Active Travel for all ages

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Active travel for all ages
23 October 2024 - 11:00-12:30 - Online


With well-known benefits, walking, wheeling, and cycling are great ways to move around in our cities. However, for kids, teenagers, and older adults, being able to travel actively might be a key determinant of their mobility and participation in public and social life. In addition to sustainable mobility advantages, walking, wheeling, and cycling can bring independence, social interactions, access to education, work and leisure activities, and a healthy and active lifestyle that does not rely on motor vehicles or, in some cases, even public transport.

For this year's Urban October, the Active Travel & Health Working Group is organising an interactive webinar delving into the relevance of walking, wheeling and cycling for kids, teenagers, and older adults. We will explore the central aspects that are specific to these age groups and what is being done and still to be done to enable and foster safe, comfortable and desirable active travel choices. Join us to learn, discuss, and exchange examples of programs, solutions and studies that focus on active travel for all ages.


Draft agenda

In this webinar, we will be featuring POLIS members such as Sustrans in sharing their studies and findings on how active travel is essential for kids, teenagers and older adults, or Turku’s measures and experiences supporting kids' active mobility, and more!

Find out more in the draft agenda listed below.

  • 11h00: Welcome and Intro – POLIS
  • 11h10: Sustrans and active travel for all ages in the UK – Andy Cope, Sustrans
  • 11h20: Promoting active travel for kids in Turku, FI Anna-Kaisa Montonen, City of Turku
  • 11h30: Bicicultura changing the streets of Lisbon, PT – Ana Pereira, Bicicultura
  • 11h40: Community-based projects to promote safe and healthy walking to school: Good practices and success stories – Sandra Nascimento, Apsi Portugal
  • 11h50: Promoting active travel in a time of population ageing: the case of urban cycling – Dr Wilbert den Hoed, Delft University of Technology /  Faculty of Geography - Universitat Rovira i Virgili 
  • 11h50-12h30: Panel discussion and Q&A


For questions, please contact Andréia Lopes Azevedo at alopes@polisnetwork.eu


When
23 Oct 2024 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Event Zoom Notes
Event Zoom Notes Federica Raiti - federica.raiti_esterni@linksfoundation.com , Cajsa Andersson - cajsa.andersson@lund.se , Olivia Mas Preciado - ompreciado@urbana.gr , Evelina Faliagka - efaliagka@urbana.gr , Liv Øvstedal - liv.rakel.ovstedal@vegvesen.no , Pedro Homem de Gouveia - pgouveia@polisnetwork.eu , Emilie Couwenberg - emilie.couwenberg@antwerpen.be , Ivone Bastos - ibastos@apsi.org.pt , Annalisa Gozzi - agozzi@polisnetwork.eu , Oona Uusitalo - oona.uusitalo@turku.fi , Maite Dewinter - maite.dewinter@ugent.be , Patrice Morandas - patrice.morandas@cerema.fr , Karma Islam - karma.islam@eiturbanmobility.eu , Dmytro Roslavtsev - d.roslavtsev@kname.edu.ua , Olha Plyhun - olga.plygun@kname.edu.ua , Jone Morina - jonemorina@gmail.com , Georgios Farfaras - greenwayscoop@gmail.com , ALFONSO MOLINA RICO - amolina@citylogin.com , Josie Willman - jwillman@civiltechinc.com , Lamprini Papafoti - lamprini@factual-consulting.com , Dmytro Petsiy - dmytrometa@gmail.com , Margarida Coelho - mcoelho@cma.m-almada.pt , Antonia NIKOLOVA - antonia.nikolova@euroquality.fr , Mykyta Biriukov - biryukovn1994@gmail.com , Carlotta Inserra - cinserra@polisnetwork.eu , Andrea Rosso - andrea.rosso@linksfoundation.com , Giulia Melis - giulia.melis@linksfoundation.com , Aişe İÇLİ - aise.icli@konya.bel.tr , Magdalena Makar - magdalena@odraz.hr , Marcel Van den Elzen - marcel.van.den.elzen@helmond.nl , Maarten De Schepper - maarten.deschepper@hasselt.be , Emma Young - emma.young@tfgm.com , Jan-Albert de Leur - leurj@noord-holland.nl , Joana Rodriguez Bergadà - rodriguezbj@vic.cat , Leire Balzategui Urrutia - lbalzategui@mobilitylab.eus , PEDRO FERNANDEZ - fernandezlped@madrid.es , IASON SIOUTIS - iasonas.sioutis@iccs.gr , Francisco Benito - fbenito@ava.es , Sissi Koronaiou - sissi.koronaiou@inlecomsystems.com , Jonathan De Vriendt - jdevriendt@polisnetwork.eu , Dorothea Schillerwein - dorothea.schillerwein@vm.bwl.de , joonas pekkanen - joonas.pekkanen@kausal.tech , Helena Runesson - helena.runesson@lund.se , Danica Zivadinovic - danica.zivadinovic@krusevac.rs , Noora Reittu - noora.reittu@forumvirium.fi , Johannes Mesimäki - johannes.mesimaki@vtt.fi , Eva Grigoriadou - egrigoriadou@urbana.gr , Johanna Lange - johanna.lange_esterno@linksfoundation.com , Giorgos Antoniou - gio.antoniou@gmail.com , Laurie Pickup - laurie.pickup@eiproject.eu , Alessia Giorgiutti - agiorgiutti@polisnetwork.eu , Alexia Collignon - acollignon@polisnetwork.eu.
Unmatched Zoom Participants POLIS Network - polis@polisnetwork.eu , Wilbert den Hoed - wilbert.denhoed@urv.cat , Sandra Nascimento - snascimento@apsi.org.pt , Ana Pereira - anapereira@bicicultura.org , Cajsa Andersson - cajsa.andersson@lund.se.
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Event - Working Groups
Working Groups Working Group on active travel (incl. bike share)