16:00 - 17:30
Session 2/2: Walking to School: essential steps to support this journey *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Including All People Walking: school mobility plans – a tool for integrating children’s needs into the design of the school pathway to promote walking for all users | Mr Brendan Drezen | Association Transports et Environment (ATE) | Switzerland |
| Safe Access to Schools Initiative: a case study from Mumbai | Mr Rohit Tak | World Resources Institute (WRI) | India |
| New school zone paradigm in Korea based on traffic accident analysis | Dr Sunghoon Oh | Architecture and Urban research institute | Rep of Korea |
| Streamlining the ‘Safe Routes to School Programme’ in Rio de Janeiro | Ms Danielle Hoppe | Institute for Transportation and Development Policy – ITDP Brazil | Brazil |
| School Streets, School Zones: lessons from around the world | Mr Richard Clarke | FIA Foundation | UK |
| Designing ‘playful’ school zones and the wider ‘Safe Routes to School Programme’ | Ms Finola O’Driscoll | National Transport Authority | Ireland |
16:00 - 17:30
Session 2/3: Mobilising our Older Population *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Elderly Mobility Plan: including seniors pedestrians in public spaces | Mr Rodrigo Lurueña | ATE Association Transports et Environment | Switzerland |
| Guangzhou’s ageing-friendly transportation strategy under the goal of an all ages friendly city | Mr Zexia Wang | Guangzhou Urban Planning & Design Survey Research Institute | China |
| Enhancing accessibility of barrier-free routes for elderly | Ms Sarah Ang | Land Transport Authority | Singapore |
| Silver Ribbons: research on user-friendly walking routes for seniors | Ms Naomé Carmeliet | Voetgangersbeweging vzw | Belgium |
16:00 - 17:30
Session 2/4: Walking to Win in Public Health & Planning *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Walking Interventions to Increase Active Commuting | Ms Siobhán Hamilton | National Transport Authority | Ireland |
| Wake-up Call from a Family Doctor in Rotterdam : how active mobility can serve public health | Mrs José Besselink | Municipality, City of Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| The Healthy Cities Generator: automating healthy urban design | Ms Ruth Gow | Bax & Company | Spain |
| Healthy Movement, Healthy Places: Measuring Wellbeing and Quality of Life Impacts in Transport Appraisal | Mr Martin Wedderburn | Wedderburn Transport Planning | Poland |
| Irish Transport System Through a Wellbeing Lens | Ms Aimee Aguilar Jaber | OECD |
16:00 - 17:30
Session 2/5: Wrestling with the Data: understanding what is needed and how to use it *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Results from the Dublin Walking and Cycling Index 2021 – formerly the Bike Life Report | Ms Sarah McDonagh | National Transport Authority | Ireland |
| Technologies to count pedestrians, typologies of flow profiles & extrapolation factors: examples from a comprehensive Swiss study | Mr Daniel Sauter | Urban Mobility Research | Switzerland |
| Learning from Frequent Walkers: motivations, practices & spaces | Dr Farzaneh Bahrami | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| Our Right to a Walkable City: assessing walkability & accessibility to the public space in Guayaquil | Dr Ricardo Pozo | Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo | Ecuador |
| Automated extraction of pedestrian activity using graph databases | Mr David Powell | tPOT Research Group | Ireland |
16:00 - 17:30
Session 2/6: Pecha Kuchas *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Where the City Meets the River: riverside placemaking in Budapest | Ms Berta Molnar | Centre for Budapest Transport | Hungary |
| Micro Mobility: future mobility and inclusive design for individuals who are blind or vision impaired | Ms Chantelle Smith | National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) | Ireland |
| Along pilgrim paths to Scherpenheuvel | Ms Nina Van Meerbeeck | Interleuven | Belgium |
| The role of walking in transport decarbonisation – Insights from the SLOCAT Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report | TBC | Sustainable Low Carbon Transport Partnership (SLOCAT) | Spain |
| Walk Which Way? retrofitting schools as walking destinations for young children and caregivers in Tirana, Albania | Mr Simon Battisti | Independent Consultant | Albania |
