About Transport Research Arena
In 2024, Transport Research Arena (TRA) takes place in Dublin, Ireland from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 April. The theme for TRA2024 is “Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility”.
TRA, the Transport Research Arena, is the foremost European transport event that covers all transport modes and all aspects of mobility. It is the largest European research and technology conference on transport and mobility.
Transport Research Arena (TRA) offers a great venue for researchers, policymakers and industry representatives to get together and contribute to the discussion on how research and innovation can reshape the transport and mobility system. The conference provides a unique opportunity to hear about mobility trends in different parts of Europe, learn from achievements in the industry as well as share best practices of policies and deployments.
The TRA2024 conference will take place from 15-18 April 2024, at the RDS, Dublin, Ireland.
More Information about Transport Research Arena
The first Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference was held in Goteburg, Sweden, in 2006 and since then has become a key European transport conference for presenting the latest research and innovation in the transport sector, covering all modes of transport: road, rail, water, aviation as well as cross-modality and passenger/freight transport in urban and inter-urban settings. The conference addresses the main challenges in transport and mobility of people and goods, with respect to energy, environment, safety and security and socio-economic issues. It aims to explore the most advanced research works and innovations, the latest technological and industrial developments and implementations, and innovative policies, in Europe and worldwide. As a wide forum open to all interested parties, it is a unique occasion to promote transport.
Transport Research Arena (TRA) provides the arena for:
- Research, industry, public administrations, transport operators, users and other stakeholders across all transport modes
- Policy makers framing research and transport policy
- New ideas, technological solutions and new business models
- Experiencing the future of transport and mobility
- Mobilising the best brains and exchanges of information and best practices
- Transport Research Arena (TRA) is co-organised by the European Commission and a number of European transport-related organisations covering all transport modes.
TRA2024 Key People
Minister Eamon Ryan
President of TRA 2024
John McCarthy
Managing Committee
Ciaran McNally
Programme Committee
Beatriz Martinez Pastor
Coordination and Support Action
Caroline Stanners
Organising Committee
TRA2024 Managing Committee
John McCarthy
TRA2024 MC Chair
Department of Transport Ireland
Albert Daly
TRA2024 Director
Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Jennifer Sherry
TRA2024 Coordinator
Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Richella Mulvihill
TRA2024 Associate Director
Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Esther Madden
Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Celine Crawford
TRA2024 Associate Director
ARUP Ireland
Ciaran McNally
Chair of TRA2024 PC
University College Dublin
Beatriz Martinez-Pastor
TRA2024 CSA Leader
University College Dublin
Bob Flynn
European Liaison
Enterprise Ireland
Caroline Stanners
TRA2024 OC Chair
Conference Partners Ireland (CPI)
Steve Philips
CEDR
Jenne van der Velde
CEDR
Uwe Moeller
ACARE
Joris Melkert
ACARE
Andrea Gentili
European Commission DG RTD
Philippe Froissard
European Commission DG RTD
Patrick Mercier-Handisyde
European Commission DG RTD
Torstem Klimke
European Commission DG MOVE
Maria Carbone
European Commission DG MOVE
Fernando Liesa
ALICE
Dirk’t Hooft
ALICE
Roland Moser
ERRAC
Giorgio Travaini
ERRAC
Stephan Neugebauer
ERTRAC
Jean-luc di Paola-Galloni
ERTRAC
Josef Affenzeller
ERTRAC
Xavier Aertsens
ERTRAC
Armando Carrillo
ETRA
Thierry Goger
ETRA
Caroline Alméras
ETRA
Clemente Fuggini
ECTP
Miguel Segarra
ECTP
Jaap Gebraad
WATERBORNE
David Abril
WATERBORNE
Mafalda Dourado
ANI Portugal
Cristiana Leandro
ANI Portugal
Máté Verdes
TRA2024 Observer
Hungarian Roads
Judit Tóbiás
TRA2024 Observer
Hungarian Roads
András Munkáscy
TRA2024 Observer
KTI Hungarian Institute for Transport Sciences and Logistics
Domokos Esztergár-Kiss
TRA2024 Observer
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
The stakeholders are:
- The European Commission
- Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR)
- European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC)
- European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC)
- European Technology Platform Waterborne (Waterborne)
- European Technology Platform Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe (ALICE)
- European Construction, built environment and energy efficient building Technology Platform (ECTP)
- Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE)
- European Transport Research Alliance (ETRA)
- The hosts of the upcoming Transport Research Arena (TRA) – once the selection process has been completed
Ireland has been approved as the host of TRA2024 in April 2024 by Transport Research Arena (TRA) Management Committee.