Share your research or practice at the event.  Use the button above to submit your proposal. More information about presentation submissions is provided below.

• ** Extended to November 1, 2025**: Presentation proposal submission deadline

• Mid November 2025: Notification of presentation acceptance, program summary available at the conference website, registration opens. 

• December 5, 2025: Deadline to register and confirm attendance for presenting author

• Early December, 2025: Full convening program available at the conference website.

• December 18, 2025: General convening registration deadline (non presenters)

• Monday January 12, 2026: Presentation submission deadline

• Thursday January 15, 2026: Convening presentations

Crossroads will focus on bringing together transportation researchers, practitioners, and others working toward transportation equity and justice. 

• Presentations can be research or practice-oriented.

• Presentations must include a focus on transportation equity, mobility justice, or a closely related topic.

Examples include:

• Navigating political polarization and anti-DEI policies in the transportation context

• The changing landscape of transportation equity and justice work

• Insights from recently terminated transportation studies or projects

• Population- or community-specific transportation needs, impacts, or solutions (for example, Black and Brown, Indigenous, women, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, New Americans, etc.)

• Reparative planning

• Mobility justice

• Transportation and policing and/or immigration enforcement

• Community-centered project evaluations

• … and more

Presentations that focus on transportation equity and justice may also intersect with other areas, for example: 

• Transportation investment and decision-making

• Community empowerment

• U.S. transportation in the international context

• Historical or cross-national perspectives

• Public engagement

• Legal and regulatory perspectives

• Cross-sectoral strategies 

• Infrastructure design and materials

• Transportation and land use policy and planning

• Traffic safety

• Personal safety

• Climate change mitigation and adaptation

• Natural disaster vulnerability, response, and resilience

• Pollution exposure and mitigation

• Agency or community-based organization best practices

• Multimodal planning

• … and more

All submissions should include the following information:

• Author name(s), affiliations, and email addresses

• 1-sentence bio of primary author

• Submission type 

  • Poster

  • Lectern or nontraditional presentation (10 - 15 min)

  • Full session (60 - 90 min) - this can include a panel session, workshop, roundtable, or nontraditional format.

• Submission title

• Summary of information that will be presented (no more than 300 words)

• Preference on whether to include your name and affiliation in the event program, which will be posted online

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the event program committee. Submitters will be notified about whether they are accepted to present or not in mid-November.