| Interim street transformation strategies in the self-built neighborhood of Jardim Monte Verde, Recife- Brazil | Mrs Eduarda Aun | Global Designing Cities Intiative (GDCI) | USA |
| Safe Streets Festival in Liberi: urban space and road safety public awareness as means for pacification | Ms Yana Tumakova | University of Kassel | Germany |
| Interim street transformation and speed reduction strategies in the downtown corridor Rua da Palma, Recife- Brazil | Mr Gustavo Silva | Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety | Brazil |
| A phenomenological exploration of landscape and long-distance walking practices on the Dingle Way | Dr Mary Dillon | TU Dublin | Ireland |
| Exploring Transport Doublespeak – the importance of storytelling in changing people’s minds! | Mr Mario Alves | International Federation of Pedestrians (IFP) | Portugal |
16:00 - 17:30
Session 2/7: Walkshops
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Impact storytelling & youth engagement with pedestrian dignity | Mr Jonathon Stalls | Walking Artist | USA |
| Walking into Walkability Data: Exploring ways we assess and understand walking environments | Mr Emmet Ó Briain | TU Dublin | Ireland |
| Orienteering Walkshop: how do we navigate in cities? | Raphael Mak | Metrunner | Sweden |
20:00
Conference Dinner
WED 21 SEPT 2022
LOCATION: TU DUBLIN GRANGEGORMAN
08:00
Registration & Information
09:00 - 10:30
Plenary Session 3 Ensuring equity and access for everyone *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Ministerial Address | Min Jack Chambers | Min of State with responsibility for the Gaeltacht & Sport | Ireland |
| Equitable Cities | Charles Brown | Rutgers University | USA |
| Enhancing collaboration across academic disciplines and with society | Prof Luca Bertolini | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
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Panel: Advocacy for all people walking
|
Mike McGinn | America Walks | USA |
| Madeline Lyes | Irish Pedestrian Network | Ireland | |
| Rona Gibb | Paths for All Scotland | Scotland | |
| Stephen Edwards | Living Streets UK | United Kingdom | |
| A personal journey: interview with… | Neasa Hourigan & Edith Toomey | Ireland |
10:30 - 11:00
Tea & Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Parallel Sessions: Session 3/1: Walking in Women's Shoes *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Planning for Gender Inclusivity in Urban Areas: an application to the City of Naples (Italy) | Dr Carmen Guida | University of Naples Federico II | Italy |
| Walkability with gender and race perspective + the public authorities and society together | Ms Leticia Sabino | SampaPé! | Brazil |
| GIS-based suitability analysis and app-based smart routing system to enhance the security for women while walking | Dr Andrea Gorrini | Fondazione Transform Transport ETS | Italy |
| Vivo Mi Calle: living our streets | Ms Lina Quinones | Despacio | Colombia |
| The Walking In ScHools (WISH Study): A study protocol for a clustered randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a peer-led, school-based walking intervention in adolescent girls | Prof Marie Murphy | Centre for Exercise Medicine, Physical Activity & Health, Sports & Exercise Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Jordanstown | UK |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3/2: First Principles for Engineers: putting pedestrians first *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Barriers to walking perceived by people don’t necessarily correspond to those described in technical documents | Dr Tamara Bozovic | University of the West of England | UK |
| Reducing pedestrian delays at signalised junctions in Dublin | Mr Oisín Devilly | Dublin City Council | Ireland |
| If you build it who will come? Exploring the effects of street improvements in walking behaviour | Mr Paulo Cambra | U-Shift – Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon | Portugal |
| WalkRollMap.org: crowdsourcing barriers to safe and comfortable places to walk | Ms Karen Laberee | University of Victoria | Canada |
| Get out of my Way! Or, politely put, understanding the nature of the ‘barrier’ in the review, redesign and removal of redundant man-made structures on public rights of way. | Ms Rowena Macaulay | Walk Colchester | UK |
