European Conference of Transport Research Institutes
The European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) is an international non‐profit Association that was founded in April 2003. It is unique in uniting the forces of the foremost multimodal transport research centres across Europe and to thereby promote the excellence of European transport research.
Members of ECTRI are major transport research institutes and universities from the different European countries. Together, they account for more than 4,000 scientific and research staff in the field of transport and mobility.
ECTRI as the leading European research association for sustainable and multimodal mobility is committed to provide the scientifically based competence, knowledge, and advice to move towards a green, safe, efficient, and inclusive transport for people and goods.
ECTRI’s missions are:
- to facilitate the representation and cooperation of its Members,
- to provide independent, evidence‐based advice to decision-makers in Europe, and
- to promote mobility research and enhancing its scientific quality and effectiveness.
Six ambitious strategic objectives are defined to drive ECTRI towards its above Vision and Mission. Those objectives takes into account the major policies’ developments and the main societal trends and driving forces that are foreseen to affect the European transport and mobility system in the coming decade; they also reflects on the requirements and needs of ECTRI Members, partners and customers. For more information, please refer to the ECTRI Strategy 2021-2030: https://www.ectri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-12-07_ECTRI-STRATEGY_2021-2030_Final.pdf