On 18 April 2018, as a side event of TRA, AIT hosted the General Assembly of the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI). After a welcome address by Arno Klamminger, Head of Center for Mobility Systems, the opening remarks by Mark Robinson, president of ECTRI, and the official part of the assembly, Matthias Prandtstetter, Senior Scientist at the Center for Mobility Systems, gave a live demo of a routing app from the EU Project OPTIMUM and the participants visited AIT laboratories at Giefinggasse (battery laboratory, RoadSTAR, MoSeS - Mobile Seismic Simulator) and had dinner at Restaurant Leopoldauerhof.
ECTRI is an international non‐profit association that was officially founded in April 2003. It is the first attempt to unite the forces of the foremost multimodal transport research centers across Europe and to thereby promote the excellence of European transport research. Today, it includes 27 major transport research institutes or universities from 20 European countries. Together, they account for more than 4,000 European scientific and research staff in the field of transport. 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.