TRICS® Training & Development Forum

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The system that challenges and
validates assumptions about the
transport impacts of new developments.

It is the UK and Ireland’s national system of trip generation analysis, containing over 7150 directional transport surveys at over 110 types of development. TRICS® was founded and is owned by 6 County Councils in the south of England, collectively the TRICS® Consortium. However, its annual collection programme covers the whole of the UK and Ireland, across 17 defined regions.

This is reflected in the national spread of member organisations across each of these regions, which we know as the TRICS® Community.

This is the website for that community, as well as being a resource for anyone interested in the field of trip generation analysis. Please have a look around – we look forward to receiving your feedback.

On behalf of TRICS® Consortium Ltd,
I would like to welcome you to the
home of the TRICS® Community.

TRICS® is the national system of trip generation analysis for the UK and Ireland, an essential method of measuring the likely transport generated by new developments. I am pleased to be part of the management group that delivers this integral and established feature of the transport planning and development management process.

2015 sees a milestone in the TRICS® journey. On 1st January 2015 the project was for the first time run by its own company. The creation of this new company will enable the current system to be promoted in foreign countries and will also enable the team to develop some new and exciting products to serve the Transportation Industry. Both these areas of work will enable increased development of our current system and help to improve and expand our data collection programme; all to the benefit of our current members and the wider transport planning industry.

From the outset in 1989, we determined that the users should have an ongoing and direct input into how the project was to be developed, and this unique working relationship with the TRICS® Community has culminated in many upgrades and re-writes over the years, with major milestones being the development of a version of TRICS® for Windows, the introduction of the live system on the web, and, more recently, the major upgrade of the user interface that is TRICS® 7.

Meet the team

Nick Rabbets (Managing Director) 020 3657 2184/ 07500 043 360 nick.rabbets@trics.org	Ian Coles (Project Manager) 020 3657 2185 07799 778 878 ian.coles@trics.org
Owen Edwards (Assistant Manager) 020 3657 2187/ 07765 383 630 owen.edwards@trics.org	Siddika Begum (Operations Officer) 020 3657 2186 siddika.begum@trics.org
Ben Brown (Technical Officer) 020 3927 8488/ 07826 180 609 ben.brown@trics.org	Tracey Spencer (Operations Officer) 020 3657 2188 tracey.spencer@trics.org

User training & demonstrations

The sessions consist of a full system demonstration, in which all parts of the system are covered. This lasts approximately one hour, and is then followed by an optional "hands-on" session where attendees can practice using the latest version of the TRICS® software with specially-designed "test sheets". This is designed to introduce new users to the system.

Each demonstration/training session costs £500 + VAT, and is free of charge to TRICS® member universities. Organisations hosting sessions are asked to provide a computer and projector for the demonstration part of the session, and also to provide the computer facilities for the training part of the session. Non-member organisations will be provided with temporary access to the TRICS® system for the purposes of the session.

One month free trial

A free trial of TRICS® will allow you to view the system's features and the ever-expanding database of transport surveys which TRICS® offers. It is ideal for those interested in purchasing a software licence, allowing them to evaluate the system in full before committing to membership. The only restriction during the trial period is that you cannot use TRICS® for commercial purposes, with the trial being for evaluation purposes only. So why not try the system out before you become a member?

Many new members of the TRICS® Community originally took up this offer, which provides trialists with full use of the latest version of the system, along with unlimited user support. The TRICS® Team can set up your free trial today, it's quick and it's easy - contact us to request your free trial

SAM has been developed by TRICS® as a system of monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of travel plans. It uses long established TRICS® methods of multi-modal data collection enhanced with comprehensive information on travel plan details to produce robust travel plan survey results. Click here for more information.

TRICS office is closing over the festive
period, for the purposes of moving from
5pm on 22 December 2015 to 9am on
5 January 2016.

Our new address as of 5th January 2016 will be as follows:
TRICS Consortium Limited, Office 205, 2 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9DX

Our new numbers as of 5th January 2016 will be:
02036572184 - Nick
02036572185 - Ian
02036572186 - Siddika
02036572187 - Owen

News

TRICS Training & Development Forum 2019
FULLY BOOKED - NO MORE SPACES AVAILABLE!!!

Wednesday 27th November 2019 – The King’s Centre, Oxford

The fourth annual TRICS Training & Development Forum is to be held on Wednesday 27th November in Oxford. Following a successful third event in York last year, we are very pleased to announce that this year’s event will be taking place at The King’s Centre in Oxford, and that once again this event is free to member organisations (one attendee per member office) on a first come first served basis (places are limited). Non-members of TRICS who are considering joining are also welcome to attend.

Deadline for New TRICS Survey Commissions – 31st May 2019
Please note that the deadline for new independently commissioned TRICS surveys in the current Spring survey window has been set at 31st May 2019. This means that no further survey requests can be accepted for surveys to take place in the current window after this date. We will of course take on new commissions after 31st of May, but such commissions would be for surveys taking place in the Autumn 2019 window which opens after the school Summer holidays in September. The lead up to the end of each survey window is always a busy time for the TRICS team, hence the need to put realistic deadlines in place for new commissions.

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TRICS Technical Note:

A Comparison of Vehicular Trip Rate Variation by TRICS Regions and Location Types – October 2019

TRICS Consortium Limited is pleased to announce the publication of a new Technical Note, “A Comparison of Vehicular Trip Rate Variation by TRICS Regions and Location Types”, which is now freely available to download by everyone. This report presents the findings of research recently undertaken by the TRICS team into vehicular trip rate variation by region, when compared to an identical exercise by TRICS location type. It examines vehicular trip rate variance by examining three of the largest and most often used land use categories in the TRICS database, these being 01/A (Food Superstores), 02/A (Offices), and 03/A (Houses Privately Owned). Our existing TRICS Good Practice guidance has always advised that our users should refrain from deselecting sites by geographical region as a default method, and instead should consider the TRICS location type along with a number of other local factors that may influence vehicular trip rates. We have now undertaken a set of technical analyses using the TRICS database to provide further clarity on this subject to our Good Practice Guide, which is being updated in 2020. A presentation on the report and its findings will be given at the 2019 TRICS Training & Development Forum in Oxford this November. Click HERE to download the full report in PDF format.

Deadline for New TRICS Survey Commissions - 11th October 2019
Please note that the deadline for new independently commissioned TRICS surveys in the current Autumn survey window has been set at 11th October 2019. This means that no further survey requests can be accepted for surveys to take place in the current window after this date. We will of course take on new commissions after 11th of October, but such commissions would be for surveys taking place in the Spring 2020 window which opens in March. The lead up to the end of each survey window is always a busy time for the TRICS team, hence the need to put realistic deadlines in place for new commissions.

TRICS Guidance Note on Changes in Travel Behaviour

TRICS Consortium Limited (TRICS) is responding to the fact that the world is experiencing significant change in relation to social, technological, economic and environmental drivers which in turn is creating new dynamics in travel behaviour and challenges for transport planning. In the face of deep uncertainty, the “predict and provide” paradigm that has framed transport planning processes is to give way to “decide and provide” paradigm – decide on the preferred future and provide the means to work towards that which can accommodate uncertainty. Click HERE for more information and to download the report in full.

24th Annual TRICS® User Meeting Presentations

Cambourne Village A Summary of Main Findings