# 2026 Oregon Public Transportation Conference

> Oregon's statewide transit conference in Seaside, run by OTA with ODOT's Public Transportation Division under the theme Mobility Without Barriers.

November 2-5, 2026 (2026-11-02 to 2026-11-05).
Location: Seaside, OR.
Organizer: Oregon Transit Association, with the Oregon Department of Transportation Public Transportation Division.
Official site: https://oregontransit.com/event-6620647
Canonical: https://its-feed.com/events/oregon-public-transportation-conference-2026/

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The Oregon Transit Association holds its statewide conference November 2-5 at the Seaside
Civic & Convention Center, presented with ODOT's Public Transportation Division under the
theme "Mobility Without Barriers." The week runs Monday through Thursday, with the awards
at Wednesday lunch and a PASS training workshop on the closing Thursday. The session agenda
was still listed as coming soon at the time of checking.

## Why it matters for the data layer

Oregon's Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund pushed both money and reporting
obligations down to a long tail of small providers, many of which had no data practice
before the mandate arrived. Seaside is where those providers, their ODOT program contacts
and their vendors actually meet.

If you want to see how a state reporting requirement turns into real collection and
publishing habits at agencies with two staff and a spreadsheet, this is a better vantage
point than a national conference. Legislators and legislative staff attend as well, which
keeps the funding half of the conversation in the room.

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Source: ITS Feed, https://its-feed.com/events/oregon-public-transportation-conference-2026/
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