Transport Research and Innovation Board

The Transport Research and Innovation Board (TRIB) encourages and supports collaborative research and innovation across the UK transport sector.

The TRIB brings together representatives from the key transport research and innovation organisations and funders in the UK, as well as government departments with an interest in transport.

The objectives of the board are to:

  • join-up leaders:  identify priority areas; areas with most promise and where to focus effort
  • join-up activities: co-ordinate activities to meet shared strategic needs, improving value from existing and planned work
  • leverage funding: enable the funding of larger-scale, more ambitious projects
  • facilitate demonstrators: accelerating ideas and testing them in practice to bring them to market sooner
  • engage globally: seize an advantage in the rapidly evolving and economically strategic transport technology sector
  • create a line of sight to government priorities: understand the priorities of the Secretaries of State of the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Chair

David Prout, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Oxford University

Members

  • Jo Shanmugalingam, Department for Transport, Second Permanent Secretary and TRIB Senior Responsible Officer
  • Sarah Sharples, Department for Transport, Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Hannah Newell, Department for Transport, Director of Future Transport Systems and Environment
  • Claire Wren, Department for Transport, Director of Future Transport Systems and Environment
  • David Coles, Department for Transport, Chief Engineer, Chair of TRIB Infrastructure Working Group
  • Robert Ampomah, Network Rail, Chief Technology Officer
  • Claire Spooner, Director of Mobility, Innovate UK
  • Gary Elliott, Aerospace Technology Institute, CEO
  • Mark Kemp, The Association of Directors of Economy, Environment, Planning and Transport President, Immediate Past President
  • Julia Sutcliffe, Department for Business and Trade, Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Paul Monks, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Ally Lewis, Chair of the DfT Science Advisory Council
  • Mark Phillips, Rail Standards and Safety Board, CEO
  • Danny Williams, Active Travel England, CEO
  • Joy Todd, UKRI – Economic and Social Research Council, Executive Chair
  • Colette Ricketts, HS2, Project Controls Department Director
  • Neil Rawlinson, High Value Manufacturing Catapult, Strategy Director
  • Virginia McVea, Maritime Coastguard Agency, CEO
  • Joanna White, National Highways, Research, Development and Innovation Director
  • Robin Beckmann, Head of Transport Environment and Climate Change, Welsh Government
  • Kedar Pandya, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Executive Director for Cross-Council Programmes
  • Crystal Moore, i3P, Senior Lead
  • Erika Lewis, Connected Places Catapult, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

  • Wolfgang Schuster, Connected Places Catapult, Executive Director, Ecosystem Innovation, Chair of TRIB Transport Systems Working Group

Contact details

TRIBSecretariat@dft.gov.uk

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