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The Bike Futures Conference 2010 will be held at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 October. The Call for Papers is now open.
Conference sponsor and partners
30 August 2010 We extend a warm welcome to our conference sponsor, the Victorian Department of Transport, our other partners, Aurecon, Parks Victoria, the City of Melbourne and Sinclair Knight Merz, and to our exhibitors.
The Bike Futures Conference 2010 is endorsed by the Municipal Association of Victoria.
For more information about how your organisation can support the Bike Futures Conference 2010, click here.
We look forward to seeing you in October.
21 June 2010 We have analysed your responses to the first survey and also scrutinised your suggestions about how to refine the Draft Program for Bike Futures 2010.
Download the conference promotional postcard here.
Conference wraps up a hit
22 October 2009 The first Bike Futures conference concluded last week with attendees and presenters alike acclaiming it a success.
More than 100 delegates from around Australia and overseas gathered at the MCG to exchange the latest information on developing the next generation of bike friendly cities and towns.
Many of the presentations will be posted here in the coming months.
Keynote speaker, Niels Tørsløv, Traffic Director for the City of Copenhagen, made a strong impact on all present and was much in demand for interviews by the media around Australia.
Tørsløv showed that by a direct and unwavering commitment to improving infrastructure, especially the installation of separated bike lanes, rider numbers in Copenhagen have climbed inexorably.
The key was making it easy and convenient to chose a bike for travel.
There is strong political support for the high level of investment both from the right and the left of politics. This was despite the fact that in all developments car parking must be inside buildings or underground—no car parking is allowed on the street in any new development.
Second keynote speaker, David Sim, from Gehl Architects, who is working on bike strategies in New York and Mexico City, told the conference that while increased levels of bike riding was critically important, the overlooked benefit was that bikeable cities were vastly superior places to live than car based cities.
The great contribution of bikes was that they made our cities mush more interesting and human places.
Australia's major bike conference launched
Full program and list of speakers available here
Bicycle Victoria will host the first annual Bike Futures conference this October. Bike Futures '09 is dedicated to the people who will transform our communities into bike-friendly, economically thriving and sustainable environments.
This conference is the first in an annual series designed to assist national and local leaders, planners, designers and builders respond to the critical demands brought on by the explosion in growth of bike transportation and recreation across Australia.
We all have a massive challenge ahead of us: more of our citizens are riding, and riding more often; riding in places and at times that were never envisaged; placing stresses and strains on physical infrastructure and political patience alike.
Answers can be hard to come by in these resource-constrained times.
Bike Futures '09 is the key to unlocking the solutions that government professionals and community leaders require at the local, state and national level.
Over two days of intense sessions you and your colleagues will be exposed to the latest thinking on every major issue confronting communities moving to embrace the bicycle revolution.
The conference is presented by the Bicycle Network across Australia, and hosted by Bicycle Victoria, Australia's leading bike organisation, and an international pathfinder in the development of policy, planning and activities promoting the growth of bike riding.
Keynote speaker is Niels Tørsløv, Director of the Traffic Department at the City of Copenhagen, where he has guided the massive and unprecedented development of the bike transportation environment. Copenhagen will have 50 per cent of all trips by bike by 2020. Niels Tørsløv will show us how the Danish capital will get there.
Hosted at the MCG function centre, just minutes from the CBD, the event will comprise keynote and themed sessions across key disciplines, site visits, and a Conference Dinner.
The Conference is on Thursday 15 and Friday 16, October, in the middle of Melbourne's peak bike activity week which kicks off with Ride to Work Day on the Wednesday, takes in the Go Bike Expo, the finish of the Sun Tour on Saturday and concludes on Sunday with Around the Bay in a Day, the nation's largest mass participation ride event.
Further details will be available here as the Conference program is developed.
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