TransitData 2026 - Program

Monday 22 June, 2026

14:00-17:00 Registration open

Tuesday 23 June, 2026

08:00-17:00 Session 2: Registration Desk Opens

09:00-09:30 Session 3: Plenary Opening Session: Introduction to Symposium and to Transit Analytics Lab

09:30-10:30 Session 4: Plenary Session: Transit Data and Applied Analytics; Informing the Real World

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:15 Session 5A: Analyzing/Understanding Travel Behaviour

11:00-12:15 Session 5B: Transit Operations Planning and Management

11:00-12:15 Session 5C: E-Bus Operations and Charging Analytics

12:15-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-13:45 Session 6: Video showing

13:45-14:45 Session 7A: Segmentation of Transit Markets

13:45-14:45 Session 7B: Transit Operations Planning and Management – Part 2

13:45-14:45 Session 7C: Enhancing Scheduling

14:45-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:15 Session 8A: Access to Destinations and Equity Considerations

15:15-16:15 Session 8B: Disruptions: Impacts and Management

15:15-16:15 Session 8C: On-Demand Transit

16:15-16:20 Session 9: Transition to Plenary

16:20-17:20 Session 10: Plenary Session: Transit Agencies Using Data

17:20-17:30 Session 11: Announcements

Wednesday 24 June, 2026

08:00-17:00 Session 12: Registration Desk Opens

09:00-10:20 Session 13A: Analyzing Customer Satisfaction

09:00-10:20 Session 13B: Predicting and Managing Crowding

09:00-10:20 Session 13C: Rail Planning- Understanding Passenger Behaviour

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:50 Session 14: Plenary Session: Transit Agency-Academic Collaboration

11:50-13:05 Lunch Break

13:05-13:20 Session 15: Video showing

13:20-14:20 Session 16A: Network Service Redesign and Analysis Tools

13:20-14:20 Session 16B: Assessing/Developing Operational Control Strategies

13:20-14:20 Session 16C: Rail Network Simulation and Operations

14:20-14:50 Coffee Break

14:50-15:50 Session 17: Plenary Session: AI in Transit

15:50-16:00 Session 18: Transition to Plenary

16:00-17:00 Session 19: Plenary Session: Transit Data – Interactive Participant Perspectives

17:00-17:10 Session 20: Announcements

19:00-21:00 Dinner

Thursday 25 June, 2026

07:45-09:00 Session 21: Meeting of TransitData Scientific Committee (By invitation only)

09:00-10:10 Session 22A: Multimodal integration and New Tools for Assessing the Influence of Land-Use on Transit

09:00-10:10 Session 22B: Data Management Challenges

09:00-10:10 Session 22C: Exploring Fare Policy Impacts and Elasticities

10:10-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:40 Session 23: Plenary: Transit Interoperability Data Specifications (TIDES) - Status and Implementation

11:40-12:00 Session 24: Group Photo

12:00-13:15 Lunch Break

13:15-13:30 Session 25: Video showing

13:30-14:30 Session 26A: Analyzing Origin-Destination Patterns (ODX)

13:30-14:30 Session 26B: Understanding/Enhancing Bus Performance

13:30-14:30 Session 26C: Demand Forecasting

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:15 Session 27: Plenary Session: Transit Data Challenge

16:15-17:00 Session 28: Plenary Session: Beyond Transit Data – Looking to the Future

17:00-17:30 Session 29: Plenary Session: Final Words