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ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
May 18 - 19, 2011 - North Little Rock
Notice of Non-Discrimination The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department complies with all civil rights provisions of Federal statutes and related authorities that prohibit discrimination in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance. Therefore, the Department does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion in the admission, access to, and treatment in the Department's programs and activities, as well as the Department's hiring and employment practices. Complaints of alleged discrimination and inquiries regarding the Department's nondiscrimination policies may be directed to James B. Moore, Jr., Section Head - EEO/DBE (ADA/504/Title VI Coordinator), P. O. Box 2261, Little Rock, AR 72203; (501)569-2298; (Voice/TTY 771); or to the following email address: [email protected]. This notice is available from the ADA/504/Title VI Coordinator in large print, on audiotape and in Braille.
_________________________
The preparation and publication of this document was financed in part by funds provided by the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, and Federal Transit Administration. The provision of Federal financial assistance should not be construed as denoting U.S. Government approval of plans, policies, programs or projects contained herein.
Arkansas Transportation Planning Conference
May 18 - 19, 2011
Wyndham Riverfront Hotel
North Little Rock
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department In cooperation with
Federal Highway Administration Arkansas’ Metropolitan Planning Organizations
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
AGENDA
Wednesday, May 18
8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration 9:00-9:15 a.m. Welcome
Scott Bennett, PE, Assistant Chief Engineer-Planning, Arkansas State Highway & Transportation Dept.
9:15-10:30 a.m. Livability/Sustainability - the FHWA Perspective Jim Thorne, Metropolitan Planning Specialist, FHWA Resource Center, Chicago
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break 10:45-11:30 p.m. Arkansas' Roundabout City The Honorable Tab Townsell, Mayor, City of Conway 11:30-1:00 p.m. Luncheon Speaker - “Context Sensitive Design
and Creation of Livable Cit ies” Scott Polikov, President, Gateway Planning Group,
Fort Worth Mr. Polikov has served as state director of the Texas Alternative Fuels Program, Board Member of the Austin Region’s Metropolitan Planning Organization and the local transit authority, Capital Metro. The Texas Transportation Commission (TxDOT) appointed him to Co-Chair a committee that updated TxDOT's Project Development Process Manual in order to recognize urbanism through local community plans as well as incorporating urban thoroughfares design criteria within the agency's roadway design manuals. 1:00-1:15 p.m. Break 1:15-2:30 p.m. Bicycle Transportation Planning & Design Statewide Bicycle Highlights - Bud Laumer, AICP, Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinator, AHTD New AASHTO Bicycle Design Guidance - Tom Huber,
AASHTO Bicycle Design Guide Committee Chair, Bicycle & Pedestrian Coordinator, Wisconsin DOT, Madison
2:30-2:45 p.m. Break
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE May 18 -19, 2011
Wyndham Riverfront - North Little Rock
Registration Name: Badge Name:
Address: MPO/Company City: State: Zip: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: If you require any special assistance or have any special dietary requirements, please specify (must notify by May 12). Please check: Full Registration - $100
Late Full Registration - $125 (after May 12)
MPO Policy Committee Members $30
Late Policy Committee Registration - $50 (after May 12)
Post Conference Workshop – Applying Bicycle Design Principles in the Field
$10 - Box lunch during pre-departure orientation
Will you be attending the networking reception at the Historic Arkansas Museum?
Yes No Additional guests _ x $15.00 each
TOTAL DUE $_______ No purchase orders, vouchers, or credit cards accepted.
You can also register on-line at: www.arkansashighways.com Please return this registration form by May 12 along with your check payable to: Arkansas Transportation Planning Conference and mail to:
Arkansas Transportation Planning Conference Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department P.O. Box 2261 Little Rock, AR 72203-2261
After May 12, please register on-site upon arrival.
