Hear from the program manager of the New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center, Charles Brown. As a recognized leader for livability and healthy communities and recipient of many notable transportation honors, Brown is a Senior Research Specialist at Rutgers University and also has extensive real-world practitioner experience. Also learn from local experts from the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta-area Bike Friendly Universities, and the City of Atlanta. Learn how others are working to improve bicycling opportunities and pedestrian facilities around Georgia State and Atlanta.
Panther Bikes Active Living Summit
Date
04/08
Time
10 am - 3 pm
Registration has now closed.
Charles T. Brown, MPA is a senior researcher with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) and adjunct professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, both at Rutgers University. He has 15 years of public and private sector experience in transportation planning, policy, and research. He also has extensive experience in community development having worked with municipal, county, and state government agencies, for-profit and non-profit organizations in three states: Mississippi, Florida and New Jersey.
He is considered a regional thought leader and a leading voice in encouraging equity and complete streets policy adoption and implementation in New Jersey. Since 2011, he has assisted more than 60 municipalities and three counties with adopting complete streets policies. During this time, he served as an instructor for twelve deliveries of the New Jersey Department of Transportation Complete Streets Course, and trained chronic disease coordinators throughout NJ on behalf of the New Jersey Department of Health.
He is currently an instructor of an advanced environmental justice course for the National Transit Institute and Federal Transit Administration, and a member of course faculty for the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors. He serves on many local and national advisory committees and as a board trustee with America Walks and the Urban League of Essex County (NJ). He is the recipient of several notable honors in transportation and receives invitations to speak locally, nationally, and internationally. His work has been featured by or quoted in the New York Times, NPR, Streetsblog Los Angeles and Chicago, CityLab, and various other national and local media outlets. He is a military veteran and a recipient of the Mississippi Commendation Medal and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.
Agenda
9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:10 a.m.
11:40 a.m.
12:10 p.m.
1:10 p.m.
1:40 p.m.
2:20 p.m.
2:50 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
3:10 p.m.
Sponsors
Registration
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Keynote Speaker - Charles Brown
Break
City of Atlanta - Becky Katz
Atlanta Regional Commission - Byron Rushing
Lunch
Atlanta Bicycle Coalition - Jordyne Krumroy
Bicycle Friendly University Panel
PEDs - Sally Flocks
Closing Remarks
Break
Optional Outdoor Tours (Bike or Walking)
2017 Panther Bikes Active living Summit
April 8, 2017
Registration has now closed. Check back next year for the next summit.
The Speakers
About Us
Keynote
Panther Bikes, formerly know as GSU Bikes which launched in August of 2009, is a student-led, interdisciplinary group focused on making the Georgia State University campus a bike-friendly area. Panther Bikes provides information and other services for bicycling and improving the environment in support of bicycling to, from, and on campus.
Our efforts are intended to encourage a shift from a motor-vehicle-centered campus to a bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly one. Our project includes the arts community with sustainability efforts, as public art helps to increase social capital. It also encourages healthy transportation, healthy people, and a healthy planet through cleaner air, improved land use, lower demand for natural resources and energy, and increased physical activity among the university community. We continue to research into encouraging bicycling among students, faculty, and staff; as well as increasing bicycling parking around GSU and social capital through public art.