TRIP Transport Research & Innovation Portal

www.transport-research.info

Access to International Transportation Research

Information Conference TRB

12 September 2012

Contents

• Background: scope, goals and history

• Inside TRIP: what to be found, search mechanism, quick “roundTRIP”

• External links – partnerships: EU and national databases, potential and bottlenecks, link to TRID

Previously TRKC, TRIP has been a strong contributor to dissemination and promotion of transport research and

innovation since the initiative was created in 1997.

TRIP is the one single portal for all transport research conducted on European and national

levels.

What is TRIP?

Main Goals of TRIP

awareness understanding

Increase awareness of EU, national and

international transport research activities and

results

Enhance understanding of transport research projects activities and

results

Encourage the active take up of the transport

research activities and outcomes

active take-up

TRIP offers easy access to the most up-to-date

information in one single portal

TRIP offers aggregated analysis of transport

research results organised into 24 themes

TRIP stimulates innovation by accelerating the

application of research results through extended

networking

Who Benefits?

Policy makers at local, national and EU level, in the EU and beyond, researchers of transport and mobility,

RTD professionals, service providers, research users, and citizens can all benefit from TRIP.

TRIP increases awareness, understanding, and active take-up of transport activities and results. Easy access to the most up to date information is key to building and sharing knowledge, creating

solutions, and innovating for the future.

Key processes

awareness access

Increase awareness of EU, national and

international transport research activities and

results

Enhance access to transport research

projects activities and results

Strengthen the contents basis by providing relevant results of transport research

contents

TRIP is reaching out for TRIP users by actively

communicating transport research and innovation

and building partnerships

TRIP constantly expands its database by adding

information on projects, programmes and countries

TRIP offers easy access to the most up-to-date

information on one single website

Inside TRIP

• Project Database of more than 7,300 transport research related projects

• Country Profiles presenting national institutions

and organisations responsible for promoting and supporting transport research

• Programmes for research and innovation in transport

Inside TRIP

• Policy Brochures presenting highlights of the research results according to policy topics, and Research Summaries on 24 transport themes

• Videos for each policy brochure

• News of the latest in transport research, policies and innovation including monthly e-Newsletters

• Events Calendar of high-level international transport conferences

Welcome to the TRIP website! http://www.transport-research.info

Find information on TRIP

• Full text search – Searches entire portal and related documents

• Database Search – Searches database fields associated with projects

e.g. title, origin, date, keyword, and more

Project Database Results

Acronym

Full title

Duration

Key themes

Source of funding

Contact information

Key project information

Country Profiles

The country profile sections presents national

institutions and organisations responsible

for promoting and supporting transport

research

All ERA Member States 30 Countries

Programmes

The Programme section contains

different programmes

which provide funding for

transport research at national,

European and international level.

Publications

TRIP publications comprise:

Policy Brochures presenting

highlights of the research results

according to policy topics, and

Research Summaries on 24 transport themes

.

Policy Brochures n 1 & n 2

Publications

News & Newsletters

News of the latest in

transport research,

policies and innovation

including monthly e-

Newsletters

Actively Contribute

Your contribution is important!

Submit project info

Share news

Publicise events

External links - partnerships

• Positioning TRIP - need for partnerships

• Linking with other databases

Positioning TRIP

CORDIS

TRIP EC entities: DG RTD,

Connect, etc

National programmes

Sectoral databases:

UIC, etc

ERKC

Other sectors

EC projects: HERMES, ETNA, etc

Positioning TRIP

CORDIS

TRIP EC entities: DG RTD,

Connect, etc

National programmes

Sectoral databases:

UIC, etc

ERKC

Other sectors

EC projects: HERMES, ETNA, etc

TRB - TRID

Opportunities and challenges

• Excellent cooperation in covering EU funded transport research.

• In addition, there is a lot….. many initiatives at national and sectoral level. Willingness to share and exchange.

• Currently in the process of how to best manage this process.

• Challenging to fully integrate databases, for various reasons. Considering set of alternatives.

Cooperation with TRID

• Fits TRIP ambitions

• Mutual benefits: • TRID: Coverage of transport research, notably EU funded

• TRIP: Awareness and access to additional contents

• Facilitated by long-term commitment and funding for TRIP