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McKeown: Designing Streets for Health (Afternoon Keynote 1)

The way we build our cities impacts health. Healthy Toronto by Design described the many factors that influence health in an urban environment. Creating an environment that supports walking, cycling...

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Pucher: Streets for Everyone: Lessons from Cities across the Globe (Morning...

Cities need a truly integrated network of complete streets in order to make alternatives to the car feasible, safe, and attractive.  Evidence shows that complete streets result in increased walking,...

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Understanding Complete Streets in the Greater Golden Horseshoe: An Online...

As a part of the 2014 York Region Bike Summit on Nov 19, 2014, TCAT researcher Colin Wolfe presented preliminary work on the Complete Streets Online Catalogue and Audit Tool under development with...

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Complete Streets Catalogue

  The Complete Streets Catalogue: Understanding Complete Streets in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region features projects from 19 municipalities that reflect the diversity of Complete Streets...

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Simcoe Street Case Study

On December 18, 2014, TCAT released the Complete Streets Catalogue: Understanding Complete Streets in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region with funding from the Places to Grow Implementation Fund. The...

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Shellard Lane Case Study

On December 18, 2014, TCAT released the Complete Streets Catalogue: Understanding Complete Streets in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region with funding from the Places to Grow Implementation Fund. The...

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Cannon Street Case Study

On December 18, 2014, TCAT released the Complete Streets Catalogue: Understanding Complete Streets in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region with funding from the Places to Grow Implementation Fund. The...

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Square One Drive Case Study

On December 18, 2014, TCAT released the Complete Streets Catalogue: Understanding Complete Streets in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region with funding from the Places to Grow Implementation Fund. The...

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Complete Streets Evaluation Tool

Complete Streets Evaluation: Understanding Complete Streets in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region was developed based on a review of Complete Streets documents from 26 municipalities across North...

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Complete Streets Policy & Implementation Guide for Grey Bruce

  In February, 2015 TCAT, in collaboration with MMM Group, was commissioned by the Grey Bruce Health Unit to prepare a Complete Streets Policy & Implementation Guide for Grey Bruce. The goal of...

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Gilman: Uncontrolled Marked Crosswalks in New York City

Prior to 2014, New York City did not install uncontrolled crosswalks. Although it is hard to imagine, NYC has many intersections where controls are unwarranted under federal guidelines, but have enough...

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Gagnon: Two innovative municipal norms supportive of safe active travel

This presentation by Dr. François Gagnon, Research Officer, National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy, will cover two municipal norms that currently are being implemented in many European...

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Edwards: Regional Road Characterization: Integrating Transportation and Land Use

Lindsay Edwards, Principal Planner, Region of Peel. The Region of Peel saw the need to become more proactive in planning to keep people and goods moving efficiently throughout the Region, while...

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Diepens: The Right to Come Home: Shared Space, Woonerfs, and Safe Streets for...

Johan Diepens, CEO, Mobycon. The Dutch approach to Vision Zero, called Sustainable Safety, is a robust policy framework whose principles are grounded in decades of scientific data and extensive...

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Clarke: Complete Streets – Moving from Concept to Reality

Whereas there is an abundance of policy and guidelines available, this presentation by Ron Clarke, Manager of Urban Planning and Design, Parsons Inc. will focus on implementation and the successful...

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Boudreau & Cheung: Toronto Green Streets: Moving Green Infrastructure – from...

Green Streets refer to streets designed with green infrastructure measures that provide ecological services such as storm water management and urban heat island mitigation. Green Streets also help to...

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Shahum: Envisioning Safety for all Road Users: The Promise & Potential of...

In a transformative shift of thinking about safe mobility, cities across North America are embracing Vision Zero: a commitment to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries among all road users....

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Davis: Who is ALL and what is Complete? A New Way Forward for Engineers...

“Complete Streets”. “Complete Networks”. “Vision Zero”. These are all ways of rethinking how we plan and design our transportation systems. However, a key to successful implementation is engaging “all”...

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Marohn: Responding to Congestion with Complete Streets (Keynote)

Transportation will look different in the next version of the North American city. Those places focused on fighting automobile congestion by traditional engineering methods will find themselves losing...

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Campbell: Why Complete Streets are Healthy Streets (Keynote)

Using findings from new Toronto Public Health reports, in this presentation Dr. Monica Campbell, Director of Healthy Public Policy, Toronto Public Health, provides an overview of how and why Complete...

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