In September 2017, the European Commission has launched a new platform: the Transport Research and Innovation Monitoring and Information System, or TRIMIS, which replaces the Transport Research & Innovation Portal (TRIP), and incorporates the latter’s database of over 10,000 EU and national transport research projects and programmes. These cover a number of areas, namely: cooperative, connected and automated transport; transport electrification; vehicle design and manufacturing; low-emission alternative energy for transport; network and traffic management systems; smart mobility and services; infrastructure.

TRIMIS maps and analyses new and emerging transport technologies, R&I investments and capacities across Europe’s transport sector, with the aim to:

• disseminate information on the status of research and innovation funded at EU or Member State level
• assess and monitor the impact and effectiveness of research projects (i.e. how they contribute to a clean, connected and competitive European transport system)
• ensure a systematic horizon scanning.

Being a general source of information and data on transport research and innovation, TRIMIS supports transport policy makers and researchers by helping to identify innovations with the greatest promise for the future, and aid policy makers to focus on areas where public intervention can create the highest added value.

To find out more about the tool, to sign up to regular transport research and innovation updates or to submit your research project or programme to the TRIMIS database, visit the TRIMIS website.