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2nd Annual AMHC Symposium – “Moving Forward: Decreasing car use among teenagers”

Thursday, June 27th, 2013 | Editor | No Comments

AMHC Teen Panel

AMHC Teen Panel

This international multidisciplinary event showcased current research and practice in teen mobility, active transport, the effects of the built environment and climate change, and youth engagement. Links to recorded video presentations and graphics can be found on the Symposium page and the AMHC YouTube Channel.

AMHC Announces Inaugural Symposium

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 | Editor | No Comments

Save The Date! Feb 15

What:“The Road Not Taken”, Mobility Health: New Directions in Teen Mobility Management.

AMHC announces our Inaugural Symposium in Dunedin, New Zealand. This will be an international live AND online multidisciplinary event showcasing new directions in the areas of teen mobility, the paradox of speed, and the importance of parental and youth engagement in mobility choices.

This event will be held in front of a live studio audience AND streamed live to the Web. Individual presentations will be archived on this web page after the Symposium.

Where: Both online and at the Media Production Studio, 2nd floor of the Owheo Building, 133 Union Street East (corner of Union and Forth Streets), University of Otago, Dunedin Campus.

When:8:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Wednesday 15 February 2012 (or click for your local time).

Download Flyer: AMHC 2012 Symposium Flyer

Register (choose one)

  • In-Person Attendance: If you’d like to be part of the live studio audience, there will be seating and lunch for around 50. Register for In-person Studio SessionWhile there is no charge, availability is on a first come first serve basis.
    Click for On-Site Studio Registration

 

Interact

Online attendees can interactively contribute to the discussion with questions and comments:

  • Twitter – #AMHC2
  • Text (SMS) – (SMS charges may apply):
    • NZ: +(64) 022 082 9569
    • US: 1 (412) 223 6675

Evaluate

  • After the Symposium, please fill out the online evaluation survey and add your public comments to the bottom of this page.


SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

“The Road Not Taken”
Mobility Health: New Directions in Teen Mobility Management
Local Time (World Clock)

8:30 Welcome and Overview – Hank Weiss and Aimee Ward

8:45 Prof Hank Weiss (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) – ‘Deep change and adolescent mobility health’.

9:15 Assoc Prof Paul Tranter (School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, Australia) – Keynote Address: ‘The urban speed paradox: youth perspectives on time pressure, transport and health‘.

10:15 Morning tea

10:35 Dr Bruce Simons-Morton (NIH Prevention Research Branch, Rockville, Md, USA) – ‘The role of parents in adolescent transport decisions‘ (via Skype).

11:10 Arthur Orsini (Urbanthinkers, Vancouver, Canada) – ‘Engaging teens in healthy transport decisions‘.

11:45 Teen panel discussion – Facilitated by Arthur Orsini from Urbanthinkers engaging local non-driving teens and the studio audience.

1:00 Lunch

A Little Humor for a Serious Subject

Sunday, July 31st, 2011 | Editor | No Comments

Came across these sayings on a quotes and teen driving website. It never hurts to take a little time to quietly giggle over a serious subject. Please don’t complain  to AMC, we don’t mean to offend or stereotype and certainly didn’t make these up ourselves! 🙂

  • When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio.  If all the stations are rock and roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot. ~Larry Lujack
  • Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~Erma Bombeck
  • Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ~E.B. White, One Man’s Meat, 1943
  • The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker
  • Mother Nature is providential.  She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. ~William Galvin
  • The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. ~Raymond Duncan
  • The invention of the teenager was a mistake.  Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes – naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ~Judith Martin
  • Adolescence is a period of rapid changes.  Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~Author Unknown
  • You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. ~Author Unknown
  • Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
  • A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries

AMC Learns from Arthur Orsini – Urbanthinkers

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | warai03p | No Comments

Aimee Ward (Otago), Arthur Orsini (Urban Thinkers) and Charlotte Flaherty (DCC)

Arthur Orsini, Active Transportation Planner Stantec Consulting Ltd. in partnership with Urbanthinkers

Earlier this month, the Greater Wellington Regional Council held a series of workshops by noted school travel planning expert and youth engagement authority Arthur Orsini, the developer of Urbanthinkers, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Charlotte Flaherty (Safe and Sustainable Travel Co-ordinator for Dunedin City Council … and an AMC Advisory Board Member) and I were lucky enough to be invited along for the proverbial ride.

On 14 July we attended an all-day seminar by Orsini, “Adult Facilitator Workshop in Youth Engagement”, and were inspired.

Arthur is a pioneer in his field, and has been developing innovative and effective youth and community engagement projects since 1991. His work helps local authorities support students and community-leaders become local champions for travel behaviour change. His secondary school program, Off Ramp, received an OECD award for Sustainable Transport: Education and Youth in 2000. Arthur has worked and presented across Canada, and in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He places particular importance on empowering youth to become peer-mentors. He has never owned a car.

During the facilitator workshop, we performed planning/evaluation exercises – hallmarks of the Orsini Model for Child and Youth Engagement – as if we were the adolescents themselves, and found ourselves enthralled. Ultimately, the AMC aims to affect the driving and licensing habits of secondary-school aged adolescents through the promotion of active transport and transportation demand management (TDM).  Thus, we have a keen interest in Arthur’s ability to capture attention and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders, especially youth themselves.

Both Arthur and the AMC have similar long-term goals: increased child and adolescent health, TDM that supports lower emissions, a reduction in crash-related injury, and an overall travel environment that supports active transport alternatives. After meeting and working a bit with Arthur, these goals seem within closer reach.