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.

A few interesting things. 🧠

🏘️ Housing: Rents have fallen significantly in Austin amidst a construction boom, while rents continue to rise in Chicago.

🚍 Microtransit: New research on suburban microtransit finds that service design plays an outsized role in driving ridership but posits ridership might not always be the right evaluation metric. Check out key takeaways here.

👷 Workforce Development: The Austin Infrastructure Academy - a new initiative to build the next generation of Austin's infrastructure workforce - will hold its first major event on March 26. Learn more about the academy here.

📊 Data in the Community: Some tips from the American Evaluation Institute on effective study report back strategies.

A quick Journey update. 👷‍♀️

Join Our Book Clubs: Journey founder Lauren Mattern co-hosts two book clubs, both of which will meet again in the next few weeks:

• Chicago City Builders Book Club: This month, the Chicago City Builders Book Club is reading Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko. Sign up to join Lauren, Marla Westervelt Berg of Cityfi, and Mike Ernst of Arup as they lead a discussion on the book and all the latest and greatest in Chicago urbanism. The club meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month - this month on March 26 at 6pm central at Arup’s office in the Loop. Sign up here.

• ACT Book Club: On April 2 at 3pm eastern, Lauren will host Christof Spieler at the ACT Book Club to discuss his book Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit. Lauren and Christof will discuss how TDM and transit can work better together - from how to best leverage transit as a TDM strategy to how transit agencies can adapt TDM principals as they seek to grow ridership. Attending the book club qualifies as 1 TDM-CP credit - sign up here.

Did someone forward you this newsletter? Be sure to subscribe to get The Weekly Journey in your inbox or follow us on LinkedIn.