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
Conference Fees:
Early Registration due by May 12, 2011
Full Registration $100 per person ($125 after May 12)
MPO Policy Board Members $30 per person ($50 after May 12)
Additional Reception Guests $15 per person
Mobile Workshop: Applying Bicycle Design Principles in the Field $10 per box lunch
Hotel:
Wyndham Riverfront #2 Riverfront Place
North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114 (501) 371-9000
(866) 657-4458 toll free Special rate of $88 per night (single occupancy, tax not included).
Mention the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department and be sure to confirm the rate.
The block of rooms is being held until April 26. Rooms at the
conference rate after that date are subject to availability.
Professional Continuing Education Credits
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) for selected sessions have been submitted for approval for Professional Engineers.
Additional questions?
Call (501) 569-2207
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
Wednesday, May 18 (continued)
2:45-4:15 p.m. MPO 101/Federal-aid 101 (concurrent session) Moderator: Gary DalPorto, Planning & Program Development Team Leader – FHWA – AR Division
Jim Thorne, Metropolitan Planning Specialist, FHWA Resource Center, Chicago
Ed Hoppe, PE, Engineer of Programs and Contracts, AHTD 2:45-4:15 p.m. The 2010 Census, the Census Transportation (concurrent session) Planning Program and the American Community
Survey Penelope Weinberger, CTPP Program Manager, AASHTO, Washington, DC
6:00–8:00 p.m. Reception at Historic Arkansas Museum
Thursday, May 19
7:30-8:00 a.m. Breakfast 8:00-9:30 a.m. Road Safety Audits
Craig Allred, Transportation Specialist, FHWA Resource Center, Denver
9:30-10:15 a.m. Freight Transportation Planning in a Rapidly
Changing World Bruce Lambert, Executive Director, Institute for Trade & Transportation Studies, New Orleans
10:15-10:30 a.m. Break 10:30-11:00 a.m. Civil Rights Compliance James Moore, EEO/DBE Coordinator, AHTD 11:00-11:30 a.m. Overview of the Arkansas Statewide Public
Transportation Needs Assessment James Wensley, Senior Transportation Planner, TranSystems, St. Louis
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
Thursday, May 19 (continued)
11:30-12:15 p.m. Regional Ecological Assessment Protocol (REAP) the Eco-Logical Project
Sharon Osowski-Morgan, Ecologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas 12:15-12:30 p.m. Conference Wrap-up
Scott Bennett, PE, Assistant Chief Engineer-Planning, Arkansas State Highway & Transportation Dept. NETWORKING RECEPTION
Historic Arkansas Museum 200 East Third Street - Little Rock
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. - Wednesday, May 18
Please join us for an early evening reception in the atrium and garden of the Historic Arkansas Museum to discuss the day’s presentations while you get acquainted with other conference attendees. Enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvre in one of Arkansas’ most historic locations. The Museum invites you to step back into Arkansas frontier history and visit a pre-civil war neighborhood in the middle of downtown Little Rock, including the oldest home still standing in Little Rock and the site where William Woodruff once printed the Arkansas Gazette. Inside the Museum Center, explore Arkansas-made art and artifacts in several galleries and see contemporary Arkansas art in another. The Museum Store will also be open where you can shop for contemporary crafts.
POST CONFERENCE MOBILE WORKSHOP Applying Bicycle Design Principles in the Field
Little Rock’s East-West Greenway
12:45-4:00 p.m. - Thursday, May 19 Leader: Bud Laumer, AICP, LAB LCI#2210, Bike/Ped Coordinator, AHTD Apply bicycle facility design principles discussed at the conference in this comprehensive post conference mobile workshop for planning professionals and others considering active transportation route identification in the communities where they work and live. We will start with a short briefing where a box lunch will be provided. Following distribution of maps and other documentation, participants will travel by van along the corridor to consider real world constraints and weigh options to address design challenges. The route presents a variety of challenges in the built and natural landscape allowing participants to consider facility design under very different conditions. City Staff will be on hand (City Parks, Planning, Transportation and Administration staff invited) to ensure a “real world” exercise where participant’s suggestions may just end up in a facility design. Walking shoes are recommended.
