1. TRA 2008 Vili Zavrlan Malta, 25.10.2007

2. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 20072 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

3. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 20073 Status Report TRA 2008 will be the second in line of events organised by:

4. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 20074 Background Documents “First announcement for TRA 2008” distributed on 01.06.2006 – GB Reykjavik “TRA 2006 wrap up report” & “ToR TRA 2008 distributed on 10.10.2006 – GB Cracow “Second announcement & call for abstracts” sent on 17.03.2007 “Third announcement – Invitation for participants - Early Bird Registration” email 08.10.2007 & distributed at the PIARC Congress

5. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 20075 1- Management Committee 3 rd Mtg Portorož 06.06.2007 Decided on: 1/ Next meeting on 24 Jan 2008 Ljubljana 2/ Participants fees

6. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 20076 1- 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

7. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 20077 1- 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

8. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 20078 2- 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

9. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 20079 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

10. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 200710 3- Organising Committee 3rd announcement  11’000 emails, 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.

11. V. Zavrlan TRA 2008 Status Report – Oct 200711 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

12. TRA 2008 The End