How to get the best from campaign groups:  What can campaigners offer and how can Local Authorities or businesses benefit?

Leicester Cycling Campaign Group believes cycling should be an easy and pleasant way for anyone to travel.  We try to influence issues, especially infrastructure design, that can make it unpleasant.  As volunteers, we have the capacity to share expertise and research with local government, media and communities.

Elizabeth Barner, & Eric Ludlow, Leicester Cycling Campaign Group

Women and cycling

The presentation will review the changing face of women’s cycling and how Giant reacted to the market by introducing Liv - a dedicated women’s brand.  The Liv brand is at forefront of cycling providing the best women’s specific bikes, apparel and gear along with a welcoming retail experience.  The presentation will review the Liv brand and it’s ethos of inspiring and creating opportunities for all female cyclist as well as looking at the future for developing and growing the market share.

Collette Clensy, Marketing Manager, Giant Bicycles

NIHR Diet Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit

The Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity BRU based in Loughborough and Leicester explores how our own behaviour affects our health and might make us ill. We specialise in measuring health, measuring activity using technology and the prevention and management of diabetes and kidney disease. The BRU benefits from world class facilities and expertise at the Leicester Diabetes Centre at the General Hospital and the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine at Loughborough University.

Rebecca Pritchard, NIHR

The Modeshift STARS system

Modeshift STARS is the national schools awards scheme that has been established to recognise schools that have demonstrated excellence in supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable travel. The scheme encourages schools across the country to join in a major effort to increase levels of sustainable and active travel in order to improve the health and well-being of children and young people.

Nick Butler, Senior Transport Planner, Modeshift

Resilient Infrastructures by Witteveen+Bos

What kind of places do you love to visit on foot and bike? Hear about and discuss simple, quickly-implemented low-cost improvements that can make a real difference, initiatives that invite people of all ages to walk, cycle and use their streets as social spaces.

Richard Lewis,Director, Witteveen+Bos

The White Peak Loop - Overcoming challenges and delivering a high quality multi-user trail in the Peak District National Park

The presentation explores how, as part of the Pedal Peak Project, and the wider White Peak Loop, Derbyshire County Council is proposing to extend the existing Monsal Trail from Bakewell through the Haddon Estate to Rowsley and following the route of the railway line to Matlock.

Morna Dudeney, Senior Engineer, AECOM

Protected cycle lanes in Salford - Case Study of the Longest Light Segregation Scheme in the UK

This is a case study of the longest light segregation scheme in the UK

Lee Evans, Salford City Council & Neil Brownbridge, Regional Director, AECOM (representing TfGM)

The Gosforth Corridor

Robert Snowball, Senior Specialist Transport Planner, Newcastle City Council

The Gosforth Corridor is strategically important for people on buses, bikes, in cars while also being a local retail centre and serving residential properties and schools. It connects the A1 at one end up to Newcastle city centre at the other.  Increasingly issues with congestion, pollution, traffic noise, public transport reliability and in particular road safety ( despite being less than 1% of all traffic, people on bikes suffer 10% of all injuries on this corridor) have been experienced.

The Gosforth Transport Improvements have seen the development of a strategic cycle route along the Corridor. The aim is to encourage people of all ages to cycle who currently do not feel sufficiently confident or safe to cycle to do so as well as to improve convenience for existing cyclists.  This session will provide an overview of this project.  

Cycle Superhighway 5 – protecting cyclists through busy junctions

This session will look at how CS5 has provided protected cycle facilities through a busy network in south London, including maintaining capacity at junctions, Vauxhall Gyratory and the interaction with Vauxhall transport interchange

Carolyne Paul, Design Manager TfL in-house design team (Outcomes Delivery) 

A String of Pearls - The Luton Dunstable Busway (LDB)

Opened in 2013, the Luton & Dunstable Busway incorporates a parallel 9km traffic free cycleway passing close to a number of key development sites, the ‘String of Pearls.’ Luton and Central Bedfordshire Councils are now working together to develop a comprehensive network of cycle routes linked to the cycleway.

Rod Black, Sustainable Travel Manager, Luton Borough Council

Choosing the best cycling infrastructure – what do cyclists want and what do they actually do

In Bedford, we based our LSTF plans on a survey of over 200 cyclists as to what kind of infrastructure they wanted and what routes they took. Compared to the views of 16,000 cyclists and non-cyclists from other surveys, this will ensure best value for money in any new cycle infrastructure

Patrick Lingwood, Snr Walking and Cycling Officer, Bedford Borough Council

Securing funding for cycle schemes, directly and indirectly

Despite cycling and walking moving up the agenda direct funding from the Department for Transport is reducing. Alternative sources of funding are required to support delivery and increase the number of people walking and cycling. For example, maximising opportunities in the Local Growth Funds, building on Developer contributions and working with Highways England to cycle proof highway schemes adjacent to the Strategic Road Network.

Helen Ellerton, Prinicpal Consultant, AECOM

Sustainable Safety, and the need for its application in Britain

The presentation will focus on the fundamental principles of this approach to road safety, its relationship to changes recently advocated with ’Space for Cycling’ and ‘Go Dutch’ campaigns and its benefits. Particularly, it will examine the role it plays in the design of attractive roads and streets for all users, mainly through the principle of monofunctionality, which involves separating, as much as possible, the flow of traffic from everyday human activity.    

Alex Ingram, Board Member, Cycle Embassy of Great Britain

National application of the Freight Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS)

The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is a voluntary accreditation scheme encompassing all aspects of safety, fuel efficiency, vehicle emissions and improved operations. FORS helps fleet operators to measure and monitor performance and alter their operations in order to demonstrate best practice. It is open to operators of vans, lorries, mini-buses, coaches and other vehicles, and to the organisations that award contracts to those operators.

Johan Els, AECOM

Bostin Bikes: Removing the barrier of bike ownership and increasing on road cycle training

The first ‘Bostin Bike’ pilot was focused on the Black Country's 4 local authorities, as 43% of the Black Country LSOA's are within the most 20% deprived areas of England. The scheme provides a brand new bicycle, helmet, set of lights and D-lock to residents for £50, on the condition that they complete Level 1 and Level 2 national standard training delivered by BikeRight! The pilot saw 200 bikes allocated.  The second ‘Bostin Bike Commuter’ pilot is focussing on Black Country businesses.  

Mitchell Robinson, Sustainable Travel Officer, Centro & Daniel Morris, Business Development Manger, BikeRight!

Hertfordshire: A leading Bikeability County

Bikeability is a key part of Hertfordshire’s plan to get people moving more safely and more often through a  sustainable mode of transport. Cycle training through schools, businesses and individual clients across the county with ever increasing demand.

Nick Truran, Sustainable Travel Officer - Cycling, Hertfordshire County Council