Transportation conferences are more than just an easy way to expand your pen collection. They’re also a great way to meet, learn from, and potentially even collaborate with the people shaping our collective transportation future. These are the transportation gatherings on our horizon for 2025. Did we miss something? Drop us a line: funevents@jawntpass.com.

Transportation Research Board: January 5-8, 2025 in Washington, DC

As certain as the sun rising in the east and automobiles being a major contributor to greenhouse gases, the National Academies once again hosted TRB, the “Super Bowl of Transportation”, in the first week of January in Washington, DC. Our Director of Product Partnerships presented her paper, Landscape Review: Payment Technologies and Employee Commuter Benefits. A summary can be found here.

Transportation superfans usually attend Transportation Camp DC on the Saturday before TRB, hosted by Transportation For America. Unfortunately this year’s event was cancelled due to lack of resources, so please instead enjoy our recap for both 2024 events. And look forward to other regional events being posted throughout the year. We expect to see Transportation Camp New England return in fall 2025 at a minimum.

APTA Marketing, Communications and Customer Experience Workshop: February 23-26, 2025 in Long Beach, CA

MarComCX is one of several events from the American Public Transportation Association worth looking into. It focuses on the passenger information side of transit, which includes marketing, customer experience, and employer pass programs. 

Transport Ticketing Global: March 4-5 in London, UK

This enormous expo is entirely focused on how to pay for transit. European transit riders have been enjoying more advanced (faster, cheaper, more reliable) payment methods for years, so it’s fitting that we’d have to go across the pond to see what’s coming here next.

National Bike Summit: March 11-13, 2025 in Washington DC

The League for American Bicyclists hosts the National Bike Summit every spring in Washington, DC. The event highlights opportunities for lobbying members of the House, as well as sessions and speakers to support the cause.

Bicycle Leadership Conference: March 18-20 in Tucson, Arizona

PeopleForBikes hosts this annual summit. Whether you’re working locally to improve bike facilities in your community, or hoping to plug into national advocacy, or just wanting to learn what’s changed and changing, this event will help you push forward.

APTA Mobility Conference: April 6-9, 2025 in Austin, TX

APTA’s Mobility Conference is focused on operations: how to get buses and trains to run smoothly, safely, and on time. Our favorite part is the behind-the-scenes technical tours.

NACTO Designing Cities: May 28-31, 2025 in Washington, DC

The National Association of City Transportation Officials brings together hundreds of planners and planning-minded professionals, focusing on making cities more equitable and sustainable. Their Designing Cities event always highlights tours, led by passionate and expert guides, who offer inspiring examples and challenges.

Transport Ticketing North America: June 24-25 in Chicago, IL

This stateside version of Transport Ticketing Global is like peering into a crystal ball and seeing how we’ll all be paying for transit in the next 5-10 years. Read our recap of the 2024 event for more.

ACT International Conference: August 3-6, 2025 in New Orleans, LA

The Association for Commuter Transportation is the preeminent organization for anyone who wants to help employees travel by any mode other than alone in a car. We’ve written several times about how much we value our membership, and particularly enjoy meeting and learning from so many experts at this banner event. Read about our experience at the 2024 event in Denver.

APTA TRANSform Conference and Expo: September 14-17, 2025 in Boston, MA

TRANSform is the technology and product showcase for the largest public transportation organization in the United States. It’s a great place to see the new technology in place and coming soon to a bus near you.

Climate Week NYC: September 21-28, 2025 in New York, NY

Climate Week NYC is the largest event of its kind and brings together leaders in technology, business, and policy to discuss the future of climate. Topics range from decarbonization to ESG initiatives, and thankfully the events on the website include a tag for “transport.” While some events are invite-only and/or paid, many are free, and it’s an excellent week to learn about broader climate-focused work and network with people who’ve traveled from near and far.  

International Downtown Association Annual Conference: September 24-27, 2025 in Washington, DC

Downtowns were the center of our transportation networks before the pandemic, and continue to be the connective hubs of our transportation networks. The IDA is focused on place-making, and transportation plays an important role in bringing people together.

California Association for Coordinated Transportation Fall Conference: October 20-24, 2025 in Stateline, NV

CALACT as an organization is a fierce advocate for the hundreds of transit agencies of all sizes across California, and its fall conference is an invaluable opportunity for those managers and planners to trade updates and learn from each other. 

Mpact Transit + Community: October 26-29, 2025 in Portland, Oregon

Mpact (formerly Rail-Volution), is a very implementation-focused event. Its panels tend to focus on the planners, designers, and policymakers who shape our streets. Jawnt presented on a panel at the 2024 Mpact with our friends and colleagues from SEPTA, the City of Philadelphia, BART, and others, called Creative Fare Policies, and the summary is available here.

ACT TDM Forum: October 28-29, 2025 in Portland, OR

Only a bit smaller and lower key than their international conference, the Association for Commuter Transportation’s fall event is focused on research and best practices. Read our recap of the 2024 event in Charlotte, including the bike ride we organized and the micromobility panel one of our team members moderated.

Greenbuild International Conference + Expo: November 4-7, 2025 in Los Angeles

Transportation is only ever half the story, or a means to an end. It’s easier to get people to try transit if they’re moving between dense and walkable areas, or to bike if there are facilities at their destination. This is why we’re including the Greenbuild Expo, because we’re excited to see commercial and residential developers include transportation among their “ground-breaking” topics.

Expected to be scheduled in 2025

We’ll update this page as more information is made available about the following events.

• Association for Commuter Transportation: Several regional chapters are organizing local events for spring 2025, and we’re involved in helping coordinate two of them. More information to come!
• Data + Donuts LA: This meetup happens several times a year, in-person in Los Angeles, and each time spotlights a different project that’s using public data to improve understanding and outcomes. Recent events focused on using GTFS-RT to make prevailing transit speeds, starting a culture of data science within the public sector, and using data to increase equitable access to green spaces. And every event has donuts! 
• Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals: Last held in Detroit in August 2024. These are practitioner-focused gatherings to help planners and advocates improve experiences for walking and biking in their cities. 
• International Mobility Data Summit: Last held in Montreal in October 2024. MobilityData, the nonprofit organizer, facilitates expansions and technical support for several specifications for forms of mobility data, including GTFS for transit and GBFS for bikes. This event is where the producers and consumers of this data come together to set priorities for increasing access, adoption, and quality in the next year.
• National Association of Bikeshare & Scootershare Association: The next annual conference will be in Montreal, but no data has been posted yet. NABSA is focused entirely on making shared micromobility more accessible, equitable, and resilient. Read our recap from the 2024 event in Philadelphia.
• 82Alliance: In Philadelphia each fall, this organization brings together local and national thought leaders.
• CoMotion LA: Last held in November 2024. Typically coordinated with the Open Mobility Foundation’s annual summit, CoMotion explores trends and recent lessons from the more innovative side of transportation technology. There is also an annual event in the spring in Miami, with a similar energy of market trends.
• Transportation Camp is a distributed movement, based on Foo Camp. Expect at least the Philadelphia, New England, and New York groups to post more information about their gatherings soon. Here is our recap from the 2024 event in Los Angeles.

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