Washington, D.C., USA – January 22-26, 2012
In the framework of the ECTRI-TRB MoU, ECTRI actively contributed by organizing a number of sessions, giving a European flavor to the 91st TRB Annual Meeting.
The ECTRI/TRB Action plan, which implements the ECTRI/TRB MoU was reviewed on January 22 in a session presided by G. Giannopoulos, HIT. The meeting focused in particular on the ECTRI Scanning tour 2012 and the Young Researchers Seminar 2012.
The EUTRAIN project was an important element of ECTRI’s activity at TRB. On January 22, the EUTRAIN project’s activities were presented by Prof. Giannopoulos, HIT. On the following day, Prof. Giannopoulos gave a presentation on ‘Promoting International Transport Research Cooperation: EU Activities and Future Work of the EUTRAIN project’ during the session National Frameworks Part 1: International perspective on Research Agenda setting. On January 24, C. Alméras, ECTRI Secretary General, presided the EUTRAIN project – Network of Related Entities (NRE) Launching event. Lastly, on January 27, there was a bilateral meeting presided by Prof. Giannopoulos, with US administrations, where six DoT related US Transport research organization were interviewed.
On January 22, P. Leviakangas, VTT presided a session titled ‘Exploring Extreme Weather Impacts on Transportation Systems Operations in Europe: Opportunities for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation’. On January 23, A. Dupont-Kieffer, Ifsttar, presided the first meeting of the Scientific Committee of the 5th Conference on Women’s issues in Transportation, which is supported by ECTRI and expected to take place in April 2014 in Paris, France. Prof. N. Paulley, TRL, ECTRI Vice-President participated as ECTRI representative in the Scientific Committee.