Mission

To ensure a level playing field and maximum participation in the transportation industry for minority individuals, businesses, and communities of color through advocacy, information sharing, training educational and professional development.

Membership

COMTO has 35 chapters throughout the United States. Members include individual, transportation agencies, academic institutions, industry non-profits and Small and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises. From highways and roads to mass transit systems; from subways to rail systems; and from port authorities to airports, COMTO members represent every facet of the transportation industry. Our members are the presidents and chief executive officers who determine the direction of major transportation systems and the mechanics and operators who ensure the safe passage of millions of transportation riders everyday. For more information on membership, please contact COMTO Headquarters at 202.530.0551 or by e-mail at membership@comto.org.

National Meeting and Training Conference

This annual meeting brings together a network of approximately 1000 persons from all across the country. It provides a forum to participate in disseminating valuable industry information as well as the opportunity to become more informed on issues critical to our industry. This conference is the premier opportunity for professional development for those participating in our comprehensive educational forums. This year’s meeting, “The Future of Intermodal Expansion: A Dawn of a New Era”, will take place June 22-27 at the InterContinental Hotel in Miami, Fl.

History

Founded in 1971 on the campus of Howard University by Rev. Jerry Moore and Harold B. Williams, the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials was created to provide a forum for senior level minority professionals in the transportation industry. It was an occasion to act, born of the need to address the inequities of a rapidly expanding industry within which its minority workers, upon whose shoulders the industry was built, were not allowed the same access to employment, promotion and contract opportunities. It was recognized by its founders from the beginning that COMTO was positioning itself for a long and arduous but rewarding history.

Since its inception, COMTO has continued to evolve to become the premier organization for the training, education and professional development of minority transportation professionals. From the advancement of Historically Underutilized Businesses, legislative initiatives, scholarship and program opportunities, our scope is varied and far reaching. We have chronicled numerous successes and victories. But the true measure for how far we have come is revealed by the talent, tenacity and accomplishments of our members who have joined forces to correct the inequities of the past and chart the direction of the future.