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.

2025 was a big year at Journey. We grew our team (three new colleagues!), worked across all three of our home markets, and partnered with communities and clients nationwide on some truly exciting mobility challenges.

We dug into mega-event and stadium planning, supported ambitious mixed-use developments (and unveiled our BUILD tool along the way), launched our engagement practice, and deepened our work in transit governance and funding. We also made time to learn—growing our shared libraries through the Chicago City Builders Book Club and the ACT Book Club—and strengthened partnerships for a new era of collaboration.

Looking ahead to 2026, there’s much more to come. We’re preparing to launch our stadium mobility analytics tool, our planning-as-a-service offering, and Journey Campus, a university-focused growth analysis tool developed through our 2025 project work.

Our engagement practice will deepen with new tools as well, including transit rider market growth analytics and a newly developed Core Rider Growth framework (previews coming soon—right here in this newsletter!).

We’ll also continue advancing national TDM work, connecting mobility strategy with real transit market growth insights. Other fun upcoming projects include university master planning, launching a curb management plan, beginning a number of TOD and parking policy projects, and launching TDM program implementation for work we've been planning for the last several months. If you know us, there is nothing we love more than an implemented project. 

We can’t wait to keep building, learning, and improving the industry alongside you. Nothing happens alone and I've been awed and grateful for the support from our clients and collaborators. One of the best parts of starting something new is the honesty—clients and partners tell us what’s really working, what’s not, and where the stress points are.

We’ve learned so much from working with you.... and we’re only just getting started.

🚌 Better Buses: Always great to see local TV news covering transit wins! This time the spotlight is on CapMetro’s Streets for Transit speed and reliability program. Read more about the program here.

🚸 Vision Zero: The City of Austin is seeing great results from their left turn calming pilot - including an 34% reduction in injury crashes.

🪙 Transit Fares: Some interesting findings on fare design - using Chicago as the research model. Co-author Jingwei Zhang breaks it down here.

🏟️ Stadiums: City Cast Chicago discusses stadium development with Michael Wood of the Chicago Architecture Center.

📦 Delivery: Amazon continues its push to build out its delivery network in rural areas.

💡ACT TDM for Events Monthly Roundtable: Transit for Stadiums and Megaevents

Journey transit practice lead Dan Berez and NYC transit legend Larry Gould will share best practices for transit at stadiums and megaevents at this month’s ACT TDM for Events Monthly Roundtable on Wed, Jan 28 at 1-2 EST. Their conversation is free for ACT members. We’ll post highlights in an upcoming newsletter as well!

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: