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| 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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| 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.

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| 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!

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| May 27, 2025

Call for Posters #MpactPDX

Share your fresh takes at a Poster Session at the 2025 Mpact Transit + Community Conference in Portland 

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| 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.

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Rendering of Ascent Apartments in Kansas City. Courtesy NorthPoint Development
| 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.

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Tilikum Crossing lit at night, Portland
| 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.

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| 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.

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A group of people on stage for the Mpact Innovators PK Slam at the 2024 Mpact Transit + Community conference in Philadelphia
| 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.

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people boarding bus with buildings in the background
| 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.

Read More
| March 12, 2025

Human-Centered Design and Transit

Six questions about how people experience transit spaces, with concepts from human-centered design

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A streetcar and a group of people at South Waterfront in Portland.
| 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.

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| 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.

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A collage including the Ben Franklin Bridge, train, bus and bicyclists in Philadelphia - for the 2024 Mpact Transit + Community Conference
| 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.

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A collage including the Ben Franklin Bridge, train, bus and bicyclists in Philadelphia - for the 2024 Mpact Transit + Community Conference
| September 26, 2024

Are You Going to #MpactPhilly?

We’ve got social graphics for you!

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The Bok building in Philadelphia with a view of center city in the distance. Credit Astrobus Media_formerly Arsenal Mediaworks
| 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.

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