Working on improving walking, biking, and accessibility in your community now? Thinking about doing so in the future? You should plan to attend the 2026 Statewide Active Transportation Summit to meet people doing this work in various parts of PA, see examples of work underway, and discover key elements to help you bring active transportation improvements home for your area.
The event will take place in Harrisburg at the Rural Electrical Association building on Locust Street from 8:30am to 4pm on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
This event is suitable for a wide variety of participants, whether people who have formal roles with municipalities or those who are engaged activists and advocates as well as anyone just interested in getting involved in promoting active transportation in their communities. There will be people involved in active transportation from the state agency side, metropolitan and regional planning organizations, county and city planners, and design consultants, like engineers, planners, and landscape architects.
For those coming in the evening before, there will be an option to do an evening walk in town. And there will also be tours integrated into the event day-of.
The Department of Health has a particular interest in providing technical assistance and funding for planning in priority counties, so people attending from those counties may be able to access funding to help cover travel expenses. The current priority counties are Clearfield, Erie, Fayette, Green, Lawrence, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer, Northumberland, and Philadelphia. Contact pawalkworks@padowntown.org for more information about travel support.
Stay tuned for further details about the keynote and registration. In the near term, session proposals may be submitted through 5pm on February 27.
