This Fireside Chat is in collaboration with the Centre for Health Promotion, Public Health Agency of Canada

Many small, medium and large Canadian municipalities are proactivity promoting more active lifestyles and transportation to curb obesity, reduce greenhouse gases, and address the economic costs of vulnerable road user (VRU) injuries and deaths. The safe use of roads and pathways by VRUs (e.g. pedestrians and cyclists) is important to enable and encourage communities that are more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. 

The Fireside Chat presentation will highlight the results from a comprehensive review of Canadian promising practices that promote the safe use by VRUs of off/on-road facilities, especially shared-use facilities, as well as identify successful VRU safety education and enforcement programs. It will highlight communities across Canada that are successfully educating and enforcing the proper use of new built environment features intended to promote active transportation. 

This Fireside Chat will be of interest to community decision-makers, such as councillors, planners, engineers, public health practitioners, and other road safety stakeholders, with a goal to help them facilitate safer walking and cycling in increasingly crowded spaces. 
 
Advisor on Tap:

Dr. Gordon Lovegrove, PEng, MBA 
Associate Professor, 
School of Engineering, 
Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia

Dr. Lovegrove is the UBC’s School of Engineering’s expert in applied sustainable civil engineering.  Dr. Lovegrove was awarded a grant by the Canada Foundation for Innovation to set up his Sustainable Road Safety (SRS) Research Lab.  He has worked variously as a project and transportation engineer and consultant for over 20 years in communities throughout BC, and is regularly asked to speak on sustainable communities and transportation at conferences across the world.  His leadership has facilitated research, planning, and implementation of projects emphasizing the promotion of sustainable land use and transportation.