# Joint ITE International & Great Lakes District Annual Meeting 2026

> ITE's flagship annual meeting, co-hosted with the Great Lakes District, on the engineering and technology of surface transportation.

July 19-22, 2026 (2026-07-19 to 2026-07-22).
Location: Detroit, MI.
Organizer: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).
Official site: https://www.ite.org/events-meetings/ite-calendar/2026-ite-international-annual-meeting-and-exhibition/
Canonical: https://its-feed.com/events/ite-annual-meeting-2026/

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The Institute of Transportation Engineers holds its flagship annual meeting July 19-22 at
Huntington Place in Detroit, co-hosted in 2026 with its Great Lakes District. The program
runs across eight tracks covering safety, traffic engineering, planning, and the
operations side of surface transportation.

## Why it matters for the data layer

ITE is the professional home of the traffic engineers and planners who actually specify
and operate roadway systems, so its annual meeting sits close to the infrastructure side
of the beat. The tracks that matter most for the data layer are Traffic Engineering
(signal operations, innovative intersections) and Safety (the Safe System approach,
vulnerable road users), where the underlying data feeds and analytics get worked out in
practice rather than in theory.

The venue is worth a note: ITE lands at Huntington Place six weeks after ITS America used
the same hall, so Detroit hosts back-to-back reads on US roadway technology this summer.
For anyone tracking how standards and systems get applied on the ground, ITE is the
practitioner counterpart to the vendor-heavy expo shows.

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Source: ITS Feed, https://its-feed.com/events/ite-annual-meeting-2026/
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