| High visibility crossing places for pedestrians | Dr Suzanne Meade | Transport Infrastructure Ireland | Ireland |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3/3: City Policy & Planning Initiatives *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Ghent: a cycling city that will become a walking city as well | Ms Eveline van Hooijdonk | Mobility Department Ghent – team pedestrians | Belgium |
| Pedestrian on a pedestal. Where and why? | Mr André De Wit | Municipality, City of Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| Austrian klimaaktiv mobil action programme – Funding offensive for walking infrastructure of cities and regions | Mr Robert Thaler | Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation & Technology (BMK) | Austria |
| Get walking! The role of sustainable urban mobility planning for walkable cities | Mr Nicolas Cruz Gonzalez | MobiliseYourCity Partnership | Belgium |
| Journey of Chennai towards becoming the most walkable city in India – the past, present and the future | Mr Achuthan Devadoss | Institute for Transportation and Development Policy | India |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3/4: Smarter than Smart: apps, ethics and usefulness of data *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Using machine learning and big data to discover what makes people actually walk in NSW | Mr Nick Fletcher | Vivendi Consulting Pty Ltd. | Australia |
| To walk or not to walk? Merging the walkability and walking accessibility concepts – the development of user-specific walking accessibility measures | Mrs Ulrike Jehle | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| Walking Malta. An innovative Pedestrian-Centred Walkability Assessment | Mr Carlos Cañas | TBC | Malta |
| Walking data – cities needs and market gaps | Ms Marianne Weinreich | Ramboll Smart Mobility | Denmark |
| Envisaging a Digital Pedestrian Network in Singapore for Planning, Routing and More | Ms Kankang Zhu | Land Transport Authority | Singapore |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3/5: Leveraging the Community *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Walking Champions de Marche | Dr Tim Bernett | Caminata Consulting | Canada |
| GAA’s Ireland Lights Up & Step Challenge 2022 | Ms Blánaid Carney | GAA | Ireland |
| Project Force: getting your neighbourhood moving | Mr Niels linhart | Voetgangersbeweging vzw | Belgium |
| How to develop networks of pedestrian pathways in Wallonia? | Ms Charlotte Angerand | Tous à Pied | Belgium |
| The first steps in understanding local and national level walking systems in Ireland | Mr Dylan Power | Waterford Institute of Technology | Ireland |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3/6: Pecha Kuchas *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Calçada Viva Project – Fortaleza, Brazil | Mr Antônio Ferreira Silva | Autarquia Municipal de Trânsito e Cidadania | Brazil |
| Fortaleza Municipal Walkability Plan | Ms Luciana Lobo | Municipal Secretariat for Urban Development and Environment (SEUMA) of the Municipal Government of Fortaleza (PMF) | Brazil |
| Transforming degraded land into Urban Micro Parks | Mr Luiz Alberto Saboia | Municipality of Fortaleza – Foundation of Science, Technology and Innovation | Brazil |
| Building a nation-wide capacity on walking and cycling through the Streets4People Challenge | Mrs Kashmira Dubash | ITDP India | India |
| Pune’s street transformation journey | Mrs Kashmira Dubash | ITDP India | India |
| Minecraft and Mobility: using Minecraft for community participation | Ms Janene Tuniz | UN Habitat | Kenya |
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3/7: Walkshops
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Every Step of the Way | Mr Jim Walker | CEDEUS | Chile |
| Outdoor Navigation for People who are Blind or Vision Impaired: Experiences, Challenges and Future Directions | Ms Chantelle Smith | NCBI | Ireland |
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Plenary Session 4: Building for Walking: hard yards or easy street? *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Ministerial Address | Min Éamon Ryan | Min for Transport, Climate & Communications | Ireland |
| European Perspectives on Walking | Ciarán Cuffe, MEP | European Parliament | Ireland |
| Delivering Waterford Greenway & other city projects | Michael Walsh | Waterford City & County Council | Ireland |
