# CTAA EXPO 2026

> The Community Transportation Association of America's annual gathering for rural, community, and demand-responsive transit.

May 10-13, 2026 (2026-05-10 to 2026-05-13).
Location: Omaha, NE.
Organizer: Community Transportation Association of America.
Official site: https://ctaa.org/ctaa-events/
Canonical: https://its-feed.com/events/ctaa-expo-2026/

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CTAA EXPO is the annual conference of the Community Transportation Association of America.
The 2026 edition ran May 10-13 at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, drawing the rural,
tribal, and community-transit operators, mobility managers, and vendors who serve smaller
systems.

## Why it matters for the data layer

Community and rural transit is where demand-responsive service lives, and that is the
corner of the data layer where GTFS-Flex, microtransit booking systems, and
mobility-management platforms carry the most weight. These systems are smaller and later to
modernize than the big urban agencies, so the data questions stay practical: getting a
dial-a-ride onto a trip planner at all, or standing up a first real-time feed.

The event has concluded, but its session topics are a useful read on where small-agency
data modernization stands, and on how demand-responsive service is starting to show up in
the same feeds riders already use for fixed-route transit.

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Source: ITS Feed, https://its-feed.com/events/ctaa-expo-2026/
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