Welcome to The Weekly Journey - your two-minute journey through the world of mobility and beyond. Use it to stay informed, find a new go-to source, or just have a peek inside how we think. Brought to you by the team at Journey.

Lauren put together a quick recap of everything the Association for Commuter Transportation Book Club and the Chicago City Builders Book Club read and discussed throughout 2025. Make sure to check out both recaps linked below if you are looking for a great book (or gift idea) for this holiday season.

👋 Goodbye PIT People Mover: Pittsburgh International Airport permanently shut down its iconic people mover as it opened a new landside concourse. Riding this train was Journey transit practice lead Dan Berez’s first transit experience! London Stansted also announced the upcoming closure of its people mover - London Reconnections did a deep dive.

🚕 A New Kind of Traffic: AV operations were temporarily halted in San Francisco after a widespread power outage. Jeff Tumlin puts the day in perspective.

🏟️ Stadiums: The Chicago Architecture Center’s Stadium Working Group published a report on best practices for urban stadium development.

📊 EMTA just published their annual package of public transportation data for cities throughout Europe. Lots of interesting data in both the report and dashboard.

Journey is hiring a mid-career parking and TDM strategist to join our growing West Coast practice.

This position will support our portfolio of parking code, shared-parking analysis, major-event mobility planning, and TDM program design projects on the West Coast. We’re looking for a candidate with approximately ten years of parking and TDM planning experience that is based in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, or Seattle.

Check out the LinkedIn posting to learn more about the position and find out how to apply. We’d also appreciate if you share the posting with folks in your network. Thanks!

Lauren hosts the Association for Commuter Transportation Book Club. On February 4th at 2 PM eastern, the book club will host Ruth Miller of Jawnt to discuss The Smart Enough City by Ben Green. Ruth will explore how TDM professionals can thoughtfully navigate both the promises and the limitations of smart city technologies. ACT members, feel free to join whether or not you get a chance to read the book! Not an ACT member but curious? Reach out to Journey as we often can offer a couple of comp entries to our partners.

Lauren co-hosts the Chicago City Builders Book Club with our friends at Arup. The book club is diving into the Chicago classic, Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon, across their next three meetings. Join them for their upcoming discussions on: