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Transport Chicago

Friday, October 16, 2020

Virtual Conference
This year's virtual conference on October 16 will feature CEO Sam Schwartz as our keynote speaker and several moderated panels and workshops in the same format you've come to expect from Transport Chicago.

Session highlights include:
  • Interactive plenary session to help shape the Cook County Transit Plan
  • Advocating for a Racially Equitable COVID-19 Response & Recovery
  • Moving Toward Mobility Justice: Mixed-methods Research on Mobility

Please register if you would like to take part in this year's virtual conference. And be sure to share this event with your networks!
Click here to view a summary of this year's conference schedule, or here for the full conference brochure. Links to the webinars are included on the schedule summary page and in the brochure.
More photos are available in our conference gallery

​Transport Chicago is an annual conference dedicated to the mission of improving transportation in the Chicago region and beyond.  Originally conceived as a student-led forum, today Transport brings together seasoned experts and professionals of all ages for a one-day fun, engaging and semi-formal conference setting.

Every year, our goal is to ignite the conversation.  Transport Chicago provides a platform to exchange ideas and knowledge and to build the relationships that are necessary to solve the complex transportation problems of today – and tomorrow. ​

STANDING FOR RACIAL & MOBILITY JUSTICE

Over the last few months, the Transport Chicago Steering Committee has been reflecting on the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and countless others before them.  Anti-black brutality and violence in our public and private spaces cannot be tolerated. We have been reflecting on how we as citizens, as active members of our community—and, particularly, as transportation professionals— play a part in perpetuating systemic and structural racism. Going forward, we can and must fight together for a more equitable and just city and region. Without racial justice, our streets and transportation systems will never truly be open and safe for all; in the words of Urban Planner Amina Yasin, writing in the wake of the weeks-long protests:
Vision Zero must mean more than zero lives lost to traffic fatalities. It must also mean zero Black and Indigenous lives lost on our streets to police violence. As protesters risk COVID-19 to call for justice and the end of police impunity; elected officials, planners and urbanists must heed the call to defund policing, including the reallocation of Vision Zero funds from policing towards programming across other city departments. ​
As we continue to listen, process, and understand all of the harm and trauma we and our system have caused Black people and other marginalized communities, we will examine how our conference platform can be used to lift the voices of communities of color and help center more of our work around equity and mobility justice. As a first step in this process, we have compiled a short—and necessarily incomplete—reading and resource list:

​CONNECT + LEARN + GROW​

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They are an integral part of making our conference a success. Their support allows us to draw hundreds of decision-makers, planners, engineering professionals, elected officials and many others from the public and private transportation sector to the conference. If you'd like to support the mission of Transport Chicago, consider becoming a sponsor. 

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