[Melb] Connecting Cycling Melbourne

In the public interest:

Connecting Cycling Melbourne, Thursday Feb 16th 9:30-4:30

Connecting Cycling Melbourne - Health & Culture in Planning for Bicycles is
a free 1 day event featuring speakers from a variety of fields. This is a
free event, lunch & refresements are included with your registration.

Keynote Speaker: John Pucher Ph.D. Professor of Urban Planning, Rutgers
University, USA
PUBLIC HEALTH: The Key to Public & Political Support for Walking & Cycling

9:30am - 4:30pm, Thursday, February 16th at the Department of
Infrastructure Theatrette, Level 29 80 Collins St, Melbourne
More information & RSVP (by Monday Feb 13th) please contact Elisabeth
Williams, Ph 9655 6227 elisabeth.williams@doi.vic.gov.au


Connecting Cycling Melbourne
Health & Culture in Planning for Bicycles

9:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday, February 16th
Department of Infrastructure
Level 29 Theatrette
80 Collins St, Melbourne

RSVP by Monday Feb 13th
Elisabeth Williams, Ph 9655 6227
elisabeth.williams@doi.vic.gov.au
This is a free event, lunch & refresements
are included with your registration

Keynote Speaker:
John Pucher Ph.D. Professor of Urban Planning, Rutgers University, USA
PUBLIC HEALTH: The Key to Public & Political Support for Walking & Cycling

Speakers

Jan Garrard
School of Health & Social Development - Deakin University
Changing travel 'cultures': the missing link in promoting active travel in
Australia?"

Elliot Fishman
Project Officer - North Yarra Community Health
Cycling for Transport and Health - A Community Project

Emma Dean
TravelSmart Project Officer - Department of Infrastructure
Cycle Smart - Interactive web program to support cycling

Harry Barber
CEO - Bicycle Victoria
Applying a Copenhagen approach to bicycle facilities in Swanston St

Tony Barton
Acting Manager Bicycle Program - Vic Roads
VicRoads' bicycle program, data & indicators, standards & guidelines &
on-line maps

David McCaffrey
Sustainable Transport Officer - City of Port Phillip
Developing the Cycle Plan 2005 - 2010, Taking pedal power to the streets

Susie Strain
Transport Planner - City of Melbourne
Developing the 2007 City of Melbourne Transport Strategy

Stephanie Potts
Senior Project officer, Engineering Programs - City of Melbourne
Sam Donato
Coordinator, Traffic Engineering - City of Melbourne
Developing the 2007 City of Melbourne Bicycle Strategy

I'm working that day, damn it.

I'll be in attendance - want a conference report/papers etc?

It would have been better if it was on a weekend so people could actually go. I would like to hear what they all have to say but am working. I have met david mccaffrey a while ago now and would be very interested to hear what he has implemented since landing the role as sustainable transport officer.

Received this from Dr John Pucher, and as I dislike powerpoint as the work of the Devil (turns head to one side, spits), I've turned John's presentation into a pdf file. A 36.0 MB pdf file. I could host it somewhere but I think it's stretching the friendship. If you want a copy, email the 24 hour cfsmtb helpdesk: cfsmtbATgmailDOTcom

The other pdf file John mentioned is here:
Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons From The Netherlands and Germany
http://www.yarrabug.org/wp-content/AJPH2003Article.pdf


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Dear Melbournian friends and colleagues,

It was really wonderful to meet you all during my five days in Melbourne. Several of you have requested the PPT file from my talk at the DOI and SLF events. I have posted the Melbourne PPT talk on my Uni Sydney website, and you can easily download it at:

http://www.itls.usyd.edu.au/johnp

Just click on the PPT that is labeled Melbourne. That should immediately download it for you. I would only ask that you cite me as the source in any further uses of this PPT file, please! I would really appreciate that. No problem at all with your further use of the PPT in the good cause, but PLEASE do be sure to cite me as the source and to cite this PPT with its title and date of presentation in Melbourne.
THANKS!

I am also attaching a PDF file of my article in the American Journal of Public Health, "Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons from Europe."

You can feel free to share that PDF file of the AJPH article with anyone who might be interested as well as to post it on any websites that might be appropriate.

Hope this is all useful to you, and I hope to see you all again in Melbourne if I can come back down there in May.

Your sustainable friend and colleague,
Car-free John

Prof. John Pucher
Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies
Faculty of Economics and Business
University of Sydney, C37
New South Wales 2006
Australia

Photos of John in Australia:
http://www.itls.usyd.edu.au/johnp/Fo...n%20Australia/
Webpage: http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher.html

Big thanks to Mr S. Stanley for getting the pdf down to at least 5mb. So I've hosted it on the YarraBUG website. Remember, if you want to reference this presentation, please cite John.

http://www.yarrabug.org/wp-content/M...SatFeb1806.pdf

check your gmail. it's 2.5Mb now

The trick is usually to set the Image Downsample options in Acrobat Distiller or Ghostscript to rescale images down to screen resolution. In both Distiller and GS, the "screen" preset does this. Given that most of the images in that document are photos, make sure that image compression uses JPEG (DCT) is used, not Flate (zlib/gzip).

and the pdf creator in the generic 'Office' package on a PC is ****e, creating huge files. bit like Word-generated html...

In article <ghostgum.23pie0@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com>,
ghostgum <ghostgum.23pie0@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:

> The trick is usually to set the Image Downsample options in Acrobat
> Distiller or Ghostscript to rescale images down to screen resolution.
> In both Distiller and GS, the "screen" preset does this.

Depends how small you want to go. I figured 5MB wasn't too bad, and that
left the images at 120dpi for reasonable A4 printing -- so us old farts
can still put it on paper.

--
Shane Stanley

On 2006-02-24, flyingdutch wrote:
> and the pdf creator in the generic 'Office' package on a PC is ****e,
> creating huge files. bit like Word-generated html...

You misspoke there, Dutchie. What Word generates is definitely *not*
HTML. It's something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike HTML.

It was, in short, put there to satisfy yet another "tick" on the
features checklist.

--
My Usenet From: address now expires after two weeks. If you email me, and
the mail bounces, try changing the bit before the "@" to "usenet".

Tidy does a decent job of making Word generated HTML compliant.