2026 Conference Program

Breakfast

Provided to all registered attendees.

Welcome Remarks and Opening Keynote Session

• Panel featuring Local Pittsburgh Leaders

• Trails as Part of a Complete Transportation Network
• Coming out of the Shadows: How to Plan, Design, and Build Safe and Attractive Night-time Networks for People Walking and Biking at Night
• Pittsburgh's Holistic Approach to Signal Design and Traffic Operations
• Translating AT Visitation into local economic dollars: Research in Action

advance Registration required (opens in july)

• Walking Tour: Safe Sidewalks Crew Assessment Tool Demo and Walk
• Biking Tour: Multimodal Mon-Valley: How Former Steel Sites were Reborn with Trails and Bike Lanes

• Crosswalks, Curb Extensions, and Colors, Oh My!
• From Walks to Wheels: Creative Ways to Engage Communities in Safer Streets
• How to Create or Advance your Active Transportation Data Program
• Youth on the Move: Strategies for Safe E-Bike Use Across Ages and Communities

Lunch on your own

BIPOC Affinity Workshop

• How municipalities can make car-lite living easier through public-private and nonprofit partnerships that increase access to electric-assist cargo bikes
• Defining Low-Stress Cycling for All Ages and Abilities: A Next Generation BLTS and Exploration of Psychological Drivers of Stress Tolerance
• Application of Data-Driven Systemic Safety Analysis to Prioritize Segments and Intersections

advance Registration required (opens in july)

• Walking Tour: Art Walk on the Allegheny
• Biking Tour

Exhibit & Poster Halls Open

• Deep Dive on Delineators: How Cities are Separating Bikes and the Impacts of Delineators on Behavior
• How Current Events in Washington DC are affecting Biking and Walking
• When Streets Hold Stories: Lessons from San Francisco’s Folsom Street and New York City DOT’s Open Streets Program on Design, Preserving Cultural Identity, and Collective Memory
• Mobility Justice: Lifting Voices to Create Safe Spaces

Happy Hour with Exhibitors & Poster Displays

Breakfast

Keynote Speaker

Announcing Very Soon!

• Engaging through the Arts: Three innovative Methods for Multi-generational Engagement on bike/ped Infrastructure Projects
• Co-Creating Neighborhood Traffic Safety Solutions with Community
• How Today's Arterials Can Meet Tomorrow's Needs

Chapter Leadership Session

This open, roundtable style session will provide time to meet and network with chapter leaders to discuss key areas such as executing successful events, growing APBP membership locally, chapter leadership succession planning, and more. If you’re a current APBP Chapter Leader, just interested in this role, or if you would like to learn more about starting a chapter in your area, this session is for you.

Exhibitor & Poster Viewing

Plenary Session

Quick Shot Presentations and Student Poster Presentations.

Lunch on your own

advance Registration required (opens in july)

• Bus/Walking Tour: PRT Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Tour and Walk

• Inherited Cities: What Millennial Women Survived and What Gen Z Will Redesign
• The Future of Micromobility and E-Biking: Maximizing Benefits and Reducing Risks through Responsible Stewardship

• MnDOT's Separated Bike Lane Guidance: Planning, Scoping, Design & Maintenance
• People, Politicians, and Green Paint: Engagement that Moves

Exhibitor & Poster Viewing

APBP Business Meeting & Awards Presentation

Optional Dine-Arounds

advance Registration required (opens in july)

• Walking Tour: Troy Hill Walking Stair Tour
• Walking Tour: Downtown Public Realm Walking Tour

Breakfast

• How Many Ways Can You Slice a Narrow Street?

• Engagement That Works: Best Practices in Community-Driven Solutions
• The CAN Initiative: Boulder's approach to accelerating Vision Zero
• Beyond the Sidewalk: Evidence on LPIs + Curb Extensions and an Implementation Playbook for Sidewalk Extensions

• Biking Tour: Riverlife’s Loop
• Walking Tour: Monongahela Incline Tour

• From Plan to Pavement: The Story Behind Austin's Quick Build Success
• Lessons from prioritizing Pedestrians/Bicyclists on neighborhood streets
• Making Data Count: From Active Transportation Databases to Safer, Multimodal Streets
• Telling their Stories

APBP Conference Adjourns

State Bike/Pedestrian Coordinator’s Meeting