The 2020 ETC conference was organized as an online conference from 9 – 11 of September. In the frame of the ECTRI-AET MoU, ECTRI officially supports ETC – the European Transport Conference. The conference kept its unique identity of a multi-disciplinary, multi-seminar format but in an online environment. There was a choice of up to [...]
The 2020 Summit under the theme Transport Invocation for Sustainable Development, aimed at exploring the benefits to transport and mobility brought by the recent advances in new technologies and business models to enhance the accessibility, safety, and efficiency of transport infrastructure and services. The discussions focused on how innovation in transport could contribute to achieving the [...]
ITF 2020 Pre-Summit Research Day (event postponed)
ECTRI together the International Transport Forum (ITF), the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), co-organised the ITF 2020 Pre-Summit Research Day. The event was planned to take place on May 26, 2020 in Leipzig, on the topic of “Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development”. Following the announcement of [...]
The TRA2020 conference, scheduled for April 2020, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All ECTRI activities planned (Research Village Associations booth, together with FEHRL and FERSI and the BE OPEN 2nd project event) to take place at the Conference were cancelled. Numerous national and international partners have invested an enormous effort in the [...]
TRA 2022 launch “Transforming Mobility – Achieving sustainability for a more inclusive world”
“Transforming Mobility – Achieving sustainability for a more inclusive world” event took place at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, on the February 14, 2020. This was the launch event of the TRA 2022 Lisbon conference, focusing on presenting the largest European research and technology conference on transport and mobility to the Portuguese [...]
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 99th Annual Meeting was held on January 12–16, 2020, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C. The theme for the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting was A Century of Progress: Foundation for the Future. ECTRI as TRB partner supported the following events: The 2050 Transportation Workforce Transformation Challenges: International prospects and Strategies (Workshop 1001): [...]
The 47th European Transport Conference, took place in Dublin, Ireland, on 9-11 October 2019. ECTRI was one of the conference supporters and presented the Associations’ activities, projects (e.g. BE OPEN and TRA 2020) and ETRR Journal in the exhibition area. At the conference it also took place the first BE OPEN project event on “Open Science [...]
The International Transport Forum 2018 Summit took place in Leipzig, Germany, from 22 to 24 May 2019. 41 ministers and vice-ministers, representatives from 71 nations and more than 1 100 delegates attended the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Development”. ECTRI contributed to the programme of the 2019 Summit, by providing inputs [...]
The ITF together with ECTRI, the US TRB and the WCTRS co-organised the 2019 Pre-Summit Research Day. The event took place on Tuesday, 21 May, one day prior to the official opening of the ITF Summit, in Leipzig (Germany). The Research Day brought together top academics and researchers to present and discuss topics relevant to [...]
The FIRM19 – FEHRL Infrastructure Research Meeting 2019, took place on 26 – 28 March 2019 in Brussels. FEHRL celebrated its 30th anniversary and played host to some 120 Transport Infrastructure Research Experts, from Europe and beyond, providing them with opportunities in identifying research priorities and to maintain the positive climate for cooperation between institutes. The [...]
The TRB 98th Annual Meeting took place in Washington, D.C. USA from 13 to 17 January 2019. The meeting program covered all transportation modes, with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops, addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. Several sessions [...]
On December 12, ECTRI celebrated its 15th Anniversary with a special event organised in Brussels. Over 170 invitees from more than 100 organizations, representatives from all transport sectors, from the European Commission and Member States, as well as ECTRI Members and associated or cooperating Organisations, have joined the event. They discovered the work of ECTRI [...]
