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The Hague will host the Walk21 International Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities XI and the 23rd International Cooperation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic safety (ICTCT) in November 2010.  The conference will take place at The Kurhaus Hotel in Scheveningen from Wednesday November 17 to Friday November 19, 2010.  It will be hosted by the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management and the City of The Hague.

Download the conference program.

The conference will showcase best practices for promoting and supporting walking and sojourning, including the recent 4 year COST 358 Pedestrians’ Quality Needs project and the International Transport Forum project Pedestrian Safety, Urban Space and Health. It also aims to strengthen relationships across sectors (planning, transportation, health, design, economics, safety) to improve walking conditions and create liveable communities and to provide practitioners with research, tools, and strategies they need to improve walking conditions. The five major themes of the conference are:

The themes for the conference are:

Theme 1: Sustaining safe walking: Creating safe, accessible and sustainable conditions for walking and sojourning in public space
Theme 2: Evaluating the impact of investment in walking: Defining success, benchmarking and measuring the value of money spent on walking projects
Theme 3: Walking supporting prosperity: The relationship between where people choose to walk and the vitality of the economy
Theme 4: Sharing space with cyclists: Managing a harmonious coexistence between cyclists and walkers and
Theme 5: Safe, healthy, attractive and accessible environments are a community right: Creating a culture where people choose to walk and communities will thrive.

Subscription rates:

Regular participant (€ 499,-, early bird rate before September 15th is € 399,-)
ICTCT member (€ 299,-)
Employee of an NGO (€ 299,-)
Student (€ 75,-)

Register now by using the online subscription form!