Athens, Greece – April 23-26, 2012
The Transport Research Arena (TRA) – Europe 2012 conference took place with a number of ECTRI supported sessions and events. ECTRI delegates were involved in four sessions and more than 120 researchers from 17 ECTRI Members (AIT, BASt, CERTH‐HIT, DLR, DTU, DVS, FhG, Ifsttar, KTI, LNEC, POLITO, SWOV, TNO, TRL, UPM, VTI and VTT) participated as speakers or authors.
ECTRI was actively involved in the preparation of the conference through the participation under ERTRAC platform of C. Piehler, ECTRI President and G. Giannopoulos, HIT as members in TRA 2012 Programme Committee. About 50 experts from the ECTRI network were involved in reviewing papers for all six TRA pillars. ECTRI also promoted the YEAR 2012 competition, in which ECTRI was partner in 2010, by encouraging its Young Researchers to participate. ECTRI widely advertised about the conference over the last months, initially among its members but also an a number of other events in order to attract the widest transport research community to take part in the event.
