Last month, over 1,000 city transportation practitioners headed to Minneapolis for the 14th NACTO Designing Cities Conference. Buildings and bridges glowed in NACTO green. Hundreds of people gathered after dark to cheer for the Minneapolis overnight painting crew as they striped road lines. And participants spread out across the city and region to experience and…
Bill Would Provide Continuity, While Leaving Longstanding Transportation Funding Issues Unaddressed Last week, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee advanced its bipartisan BUILD America 250 Act (BA250) with a vote of 62-2. This bill gives us a first look at Congress’s priorities for transportation funding ahead of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) expiration…
During a recent webinar, the Portland Bureau of Transportation shared how they propose to regulate robotaxi services for public benefit Robotaxis aren’t in the future—they’re operating in dozens of cities. And more are coming soon. As cities have learned from previous arrivals of new technologies—from ride-hail to free-floating bikes and scooters—these new services integrate well…
Insights from 20 cities at the March 2026 Better Bike Share Partnership Shared Micromobility Roundtable in Tucson, Arizona Behind every shared micromobility program is a team of people figuring out how to make it work in their city. Last month, 30 of these practitioners representing 20 cities gathered in Tucson, Arizona, for the 2026 Better…
Cities and transit agencies across North America are improving transit service with tools like dedicated bus lanes, transit signal priority, queue jumps, optimized bus stop spacing, and automated camera enforcement. But it’s hard to grasp the full scale of these activities, because no one is tracking transit priority programs across state and regional lines. Until…
Altamonte Springs, Florida; Falls Church, Virginia; Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, join network of more than 100 city transportation agencies The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) is proud to announce that the cities of Altamonte Springs, Florida; Falls Church, Virginia; Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, have joined the more…
New practitioners’ paper aims to help cities as they face escalating challenges from the deployment of robotaxi services Robotaxis are here, and cities are the current and future testing and deployment grounds of this new technology. Company narratives promote robotaxis as a “miraculous remedy” to the traffic-safety crisis on U.S. streets and a transformative mobility…
On February 3, 2026, President Trump signed the $1.2 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 7148), officially ending the partial government shutdown and securing funding for federal transportation programs through September 30, 2026. This bipartisan package is a mixed bag for city transportation officials. While it avoids the worst-case scenarios presented in earlier proposals, it…
It’s been two years since the Federal Highway Administration published the 11th Edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), which was the first update to the manual in almost 15 years. In the years since the MUTCD was adopted, NACTO has worked to understand the changes in the 11th edition, communicated the…