Dear colleagues, you are warmly invited to submit information to our new Transport Digest.  This will be a vehicle for sharing information with researchers, practitioners and policy makers on activities, projects and opportunities in transport across the UK.

The UKTRC is an academically-based research centre which has been created to bring together leading researchers in transport and the social sciences; to develop new ways of tackling the major transport challenges now facing society.  The Centre is jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Scottish Government (SG), through an ESRC grant.  It is led by a consortium of three transport research centres – the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London, the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London and the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds – but its activities are open to all leading academic transport and social science research groups.   We want to work closely with the transport policy making and practitioner communities, as well as NGOs, industry and private consultancies. 
 
We plan to issue the first digest in October so please do get in touch with your comments and contributions and please feel free to pass this email on to your contacts.  You can find out more about UKTRC by visiting our website at www.uktrc.ac.uk – if you have time please take also take part in our survey – your feedback is welcome.

Kind Regards

Ayesha Owusu-Barnaby



Communications Manager
UK Transport Research Centre
Rm 216 Chadwick Building
Gower Street
London 
WC1E 6BT

020 7679 1573
www.uktrc.ac.uk


Our goals 
•	Making connections: providing a forum for networking and exchange among different social scientists and with practitioners, policy makers and the private sector.
•	Channelling expertise: bringing together leading academics in customised research teams to address specific transport research and policy challenges.
•	Stimulating innovation: providing environments in which new interdisciplinary thinking and experimentation with new methods is encouraged.
•	Showcasing research excellence: drawing on and promoting the wealth of existing social science research that has potential relevance to transport research and practice
•	Informing policy: drawing out the policy implications of research findings and strengthening the evidence base.
•	Building research capacity: providing training opportunities for younger researchers and practitioners.