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Event Recap: APA-IL 2025 State Conference

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In October 2025, over 800 representatives from municipal governments, metropolitan planning organizations, nonprofits, and planning and engineering firms from across the State of Illinois gathered in Chicago for the American Planning Association Illinois Chapter (APA-IL) 2025 State Conference. The 3-day conference offered a forum for urban planners from around the state to present on their plans and projects, connect with likeminded planners, and learn from each other. 

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Mobility Hubs for Women & Caregivers – Design Framework and Report

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Transportation should work for everyone. Yet, too often, it doesn’t reflect the needs of women and caregivers. If you’ve ever wondered how mobility hubs can serve these groups better, we’ve created resources to help you ask the right questions. Includes Mobility Hubs Design Framework for Women and Caregivers, an easy-to-use, open-source guide that helps you ask the right questions, and a deep dive into the project.

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Shared-Use Mobility Center and Living Cities and Communities Launch first of its kind Design Framework for Women- and Caregiver-centered Mobility Hubs

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CHICAGO (USA) / SUNDRE (SWEDEN) – In an effort to enhance transportation equity, the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) and Living Cities and Communities (LCC) are proud to announce the launch of a new Design Framework for Mobility Hubs that will help community leaders, planners, designers, and teachers ask the right questions to design for the needs of women and caregivers.

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Public-Private-Nonprofit Collaboration Selected to Develop Model Policies to Accelerate Scaling of Ultralight E-mobility

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CHICAGO, Ill. – JANUARY 16, 2025:  The Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC), together with partners at Cityfi and the Urban Freight Lab, has been selected to receive over $750,000 from the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation to lead a public-private-community collaboration to facilitate nationwide regulatory consistency for ultralight e-mobility solutions.

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GLOCON 2026 Press Release

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BANGKOK, THAILAND – Tuktuks, matatus, jeepneys: Informal and shared mobility (ISM) serve as the primary mode of transport for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Despite this, no global forum has ever been dedicated to discussing and leveraging their essential role in global mobility. Leading organizations* have announced a milestone event to change that, bringing together the research, policy, and community voices that have long been missing from the global conversation on how cities move — a historic first for the sector. The 1st Global Convening on Informal & Shared Mobility (GLOCON) will take place October 26–28, 2026, in Bangkok, Thailand.

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