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Statewide AT Summit
The 2026 Statewide Active Transportation Summit is coming up June 4 in Harrisburg.
People living and working in Pennsylvania will be gathering this summer to focus on best practices, design, outreach, and education related to active mobility. If you are looking to encourage and enable walking, biking, using wheelchairs, and accessing transit in your community, this will be a prime opportunity to make connections, expand your understanding, and learn from other communities and advocates.
Register now and make your travel arrangements so you’re able to make the most of the event. Come in the afternoon before for a walking tour of active transportation infrastructure and a reception with the new Coalition for Active Mobility in Pennsylvania. Enjoy a full day of educational trainings and tours. Join your peers, learn from leaders, and take key trainings.
There is even travel expense funding assistance available from the Department of Health for communities in priority counties (Berks, Clearfield, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Greene, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer, Northumberland, Philadelphia) and Environmental Justice areas.
Learn More About the 2026 Summit
Learn More About WalkWorks
WalkWorks is a collaboration between the PA Department of Health and the Pennsylvania Downtown Center working to increase physical activity and reduce adverse health outcomes through environmental design. To that end, WalkWorks promotes the creation, enhancement, and use of activity-friendly routes connecting everyday destinations throughout the Commonwealth. Being able to get to daily destinations safely under your own power is one of the best ways to incorporate healthy levels of physical activity into our lives. These healthy forms of personal mobility are collectively called Active Transportation. Active Transportation includes walking, biking, using a wheelchair, connecting to transit, and otherwise using transportation means that are primarily human-powered and human-scaled.
PA communities have extensive and connected infrastructure networks for motor vehicles, but incomplete and unsafe Active Transportation networks. To address these shortcomings and barriers to healthy physical activity in daily life, WalkWorks provides Technical Assistance (TA) and funding to communities for the development of Active Transportation Plans. WalkWorks encourages communities to expand their walking and biking programming, education, and events as well as to adopt policies, like Complete Streets and Vision Zero Policies, that reinforce the value and validity of using active modes of transportation.
WalkWorks would like to work with you to make sure your community has safe, accessible, and inviting Active Transportation options for everyone!
Learn more about Active Transportation
- Shortest intro: PennDOT LTAP 80 second video on Active Transportation
- Intermediate length: slides and text of an active transportation presentation from 2021 PennDOT Program
- Intermediate length in Spanish: slides and text
- Longer intro: PennDOT LTAP/Connects Intro to Active Transportation webinar. You do have to register in order to view the recording.
Related Programs & Helpful Resources
- Statewide Active Transportation Summit 2026
- WalkWorks Priority Community Summary
- AT Summit Priority Community Travel Expense Scholarship Program
- Capacity-Building Program Guidelines to be issued shortly!
- Week Without Driving 2026 — Coming October 1 to 8
- Regional/Rural Active Transportation Workshops
- Early Childhood Cycling Education
- PDC Micro(mobility)-Fleet Information
- Safe Routes to School in PA: Fall Informational Series
- Walkable Communities Rack Card
- Walkable Communities Rack Card – SPANISH
- What’s in a Word? Expanding Your Active Transportation Lexicon!
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