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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.
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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.