Shared micromobility in NACTO member agencies: 2025 trends

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…

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…

Across North America, cities are building bike networks with imagination, resilience, adaptability, and drive. They’re planning high-quality bikeways that rely on more than paint to protect their users. They’re creating infrastructure for riders of all ages and abilities. They’re not giving up at intersections. And they’re not undertaking these changes in a vacuum—they’re learning from…