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Panel: Overcoming challenges to deliver walking facilities
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Oddrun Helen Hagen | Institute of Transport Economics – Norwegian Centre for Transport | Norway |
| Anuela Ristini | Deputy Mayor of Tirana | Albania | |
| Robert Burns | Fingal County Council | Ireland | |
| Emilie Herssens | City of Brussels | Belgium | |
| TBC | City of Nairobi | Kenya |
15:30 - 16:00
Tea & Coffee
14:00 - 15:30
Parallel Sessions: Session 4/1: Making it inclusive: walking for everybody! *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Walking for Everyone | Ms Susan Claris | ARUP | UK |
| Intergenerational Pedibus | Ms Corine Kibora | ATE Association Transports et Environment | Switzerland |
| Walking-with: an intersectional perspective for the study of omitted bodies in the territory | Ms Karen Seaman | University of Chile | Chile |
| Woodlands for Health | Ms Niamh Ní Chonghaile | Mental Health ireland, Get Ireland Wlaking, Coillte | Ireland |
| Shared Space includes all people walking. | Dr Pieter de Haan | Knowledge Centre Shared Space | Netherlands |
14:00 - 15:30
Session 4/2: Planning walkable neighbourhoods and developments *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Via Parque | Dr Swami Lima | Municipality of Caruaru | Brazil |
| Building parking-free neighbourhoods to encourage walking and active mobility | Ms Emilie Roux | ATE Association Transports et Environment | Switzerland |
| Future Downtown Brainport – Eindhoven Knoop XL – a Place for People | Mr Erik van Hal | City of Eindhoven | Netherlands |
| Promoting walking through central urban regeneration | Dr Maja Karoline Rynning | Institute of Transport Economics | Norway |
| Incorporating walkability into municipal housing planning and development: Lisbon’s Affordable Renting Programme | Mr Paulo Cambra | U-Shift – Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon | Portugal |
14:00 - 15:30
Session 4/3: Designing streetscapes that work for everyone *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| New Slovenian national guidelines for pedestrian traffic infrastructure | Dr Kaja Pogacar | Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering & Architecture | Slovenia |
| The Public Bench – service station for pedestrians | Mrs Renate Albrecher | EPFL Ecole polytechnic fédéral de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| Beyond Tarmac: what communities really need to get them walking | Ms Anne Docherty | Living Streets | UK |
| Sensing Spaces: How the senses influence the choices we make when we walk | Ms Alexandra Gomes | LSE Cities | UK |
| How ‘open streets’ are transforming public space in French cities | Mr Pablo Carreras | Codra Conseil | France |
| From Monowalks to Winter Walks: Micro urban design measures in a winter city, for all age groups and mobilities | Prof Francisco Alaniz Uribe | University of Calgary | Canada |
14:00 - 15:30
Session 4/4: Talking the Walk: insights into how we think about walking *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Love Our Laneways: A model for engagement and re-imagination | Mr Aaron Copeland | A Playful City | Ireland |
| Trading off Time, Carbon, Active Travel and Health: what do people really think about traffic-reduction measures? | Dr Tom Cohen | Active Travel Academy, University of Westminster | UK |
| Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man: Social status associations with walking for transport | Ms Nadia Williams | Sustainable Transport & Mobility Research Group Technological University Dublin | Ireland |
| From Niche to Norm. How to make active mobility the norm? | Dr Sandra Wegener | University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Institute for Tansport Studies | Austria |
14:00 - 15:30
Session 4/5: Monitoring Impact: qualitative and quantitative data *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| In search for the pedestrian. Steps towards the development of a pedestrian monitor | Mr André De Wit | Municipality, City of Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| Walking fOR Health (WORtH) Study: reflections on the delivery of a feasibility randomised controlled trial of an intervention to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in people with severe mental illness | Prof Suzanne McDonough | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland | Ireland |
