American Cities Climate Challenge | National Association of City Transportation Officials

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The Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge is an initiative to reduce emissions in 25 of America’s largest cities.

Recognizing that cities account for more than 70% of global carbon emissions–and that mayors have significant authority over high-emitting sectors: transportation and buildings–the Climate Challenge provides support to cities working to realize their aggressive carbon reduction goals.

With transportation as the largest single sector of carbon emissions in the US, implementing projects that reduce reliance on personal vehicles is critical to addressing climate change.

NACTO’s Role

Since 2019, NACTO has supported the 25 ACCC cities by providing broader technical and policy guidance to all 25 cities participating in the challenge, targeted in-person workshop-style trainings in three cities, and in-depth “Accelerator” support in six transportation-focused cities.

In 2021, NACTO will work with a subset of cities, providing focused implementation guidance to address specific challenges to building equitable bike and transit projects and fostering a network of peer experts to address project barriers and bolster internal project champions.

NACTO support will take the form of targeted office hours, design working sessions, convenings, and in-depth workshops to address acute challenges and institute new processes and structures for success intended to benefit the city beyond the Climate Challenge program.

NACTO Climate Challenge Fact Sheet >>

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Trainings and Charrettes

Workshops

Transit Metrics & Messaging, Cincinnati (5/27 & 6/3/2021)
Complete Streets Communications, St. Petersburg (5/19 & 5/26/2021)
Equitable & Inclusive Engagement, St. Louis (5/18 & 5/19/2021)

Design Trainings

Cincinnati (3/3/2020)
St. Petersburg (12/13/2019)
Honolulu (11/15/2019)

Digital Design Charrettes

Minneapolis (8/10/2020)
Charlotte (7/29/2020)
Washington, DC (3/11/2020)
Philadelphia (2/28/2020)
San José (12/11/2019)
Saint Paul (11/1/2019)
Honolulu (8/14/2019)
San Diego (7/8/2019)

Digital Policy Charrettes

Philadelphia (8/24/2020)

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Updates

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NACTO's City Accelerator Program

The City Accelerator program helps cities rapidly implement high-quality transit or bike corridors, from design to build out. The program was started in 2014 as way to provide in-depth, on-the-ground support to member cities implementing new street design projects that may depart from existing practice.

Whether a red bus lane or protected bike lane, undertaking new projects requires changing business as usual. Under Accelerators, NACTO helps cities develop the new partnerships and pathways needed to implement these projects, bringing together the rich peer network to help cities move projects from idea to implementation through lasting programmatic change.