Washington, D.C., USA – January 23-27, 2011
ECTRI actively participated in the Transport Research Board 2011. The following ECTRI representatives attended the conference: Neil Paulley, ECTRI Vice-President, TRL, United Kingdom – George Giannopoulos, CERTH-HIT, Greece – Cristina Pronello, ECTRI Treasurer, LET, France – Josef Mikulik, CDV, Czech Republic – Francesc Robusté, CENIT, Spain – Hélène Jacquot-Guimbal, Patrick Malléjacq and Jean-Pierre Médevielle, IFSTTAR, France- Fred Wegman, SWOV, The Netherlands.
On January 23, 2010, at the ECTRI- TRB meeting, George Giannopoulos, Neil Paulley, Jean-Pierre Médevielle met with Martine Miccozzi & Jorge Prozzi and discussed the ECTRI-TRB MoU 2 year Joint Plan of Activities.
On January 24, 2011, Neil Paulley gave a presentation on ‘Models of Transportation Financing, Operation, and Management in the United Kingdom at the International Research and Technology Transfer subcommittee A0010(2) session. On that same day, N. Paulley also participated on behalf of ECTRI in the FEHRL luncheon and the SHRP2 International meeting.
On January 25, 2011, at the Transport Research without borders session, C. Pronello gave a presentation on ‘Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program’ and P. Malléjacq presented ‘ERA-NET Roads: collaborative Research Program in the European Union’. At the Research implementation, Moving from ideas to implementation session, G. Giannopoulos together with O. A. Elrahman gave a presentation on ‘Opportunities and Challenges in advancing Transformative Research: The Case of Transportation Research on Both Sides of the Atlantic’.