Hi All,
There are a number of interesting webinars
coming up in the next few months, including:
1) Cycle
Zone Analysis: A New Bicycle Planning Tool - January 21st,
2-3pm
2) The Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator -
January 27th, 11-12:30pm
3) The Canadian Walkability
Roadshow - February 3rd, 11-12:30pm
4) Individualized
Marketing: Where do we go from here? - March 3rd, 11-12:30pm
The
Eco-Centre boardroom will be a host site for the above webinars. If you
are interested in attending any of these webinars, please RSVP to jessie@resourceconservation.mb.ca
or 925-3772. The first webinar is already filling up fast, with only 5
seats left.
More information follows on each of the
webinars.
Thanks, and hope to see you there!
Jessie
Klassen
Workplace Transporation Demand Management
Resource
Conservation Manitoba
jessie@resourceconservation.mb.ca
(204)
925-3772
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January 21, 2009: Cycle Zone
Analysis: A New Bicycle Planning Tool
Learn about Portland's (Ore.) new
bicycle planning
tool, Cycle Zone Analysis. Find out how this tool
helps
planners more accurately assess bicycling micro-environments and fine-tune
improvements to cycling conditions.
Register at
www.bikewalk.org/webinar.php
January 27, 2009: The Urban Transportation
Emissions Calculator (UTEC)
UTEC is a free, user-friendly, web-based tool
developed by Transport Canada that estimates greenhouse gas and criteria air
contaminant emissions from urban transportation. It can be used in a wide
variety of contexts involving different vehicle types (e.g., cars, commercial
trucks, buses, light rail), fuel technologies (e.g., gasoline, diesel, hybrid,
ethanol, biodiesel, etc.), and planning horizons (2006-2031).
The Tool
has recently been upgraded with a new user interface, more recent emission
factors and fuel efficiencies, and additional vehicle and fuel technologies.
This webinar will provide an introduction to the upgraded tool and case studies
of how it can be used to estimate emissions and emissions savings for different
transit and transportation projects.
Transport Canada's Urban
Transportation Showcase Program is paying for the first 85 Canadian connections
to participate at no cost. Register
at:
www.webinars.cullbridge.com
February 3, 2009: The
Canadian Walkability Roadshow
The Canadian "Walkability Roadshow" is both a
model for how to engage communities of all sizes in promoting walking, and a
program available to Canadian communities interested in doing so. It involves a
questionnaire completed my municipal staff in related departments, a needs
analysis workshop, subsequent homework, site visits by international experts,
the development of local pedestrian action plans, and the securing of
commitments from key decision makers.
Transport Canada's Urban
Transportation Showcase Program is paying for the first 85 Canadian connections
to participate at no cost. Register
at:
www.webinars.cullbridge.com
March 3, 2009: Individualized
Marketing: Where Do We Go From Here? (Discussion Panel and Case
Study)
Individualized Marketing has proven highly effective across North
America, as well as in Europe and Australia, for reducing vehicle trips and
increasing walking, cycling and transit use. This special 90-minute webinar
features a case study of one such program, followed by a discussion panel on how
to engage additional audiences and increase the cost-effectiveness and
practicality of the approach for a wider range of communities.
The case study
is on the TravelSmart pilots conducted in six different Vancouver neighbourhoods
with differing urban environments and levels of transit service. The
result was an 8% reduction in vehicle trips and a corresponding increase in
walking, transit use and cycling.
Members of the discussion panel have been
selected from municipalities across North America (Portland, Raleigh/Durham,
Seattle, and Vancouver) that have implemented and evaluated the
approach.
Transport Canada's Urban Transportation Showcase Program is paying
for the first 85 Canadian connections to participate at no cost. Register
at:
www.webinars.cullbridge.com