Professional Practice
Call for Speakers: Mpact Transit + Community 2023 (formerly Rail~Volution)
Date: 3/13/2023 - 3/31/2023
Type: Call for Papers / Submissions
Description:
Does your work involve designing communities for transit, connected mobility options, trails or safe walking?
Do you work on transit-oriented development, housing, business or economic development?
Do you see implications for health, safety, equity, sustainability, access to opportunity and overall quality of life?
Submit a proposal for Mpact Transit + Community 2023! Tell us how your experience shapes - or reshapes - the vision for transit-oriented communities. The Call for Speakers is open now. The deadline to submit a proposal is March 31.
We're looking for thinkers & doers able to share real-world experience about transit, connected mobility options, supportive land use & development. The conference focuses on the whole community built around transit, from the modes themselves to housing, business and economic development, including the implications for health, safety, equity, sustainability, access to opportunity and overall quality of life.
How are you doing things differently to respond to changing trends and achieve better outcomes for your community?
What are specific approaches to:
- reducing disparities?
- innovative financing?
- more sustainable energy choices?
- engaging community members in decision-making?
- mitigating heat, fires and flood or taking a systemic approach to climate change?