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
Thursday, May 19 (continued)
11:30-12:15 p.m. Regional Ecological Assessment Protocol (REAP) the Eco-Logical Project
Sharon Osowski-Morgan, Ecologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas 12:15-12:30 p.m. Conference Wrap-up
Scott Bennett, PE, Assistant Chief Engineer-Planning, Arkansas State Highway & Transportation Dept. NETWORKING RECEPTION
Historic Arkansas Museum 200 East Third Street - Little Rock
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. - Wednesday, May 18
Please join us for an early evening reception in the atrium and garden of the Historic Arkansas Museum to discuss the day’s presentations while you get acquainted with other conference attendees. Enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvre in one of Arkansas’ most historic locations. The Museum invites you to step back into Arkansas frontier history and visit a pre-civil war neighborhood in the middle of downtown Little Rock, including the oldest home still standing in Little Rock and the site where William Woodruff once printed the Arkansas Gazette. Inside the Museum Center, explore Arkansas-made art and artifacts in several galleries and see contemporary Arkansas art in another. The Museum Store will also be open where you can shop for contemporary crafts.
POST CONFERENCE MOBILE WORKSHOP Applying Bicycle Design Principles in the Field
Little Rock’s East-West Greenway
12:45-4:00 p.m. - Thursday, May 19 Leader: Bud Laumer, AICP, LAB LCI#2210, Bike/Ped Coordinator, AHTD Apply bicycle facility design principles discussed at the conference in this comprehensive post conference mobile workshop for planning professionals and others considering active transportation route identification in the communities where they work and live. We will start with a short briefing where a box lunch will be provided. Following distribution of maps and other documentation, participants will travel by van along the corridor to consider real world constraints and weigh options to address design challenges. The route presents a variety of challenges in the built and natural landscape allowing participants to consider facility design under very different conditions. City Staff will be on hand (City Parks, Planning, Transportation and Administration staff invited) to ensure a “real world” exercise where participant’s suggestions may just end up in a facility design. Walking shoes are recommended.
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
Conference Fees:
Early Registration due by May 12, 2011
Full Registration $100 per person ($125 after May 12)
MPO Policy Board Members $30 per person ($50 after May 12)
Additional Reception Guests $15 per person
Mobile Workshop: Applying Bicycle Design Principles in the Field $10 per box lunch
Hotel:
Wyndham Riverfront #2 Riverfront Place
North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114 (501) 371-9000
(866) 657-4458 toll free Special rate of $88 per night (single occupancy, tax not included).
Mention the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department and be sure to confirm the rate.
The block of rooms is being held until April 26. Rooms at the
conference rate after that date are subject to availability.
Professional Continuing Education Credits
Professional Development Hours (PDHs) for selected sessions have been submitted for approval for Professional Engineers.
Additional questions?
Call (501) 569-2207
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
Wednesday, May 18 (continued)
2:45-4:15 p.m. MPO 101/Federal-aid 101 (concurrent session) Moderator: Gary DalPorto, Planning & Program Development Team Leader – FHWA – AR Division
Jim Thorne, Metropolitan Planning Specialist, FHWA Resource Center, Chicago
Ed Hoppe, PE, Engineer of Programs and Contracts, AHTD 2:45-4:15 p.m. The 2010 Census, the Census Transportation (concurrent session) Planning Program and the American Community
Survey Penelope Weinberger, CTPP Program Manager, AASHTO, Washington, DC
6:00–8:00 p.m. Reception at Historic Arkansas Museum
Thursday, May 19
7:30-8:00 a.m. Breakfast 8:00-9:30 a.m. Road Safety Audits
Craig Allred, Transportation Specialist, FHWA Resource Center, Denver
9:30-10:15 a.m. Freight Transportation Planning in a Rapidly
Changing World Bruce Lambert, Executive Director, Institute for Trade & Transportation Studies, New Orleans
10:15-10:30 a.m. Break 10:30-11:00 a.m. Civil Rights Compliance James Moore, EEO/DBE Coordinator, AHTD 11:00-11:30 a.m. Overview of the Arkansas Statewide Public
Transportation Needs Assessment James Wensley, Senior Transportation Planner, TranSystems, St. Louis
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
AGENDA
Wednesday, May 18
8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration 9:00-9:15 a.m. Welcome
Scott Bennett, PE, Assistant Chief Engineer-Planning, Arkansas State Highway & Transportation Dept.
