Past event
TransitData 2026
The 10th international symposium on using automated transit data for planning, operations, and management, in Toronto.
TransitData 2026 was the 10th International Symposium on the Use of Public Transit Automated Data for Planning, Operations, and Management, held June 23-25 at Victoria College, University of Toronto. It is run by the university’s Transit Analytics Lab and was hosted in hybrid format.
Why it matters for the data layer
This symposium sits directly on the ITS Feed beat: the use of automated transit data, from fare collection to vehicle location to passenger counts, for planning and operations. That is exactly the analytics layer between raw feeds and agency decisions. It is a small, focused research community rather than a trade event, co-chaired by Amer Shalaby and Brendon Hemily.
Held in Toronto, it is a non-US event, and this edition has concluded. But the symposium series is one of the better records of methods work on transit data, and the 2026 program is worth mining for techniques that will show up in agency planning practice.