TRA 2008 Vili Zavrlan Malta,

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Status Report Date and venue: Ljubljana April 21 st – 25 th, 2008 Purpose of this report:  An update on the preparations  Request for decision / action

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Status Report TRA 2008 will be the second in line of events organised by:

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Background Documents “First announcement for TRA 2008” distributed on – GB Reykjavik “TRA 2006 wrap up report” & “ToR TRA 2008 distributed on – GB Cracow “Second announcement & call for abstracts” sent on “Third announcement – Invitation for participants - Early Bird Registration” & distributed at the PIARC Congress

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Management Committee 3 rd Mtg Portorož Decided on: 1/ Next meeting on 24 Jan 2008 Ljubljana 2/ Participants fees

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Management Committee 1/ Participants fees (cont) Fees are driven by how much people are prepared to pay The budget takes into account the quality of the conference and number of participants Committee members will pay 50% of the fees Half the income is expected from exhibitors

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Management Committee 3/ Plenary Sessions 3 plenary sessions on greener, safer & smarter Climate change discussed under all 3 topics 4/ Poster Sessions Same time as parallel sessions for the academia 5/ Slogan for announcements: “On the move to TRA” 6/ Questions raised on Future TRAs EU funds An outside company organising TRAs Continuation of MC members

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Program Committee Successful meeting attendance at last 2 meetings 423 abstracts received – 405 abstracts accepted Deadline for full paper submission: 15 October 2007 Next PC meeting: 23 October 2007 to organise reviewing the papers and the sessions 9 Strategic sessions selected from the 15 proposed topics

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct CEDR’s Strategic Sessions I.5 - European Trans-National Joint Research Collaboration II.2 - Road pricing and tolling (with CP) III.1 - Transport Security (with CP, DG RTD) V.7 - Standardisation & Legislation (with ERTRAC) V.8 - Pavement and Infrastructure Management  The structure and content of the sessions are being developed by our TGs and PGs

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Organising Committee 3rd announcement  11’000 s, 4’000 addresses  PIARC Congress Paris, ERTRAC conference, climate change Brussels, congresses in Bosnia, Herzegovina & Croatia Website updated for on-line registration 4th announcement (Deadline: 30 October 2007)  Plenary & strategic sessions programme  All other information: accommodation, events, etc.

V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct Actions 1/ The GB members should indicate key note speakers for the opening and closing sessions 2/ The GB members shall stimulate exhibitors and sponsors in their countries 3/ The NRA shall indicate the exhibition space they desire

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