9:15-10:30 a.m. Livability/Sustainability - the FHWA Perspective Jim Thorne, Metropolitan Planning Specialist, FHWA Resource Center, Chicago
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break 10:45-11:30 p.m. Arkansas' Roundabout City The Honorable Tab Townsell, Mayor, City of Conway 11:30-1:00 p.m. Luncheon Speaker - “Context Sensitive Design
and Creation of Livable Cit ies” Scott Polikov, President, Gateway Planning Group,
Fort Worth Mr. Polikov has served as state director of the Texas Alternative Fuels Program, Board Member of the Austin Region’s Metropolitan Planning Organization and the local transit authority, Capital Metro. The Texas Transportation Commission (TxDOT) appointed him to Co-Chair a committee that updated TxDOT's Project Development Process Manual in order to recognize urbanism through local community plans as well as incorporating urban thoroughfares design criteria within the agency's roadway design manuals. 1:00-1:15 p.m. Break 1:15-2:30 p.m. Bicycle Transportation Planning & Design Statewide Bicycle Highlights - Bud Laumer, AICP, Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinator, AHTD New AASHTO Bicycle Design Guidance - Tom Huber,
AASHTO Bicycle Design Guide Committee Chair, Bicycle & Pedestrian Coordinator, Wisconsin DOT, Madison
2:30-2:45 p.m. Break
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE May 18 -19, 2011
Wyndham Riverfront - North Little Rock
Registration Name: Badge Name:
Address: MPO/Company City: State: Zip: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: If you require any special assistance or have any special dietary requirements, please specify (must notify by May 12). Please check: Full Registration - $100
Late Full Registration - $125 (after May 12)
MPO Policy Committee Members $30
Late Policy Committee Registration - $50 (after May 12)
Post Conference Workshop – Applying Bicycle Design Principles in the Field
$10 - Box lunch during pre-departure orientation
Will you be attending the networking reception at the Historic Arkansas Museum?
Yes No Additional guests _ x $15.00 each
TOTAL DUE $_______ No purchase orders, vouchers, or credit cards accepted.
You can also register on-line at: www.arkansashighways.com Please return this registration form by May 12 along with your check payable to: Arkansas Transportation Planning Conference and mail to:
Arkansas Transportation Planning Conference Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department P.O. Box 2261 Little Rock, AR 72203-2261
After May 12, please register on-site upon arrival.
ARKANSAS TRANSPORTATION PLANNING CONFERENCE
May 18 - 19, 2011 - North Little Rock
Notice of Non-Discrimination The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department complies with all civil rights provisions of Federal statutes and related authorities that prohibit discrimination in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance. Therefore, the Department does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion in the admission, access to, and treatment in the Department's programs and activities, as well as the Department's hiring and employment practices. Complaints of alleged discrimination and inquiries regarding the Department's nondiscrimination policies may be directed to James B. Moore, Jr., Section Head - EEO/DBE (ADA/504/Title VI Coordinator), P. O. Box 2261, Little Rock, AR 72203; (501)569-2298; (Voice/TTY 771); or to the following email address: [email protected]. This notice is available from the ADA/504/Title VI Coordinator in large print, on audiotape and in Braille.
_________________________
The preparation and publication of this document was financed in part by funds provided by the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, and Federal Transit Administration. The provision of Federal financial assistance should not be construed as denoting U.S. Government approval of plans, policies, programs or projects contained herein.
Arkansas Transportation Planning Conference
May 18 - 19, 2011
Wyndham Riverfront Hotel
North Little Rock
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department In cooperation with
Federal Highway Administration Arkansas’ Metropolitan Planning Organizations
