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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

YRS09: Final papers, oral presentations and pictures are now online.
The Young Researchers Seminar 2009 took place in Turin, Italy from 3-5 June. Johan Olstam from VTI, Sweden; Agathe Baker-Grondahl from TOI, Norway and Aurélien Duret from INRETS, France, were the 3 winners of the Seminar. More information is available on the seminar webpage.

ECTRI is partner of the YEAR2010 project, funded by the 7th Framework Programme. The project started on 01 January 2009. More about at http://year2010.fehrl.org.

The Activities/Conferences section has been updated. You will find there interesting events about transport research and research in general.

ECTRI-TRB cooperation - latest publications: In the frame of ECTRI Memorandum of Understanding with the US Transportation Research Board, the ECTRI Working Group 10 released its final report "EU/US Transport Research Collaboration: Challenges and opportunities". The French version of the report is also available in the strategic documents section.

ECTRI signed the The Brno Declaration, a common position on Mobility research, with EURNEX, FEHRL, FERSI, HUMANIST in May 2009, in Brno, Czech Republic.

In December 2008, ECTRI signed the Lyon Declaration, together with FEHRL, FERSI, EURNEX, HUMANIST, ISN and NEARCTIS. More...

You can also find these declarations in the strategic documents section.

ECTRI-FERSI collaboration:
The Forum of European Road Safety Institute (FERSI) released a common position paper with ECTRI on "The sustainable safety approach to Road Transport and Mobility". You can find it in the strategic document section.