| Pedestrian typologisation – a sociological look at urban walkways | Mrs Renate Albrecher | EPFL Ecole polytechnic fédéral de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| The impact of the Community Made2Move Programme on Participants’ Daily Steps | Dr Fiona Chambers | University College Cork | Ireland |
| A decade of walking behaviour in Ireland 2011-2021: What changes have occurred and what will the next 10 years look like? | Dr Benny Cullen | Sport Ireland | Ireland |
14:00 - 15:30
Session 4/6: Walkshops
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Talking Nature in the City | Dr Ken Boyle | TU Dublin | Ireland |
| Walking the LIFELINE, a living laboratory connecting nature, people and place | Ms Kaethe Burt-O’Dea | desireland | Ireland |
TBC
Evening Walkshop
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Night Walking in Temple Bar: safety & enjoyment for all | Ms Leni Schwendinger | International Nighttime Design Initiative (NTD) | USA |
THURS 22 SEPT 2022
LOCATION: SPORT IRELAND CAMPUS
09:00
Round Tables
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Prioritising walking and cycling in the mobility mix this decade | Ms Jill Warren | European Cyclists’ Federation | Belgium |
| Financing for Walking | Mrs Carly Gilbert-Patrick | UNEP | Kenya |
| Everyday Archive | Ms Karen Seaman | NGO La Reconquista Peatonal | Chile |
| Handbooks to Transform Your Streets and Evaluate Them | Ms Najwa Doughman | GDCI | USA |
| Public Space and walkable areas: walking strategies in Austria | Mr Dieter Schwab | Austrian Federation of Pedestrians | Austria |
| Transferring the ’15-minute city’ principles to practice | Dr Luka Mladenovic | Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia | Slovenia |
| Exploring the role of purposive sampling in engaged citizen science to enhance walkability in cities | Mr David Buckley | TU Dublin | Ireland |
| Change your observation focus: pedestrian counts: exchange of practices | Mrs Emilie Herssens | Walk.Brussels ONG | Belgium |
| Walkability Tools | Mr Mario Alves | International Federation of Pedestrians | Portugal |
| Equity in the ‘walk space’: linking walkability with equity in informal settings | Ms Janene Tuniz | UN Habitat | Kenya |
10:00 - 10:30
Tea & Coffee
10:30
World Cafe for Safety & Security When Walking
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Ministerial Address | Hildergard Naughton | Minister for State | Ireland |
| Session Chair 1 | Dr Nhan Tran | Head of Safety and Mobility at the World Health Organisation. | |
| Pedestrian Safety | Angie Schmitt | USA | |
| Session Chair 2 – Security | Sheila Watson | Deputy Director, FIA Foundation and Chair of the SUM4ALL Gender Working Group. | |
| Gender and Public Space | Chris Blanche | Genre et Vill | France |
| Session chair 3 | TBC | ||
| What is safe? Using ‘perceptions of safety’ to support better transport planning | Mr Adrian Davis | University of the West of England | UK |
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
World Cafe: Consolidating the Conversation
Panel discussion with speakers & chairs discussing outcomes of the World Café and actions for the future
15:00 - 15:15
Comfort Break
15:15 - 16:00
Closing Plenary: Walking Purposefully on Through the Decade for Change *
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country |
| Closing Plenary | TBC | ||
| Conclusion Walk21 | Jim Walker | ||
| Handover | President TU Dublin | ||
| Next city invitation video | TBC |
FRI 23 SEPT 2022
MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Start times will vary
| Title | Author | Organisation | Country | Format |
| Howth Head Cliff Walk A case study on community management | Ken Boyle | TU Dublin | Ireland | Walkshop |
| Placeholder for submission for Limerick satelite event | Dr Madeleine Lyes | Ireland | Satelite Workshop | |
| Walk Waterford for Wellbeing: Celebrating the mental and social benefits of walking | Mr Dylan Power | Centre for Health Behaviour Research, Waterford IT | Ireland | Walkshop |
| TBC: Government Pathfinder projects workshop on location | TBC | TBC | Satelite Workshop | |
| TBC: Cork City Council & Get Ireland Walking | TBC | Cork City Council & Get Ireland Walking | Ireland | TBC |
| THE PEP |
POSTERS
| Title | Affiliation | Country | Author | ||
