A launch meeting for the North East regional group will take place on Monday 12 December, 11 am to 2 pm at the Newcastle Civic Centre in the Carliol Room. Anyone interested in presenting or otherwise attending, please contact our North East Regional Representative Don Kent at don@acttravelwise.org or on 07931 978771.
Following upon a regional launch event back in May, the second Yorkshire & The Humber regional meeting will be held in Leeds on Wednesday 7 December 2016 at West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA), Wellington House, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 2DE (just across the road and to the left from Leeds Station). Titled 'The Future is…………Shared', the event will feature presentations from Alistair Kirkbride and Antonia Roberts of Carplus Bikeplus.
Act TravelWise and the Travel and Transport TSN (Topic Support Network) of the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC)would like to invite those working on travel and transport within universities, colleges, the public sector and other organisations within Scotland to their winter meeting. This meeting is an opportunity to hear from organisations and projects active in the sector, and network with those working in similar roles and organisations.
Representatives of Carplus, Liftshare and travelknowhowscotland.co.uk will be present to introduce different travel schemes and to explore how institutions and organisations can interact with them to reduce negative impacts of travel and transport while improving accessibility. Cycling Scotland will offer insights on their internship scheme and how this helped to further promote sustainable transport.
Following upon a successful and well attended third meeting of our NHS Travel & Transport Managers' Forum on 13 September, the forum's fourth meeting will be held on Thursday 24 November from 2:00-4:00 pm at BuroHappold in London, with an option to join via teleconference.
Act TravelWise members will receive a 20% discount on registration for the first Better Places Symposium, Thursday 24 November at The KIA Oval in London. This event will look at how forward-thinking towns and cities are adopting new strategies and tactics to deliver safer, cleaner and people-friendly places.
The annual conference of the RTPI-TPS Transport Planning Network, titled 'Development around Transport Hubs' will be held in Birmingham on Monday 21 November 2016 from 1 pm - 6 pm. The conference will explore the government's agenda for delivering housing around transport hubs, and discuss how we plan sustainable transit-oriented developments.
This year's Cyclenation - Cycling UK Campaigners Conference will be held in St Albans on Saturday 19 November. This will be followed by a 'cycling infrastructure safari' on Sunday 20 November in central London. Tickets are £15. For details and programme, see http://www.cyclenation.org.uk/conference
The second Total Transport Northern Group (TTNG) Conference, titled 'Delivering Smarter Health Transport', will be held in Doncaster on 11 November 2016. Total Transport is the pan-Government transport initiative to ensure that every £1 spent on transport is maximised. The conference is free to attend. Keynote address by Andrew Jones MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport and presentations by various healthcare partners. East Riding of Yorkshire Council is organising the event with support from nine other Northern local authorities that have all received DfT Total Transport Pilot funding.
The next meeting of the South West regional group will take place on Tuesday 11 October 2016 hosted by BANES (location TBC).
The next meeting of the South East regional group will be held on Tuesday 11 October at Motion’s offices in Guildford.