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The 2026 National Mobility Summit will convene leaders from the U.S. Department of Transportation, state and local government agencies, congressional offices, industry partners, and University Transportation Centers (UTCs) within the USDOT strategic area of Improving the Mobility of People and Goods to advance a shared national objective: strengthening the mobility of people and goods as a foundation for economic competitiveness, supply chain resilience, and quality of life across the United States.
Organized by the National Center for Understanding Future Travel Behavior and Demand (TBD Center), in collaboration with the National Center for Sustainable Transportation and eight Regional and Tier-1 UTCs, the Summit is designed not merely as a research showcase, but as a coordinated national platform for advancing mobility system performance.
The program will highlight research innovations, deployment strategies, and technology-driven solutions that enhance performance across highway, transit, freight, rail, maritime, and emerging transportation systems – while explicitly linking innovation to measurable system performance.
The United States faces structural shifts in travel demand, rapid growth in freight activity, evolving logistics models, digital transformation of infrastructure systems, and persistent rural connectivity challenges. In this environment, mobility innovation must be performance-driven, deployment-ready, and nationally coordinated.
The Summit is organized by TBD National Center, in close collaboration with the UTCs advancing mobility nationwide, including: NCST, PacTrans, PSR UTC, CR2C2, CMMM, FERSC, MarTREC, R-SEAT, and SMARTER Center.
For more information about the event and to register, please click here to visit the Summit website.