Welcome on ECTRI website!

ECTRI, the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes, is an international non-profit organisation that was founded in April 2003.

Its members are 20 major transport research institutes or universities from European countries. Together, they account for more than 3000 European scientific and research staff in the field of transport.

ECTRI's aim is to help build the "European Research Area" (ERA) in surface transport by cooperation in thematic and process oriented working groups, task forces, Framework Programme projects, seminars.

Focus on news

A meeting between ECTRI and TRB representatives was held on 17 April in Brussels at the occasion of the "Transportation Research Program Administration Study Tour". For this meeting, ECTRI was represented by 9 of its members including President, Vice President and Secretary, and the US Delegation was composed of 12 participants.

The Postgraduate Programme on Transport Systems of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) in cooperation with the Center for the Proliferation of Science and Technology Museum of Thessaloniki organize a week of reflection on “The Future Of Transport Systems In Greece And Worldwide: A review of the current status and future prospects in the field of Transport". More...

The first International Transport Forum will take place in Leipzig from 28 to 30 May 2008 on the theme "Transport and Energy: The Challenge of Climate Change". More