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Blog | March 31, 2025
Speak up for transit-oriented communities
Now is an excellent time to speak up for transit and transit-oriented communities. As practitioners, leaders and advocates in this space, we have an opportunity to highlight the benefits and educate leaders at all levels.
Blog Archives
Blog | July 2, 2025
Announcing the Mark J. Bassett Design Scholarship
Mpact is excited to announce the inaugural Mark J. Bassett Design Scholarship, created to support attendance at the Mpact Transit + Community Conference by students, educators and nonprofit or government practitioners whose work concentrates on architecture, community development, public transportation, transit-oriented development or a related discipline.
Blog | June 11, 2025
The Artwork for #MpactPDX
Every year, we commission original artwork for the Mpact Transit + Community conference. The goal is to create a sense of mobility and community, affirming what locals know and intriguing potential attendees. Let’s take a look at the artwork for #MpactPDX!
Blog | May 27, 2025
Call for Posters #MpactPDX
Share your fresh takes at a Poster Session at the 2025 Mpact Transit + Community Conference in PortlandÂ
Blog | May 22, 2025
Mpact Innovators: Coffee Chats on Hot Topics
This year, the Mpact Innovators wanted to create some opportunities for people to connect informally year-round. Enter Coffee Chats—a way to meet up in small groups and share experiences from different vantage points around the country.
Blog | May 14, 2025
Mpact TOC Profile: Ascent Apartments in Kansas City
Find out about Ascent Apartments, a transit-oriented development project in Kansas City, Missouri.
Blog | April 29, 2025
TriMet – A Pioneering Spirit Drives Us
Throughout its 55+ year history, TriMet, Oregon’s largest transportation provider, has always led with innovation.
Blog | April 22, 2025
Mpact Transit + Community Conference Returning to Portland to Celebrate 30 Years
The 2025 Mpact Transit + Community Conference, founded in Portland in 1995 as Rail~Volution, is returning
to Portland, October 26-29, to celebrate 30 years. Stakeholders involved with the conference then and now are meeting in Portland this week to plan the 2025 conference and unveil the original artwork commissioned for the conference.
Blog | April 15, 2025
The Mpact Innovators: A Journey into the Movement
Trinity Ek, Mpact’s Director of Emerging Professional Programs, talks about the journey to working with the Mpact Innovators and how this group has evolved.
Blog | March 31, 2025
Speak up for transit-oriented communities
Now is an excellent time to speak up for transit and transit-oriented communities. As practitioners, leaders and advocates in this space, we have an opportunity to highlight the benefits and educate leaders at all levels.
Blog | March 12, 2025
Human-Centered Design and Transit
Six questions about how people experience transit spaces, with concepts from human-centered design
Blog | February 28, 2025
Be a Speaker in Portland for Mpact Transit + Community 2025
The Call for Speakers is open – until March 21 – for the 2025 Mpact Transit + Community conference (formerly Rail~Volution), coming to Portland, Ore., October 26-29.
Blog | December 9, 2024
Building Local Momentum with Mpact:LAB
Mpact:LAB offers place-based stakeholder development and capacity building. Read this piece, originally published in APTA’s Passenger Transport, to understand how and where the LAB works.
Blog | December 3, 2024
Recapping #MpactPhilly
The 2024 Mpact Transit + Community conference was a huge success, drawing nearly 1100 attendees from the US, Canada, Mexico and beyond for four days of learning, exploring and connection.
Blog | September 12, 2024
BOK – Adaptive Reuse Meets the Mpact PK Slam
A former technical high school in South Philadelphia is now a space for makers, businesses, nonprofits and artists – and the venue for the 2024 Mpact PK Slam, presented by the Mpact Innovators.
