Technical Walkabout [2CPD]: MIPNB-IEMPG Active Mobility Walkabout 2022

Synopsis

What is Active Mobility? How do you commute to work or get around your neighbourhood everyday? Is it affordable, accessible, safe and equitable for you and your loved ones?

Join us for our very first Technical Walkabout around the streets of George Town, Penang, entitled “MIPNB-IEMPG Active Mobility Walkabout 2022”, held in collaboration between Malaysian Institute of Planners Northern Branch (MIPNB) and The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia Penang Branch (IEMPG). TPr. Amelia Neoh (MIPNB) and Ir. Ong Sheng How (IEMPG) will be your hosts and walking guides for the day - both enthusiasts of Active Mobility.

In this Technical Walkabout, our main focus is to observe, discuss, critic and propose what makes a good pedestrian walkway. We encourage everyone (yes, that’s you) to talk about how this relates to your neighbourhood, communities and cities. We encourage all our participants to take photos and videos, as we walk along the walkways of George Town. #ActiveMobilityWalkaboutPenang

Your hosts will share practical knowledge and experiences of walking, cycling and riding public transport from urban planning and transportation engineering perspectives. Intertwined between these discussions are opportunities to review existing pedestrian infrastructures, public spaces, and public transport facilities and its surroundings. We will then explore how walking can contribute to sustainable, resilient, equitable, prosperous, safe and healthy city planning for people – the elderly, OKU, children, women and neurodiverse – leaving no one behind.

Register with us, Today!

About the Hosts/Speakers:

TPr. Amelia Neoh is a Professional Town Planner with a multi-disciplinary consultancy firm based in Penang, Malaysia. She holds corporate memberships with both the Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP) and Malaysian Board of Town Planners (LPBM). She has a wide spectrum of urban development and planning practice experiences, in both the public and private sector.

Amelia believes that equitable mobility drives sustainable, healthy, and liveable cities. She advocates improvement of accessibility, affordability, and equitable distribution of transport movements for everyone, alike. Amelia is passionate about walking, running, and cycling around George Town, Penang.

Ir. Ong Sheng How is a Transport Planner and a Professional Engineer with Practising Certificate registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), and is currently serving as an Ordinary Committee Member in the IEM Penang Branch Executive Committee.

Ong is an avid advocate of sustainable transport, public transport and active mobility, hoping to see active transportation and public transportation as the preferred modes of travel among fellow Malaysians in the near future.

Registration Fees

IEM/MIP Members:          RM30

Non IEM Members:           RM50     

Payment Mode

Internet banking (GIRO) make payable to:

The Institution of Engineers Malaysia

CIMB BANK Account #: 80 0762026 7

Important Notes

• Closing Date: Registration should reach us latest by 19 May 2022 or when registration is full, whichever is earlier.
• Last minute registration will NOT be accepted.
• Registered member participant shall attend the event himself/herself personally. In the event a representative has been sent to attend, the representative must be a member of the same grade, otherwise the difference in registration fee must be paid before admission is allowed.
• Attendance by representative will not be issued with the Certificate of Attendance.
• Fee is non-refundable and non-transferable.
• If fail to attend the event, the fee paid will not be refunded.
• If the participant do not show up for it, or sign in and out, the participant will not be eligible for any CPD points. The requirement for eligibility is that the participant must participate in the entire event, should not be more than 15 minutes late, and should not leave early.

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