3 November 2026 Programme
Please note that the programme is under development
08:45
Registration: Tea & Coffee served in the exhibition area
09.30
The Theatre
Morning Plenary: making walking the easy choice
CWIS3 treats walking as part of the whole transport system, stressing that virtually every public-transport journey starts and ends with a walking, wheeling or cycling stage. This connects CWIS3 with the government's wider Better Connected integrated-transport agenda. This session will look at how new policy directions and funding commitments are supporing pedestrians – and at what else else needs to be done
Chair: Dom Smith, UK Active Travel Lead, Steer
Panellists include:
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Catherine Woodhead, Chief Executive, Living Streets
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Nicola Marshall, Director of Active Lives and Safer Roads, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
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Jan Burkhardt, Knowledge Mobilisation Lead for Children’s Physical Activity, JU:MP/Born In Bradford
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John Davis, Team Leader: Infrastructure and Local Plan Implementation, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
11.00
Morning break: Tea & Coffee served in the exhibition area
11.30
Breakout sessions - delegates to choose 1 of 3
The Theatre
A focus on young people
CWIS 3 sets out a new national target for school travel: by 2035, 60% of children aged 5–16 should usually walk or cycle to school. This sits alongside the overall target for 55% of short urban trip stages to be walked or cycled.
Schools are a priority for investment during 2025–30. CWIS3 says the government will prioritise “safe, coherent networks around schools”, with the intention of giving children greater confidence and freedom to travel independently,
Children and disadvantaged families are highlighted. The school-route programme is intended to improve access particularly for children from disadvantaged families, those without access to a car and those in areas with limited public transport
Walking to school: measuring the social value of active travel for children
Lizzie Trotter, Head of Social Impact & Wellbeing, State of Life
From data to delivery: how Essex is rethinking school travel at scale
Pooya Kamvari
Founder & CEO
HomeRun
JU:MP: a place-based approach to improving children's physical activity
Sonia Fayyaz, Community Engagement Manager, Active Bradford
From traffic streets to play streets
Polyvios Polyviou, Head of Highways and Sustainable Transport Policy, Southwark Council
Weston Room
Innovation in bikeshare - urban and rural
Urban bike shared schemes are well developed - so how can we keep driving uptake? And since there is now a noticeable shift in UK policy and practice towards making bike sharing work outside dense city centres, how can the business models for rural and low-density suburban areas work?
Learning from e-bike share in Scotland
Marcus Miller,
Senior Market Development Manager, Voi
Embedding active travel into new developments: using Section 106 to change travel behaviour from day one
Ben Lee, Strategic Partnerships Lead, Beryl
Lessons from Leeds
Chris Kirby, Active Travel Projects Team Leader, Leeds City Council
Successful shared cargo bike schemes in cities and rural areas
Alper Muduroglu, Founder and CEO, PedalUK
Clocktower
Session to be confirmed
Venue Lobby
City centre cycle tour
Visit the award-winning Bradford City Centre Cycling and Walking Improvements Scheme.
Cycles will be provided by Beryl.
Sign-up sheets will be provided on the reception desk – first come, first served.
Limited to 12 participants.
Meet in the venue lobby 10 minutes before departure time.
13.00
Networking Lunch: Lunch served in the exhibition area
14.00
Breakout sessions - delegates to choose 1 of 3
The Theatre
Integrated active travel networks
CWIS3 makes integrated active travel networks one of the central delivery mechanisms for transforming walking, wheeling and cycling into everyday transport. Its emphasis is not simply on building more cycle lanes or pavements, but on creating connected, coherent networks that link homes, schools, high streets, public transport and new development into a single transport system.
Active travel and the Transpennine Route Upgrade: preparing for the passenger surge
Rachel Blake,
Network Rail
Sponsor, Stations, and First and Last Mile Transpennine Route Upgrade
Smarter investment in walking/wheeling: Using data and AI to prioritise walking network interventions
Dom Smith, UK Active Travel Lead, Steer and Ellis Butler-Barker, Co-founder, StreetVision
A new way to plan walking networks: lessons from five English towns and cities
Emma Griffin, Co-founder, Footways CIC
Weston Room
No-one left out or behind
In CWIS3, Active Travel England is tasked with increasing the participation of under-represented groups in investment programmes.
Delivering CWIS3 through disability justice: reframing accessibility for equitable active travel
Nic Cook,
Doctoral Researcher, Newcastle University
Women’s cycling schemes: Active Travel Social Prescribing Pilot Project, Bradford
Sofia Mushtaq,
Active Travel Social Prescribing Officer, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Fozia Naseem, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hop On
Right device – wrongful seizure:
e-mobility and
active travel
Kate Ball,
Campaigns and Policy Lead, Wheels for Wellbeing
CycleIN: creating confident cyclists through online training
Simon Bowkett,
Director of Strategy,
Bikeability Trust
Breaking the ring road barrier: building cycling confidence through community-led maps and video in Huddersfield
Beth Lomas,
Active Travel Manager, EPIKS
Clocktower
Innovation in safe systems and urban infrastructure workshop
Led by Robert Weetman, street design expert with Amy Jones, Policy and Research Associate, Living Streets
What would it take to actually make Vision Zero a reality in urban streets? It seems unlikely that speed limit signs, traffic calming, and appeals for good driving will be enough. What have other countries done? What would work here? Contribute your expertise/ideas. Robert Weetman, street design expert, will lead this exploratory workshop - part of a Living Streets, year-long, safe-systems-focused project, funded by the Scottish Road Safety Framework fund to move thinking forward.
Venue Lobby
City centre walking tour
Visit the award-winning Bradford City Centre Cycling and Walking Improvements Scheme.
Delegates will be guided by the team from Bradford to visit the new pedestrian spaces, green spaces and sustainable urban drainage systems.
Sign-up sheets will be provided on the reception desk – first come, first served.
Limited to 20 participants.
Meet in the venue lobby 10 minutes before departure time.
15.30
Afternoon break: Tea & Coffee served in the exhibition area
16.00
The Theatre
Closing Plenary: focus on active travel networks in
Bradford and West Yorkshire - panel discussion
Chair: Dom Smith, UK Active Travel Lead, Steer
Panellists include:
Liam Bradley, Principal Engineer, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Kate Gifford, Policy Manager, active travel and shared transport, West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Followed by a selection of short city centre walks led by Bradford Council, so that everyone can see the city's award-winning Bradford City Centre Cycling and Walking Improvements Scheme.
16.45
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