Event
Transportation Association of Maryland Annual Conference 2026
Maryland's state conference for community, rural, and human-services transportation providers.
The Transportation Association of Maryland runs the state’s annual conference for community and human-services transportation: the providers who move people who cannot drive or ride fixed-route service. The 2026 conference is September 22-24 at the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club in Stevensville, MD, with sessions, a trade show, and an outdoor bus showcase.
Why it matters for the data layer
Community transportation is where the data layer is thinnest and the need is sharpest. These are small operators, often nonprofit or county-run, and the standards conversation reaches them last, even though demand-response and paratransit are exactly where scheduling and trip data get hard. TAM’s program lists technology next to workforce, funding, and regulations, so it is a decent read on which tools are actually reaching rural and human-services agencies rather than just the big fixed-route systems.
The conference typically draws more than 280 people, weighted toward operators rather than vendors. Anyone building for GTFS-Flex, demand-response, or paratransit data will find the users here. It is a smaller, state-level event, but a grounded one for seeing where mobility data still has to travel.