| Comparative Analysis of Pedestrian traffic volume and Quality of Street Space around Large Railway Stations Using Mobile Probe Data | Osaka City University | Japan | Mr Tomohito Nakai | ||
| The fresh streets of Sinaloa. Made for walking safely | Céntrico | Mexico | Mr Patricio Ruiz | ||
| Spring in Your Step: turning Kildare parkrun green for positive ageing walk | HSE | Ireland | Ms Denise Croke | ||
| Snailstep: mobile app, for cities with healthy DNA | SNAILSTEP | Spain | Ms Freyja Pérez Keller | ||
| João Alfredo: from a street to a shared space for all | Municipality of Porto Alegre / Municipal Department of Urban Mobility | Brazil | Mrs Ana Paula Hoppe Bonini | ||
| The challenges of appraising walking in Mobility as a Service: exploring MaaS solutions in the Paris region case | IRT SystemX and LGI, CentraleSupélec | France | Mrs Mariana Reyes | ||
| Schoolenvironment 2.0 | Voetgangersbeweging vzw | Belgium | Mrs Lieve Snoeckx | ||
| Notes on Walking: dandelion has no field | PhD Candidate on Walking | Sweden | Mr Sepa Sama | ||
| Making Walkable High Streets: a planning support tool for Czech cities | University of Ostrava | Czech Republic | Mrs Lenka Paszová | ||
| Education should start early | ITS Ireland | Ireland | Mr John Davis | ||
| “Praia dos Namorados” Lakefront Revitalisation Project | Americana City Hall | Brazil | Mrs Vanessa Oliveira | ||
| Analysis of Accessibility and Walkability to the main Public Facilities in the City of Fortaleza/CE – Brazil | Universidade de Fortaleza – Unifor | Brazil | Ms Leticia Costs | ||
| Ville et Marche au Quotidien: a collaborative event devoted to everyday walking | Académie Des experts en Mobilités Actives (ADMA) | France | Ms Elin Lundmark | ||
| Walking and Cycling in the School Environment | Friends Of Road for Mali | Mali | Mr Tessougue Temin Grégoire | ||
| Luas Finglas | Transport Infrastructure Ireland | Ireland | Ms Sarah O’Donnell | ||
| Make Way for Pedestrians: some news of France | Place aux Piétons | France | Ms Anne Faure | ||
| The Wayfinding Centre: what if people with a disability led public transport design? | NCBI | Ireland | Ms Chantelle Smith | ||
| Too young to die | Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA) | Botswana | Mr Maatla Energy Otsogile | ||
| Visualisation of Pedestrian Traffic Flow under Crowded Conditions on Urban Streets by Using Mobile Probe Data | Osaka City University | Japan | Mr Naotaka Nishimura | ||
| Collecting and Modelling Pedestrian Movement Volume for City Planning | Planet Urban Consultancy | Israel | Dr Yoav Lerman | ||
| Walkability as a potential for empowering women | Department of Architecture-Faculty of Engineering-Cairo University | Egypt | Ms Lobna Galal | ||
| Small-volume deliveries by foot and bicycle | Unigranrio/Afya; Unyleya; SENAC/Fatec. | Brazil | Prof Julio Cesar de Loureiro | ||
| The 15-minute City Concept: how can Innsbruck realise this goal? | Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria | Austria | Ms Silja Baumann | ||
| The Shortcut Map: an instrument for developing walkable neighbourhoods | Trage Wegen vzw | Belgium | Mrs Laura Nagels | ||
| A gamification-based intervention to encourage active travel | Intelligent Health | United Kingdom | Dr Marc Harris | ||
| Private Landowners Training Programme in the Killarney National Park Biosphere Reserve | Leave No Trace Ireland | Ireland | Dr Noel Doyle | ||
| Tactical Urbanism Workshop for Pedestrians as a Part of Good Design Izmir6 | Pedestrians’ Association – Yaya Derneği | Turkey | Mr Mustafa Tektek | ||
| Neighbourhood street redesign in small Slovenian town boosts walking | Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia | Slovenia | Mrs Mojca Balant | ||
| An affordable, dedicated automated sidewalk scanner | International Federation of Pedestrians | Belgium | Dr Geert van Waeg | ||
| Do people with lower back pain meet the physical activity guidelines?: data from three walking trials | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland | Ireland | Prof Deirdre Hurley | ||
| A study of pedestrian activity in a newly developed public space | TU Dublin | Ireland | Ms Ahlam Alanbouri | ||
| The Benefits of Nordic Walking for Women Over 50 & People with Long-Term Health Problems | Nordic Fitness Ireland | Ireland | Mrs Joanne Burke | ||
| Walking in Africa: understanding the barriers to walking for commuting | Uni Kassel | Germany | Ms Yana Tumkova |
