The annual TRICS® User Meeting is held at a venue in London in June each year. These events have taken place since 1996 and have proven to be very popular with our member organisations. They are ideal for users who want to find out more about the system and its associated projects and have always been an ideal opportunity to meet with other members of the TRICS® Community and provide much welcomed feedback and ideas.
These events consist of a number of PowerPoint presentations on topics such as system development, research projects and technical analyses, feedback from our annual TRICS® User Survey, case studies of TRICS® use and multi-modal surveys, TRICS® good practice, and guest speakers presenting their own topics and projects that are associated with TRICS®. The aim of this event is to cover the wider project to provide an overview of what is happening and to exchange ideas about its future. There is also a session that acts as an open forum where a general discussion takes place, whilst at the same time there is an alternative option to attend a TRICS® system demonstration, which is always handy for new users and for those looking to refresh their knowledge of the system.
The TRICS® User Meeting is also a great opportunity to mix with other members of the TRICS® Community over a buffet lunch. It is in informal yet productive event that we believe has served both the TRICS® team and our users well over many years.
This is the venue that was originally booked for the 2020 event that did not end up taking place, but this week we have secured our booking for September and we really look forward to meeting with the TRICS Community again. Please put this date in your calendars and further details will follow in due course.
In terms of booking arrangements our on-line system is scheduled to go live in June. This allows us plenty of time to monitor the situation in the UK and to put together our programme of presentations and interactive sessions (for which we already have plenty of ideas shortlisted). Our booking as it stands is without social distancing, so we really do hope we can return to a “normal” User Meeting this year after what would have been a gap of over two years, with around 100 attendees from across the UK and Ireland. However, should a form of social distancing be required the venue can adapt accordingly. That would mean a reduced capacity, so it is good that we are able to wait until June before we can have better information on what the situation is likely to be.
As usual for this event, in addition to the presentations in the main room there will be a split session in the afternoon, with a full system demonstration of TRICS taking place alongside an open interactive discussion forum, so this means the event will be good for both new and experienced TRICS users alike. We are also pleased to confirm that places at the event will be free to our users (one from each registered licence holding office), on a first come first served basis. Also please note that due to the User Meeting taking place in September this year there will be no TRICS Training & Development Forum taking place in November. However, we fully intend to revert back to our usual June User Meetings and our November Training & Development Forums from 2022.
All of the team here at TRICS look forward to resuming our popular events once again and to meeting our users at what is always an informal yet productive get together that always brings great feedback and new ideas to our projects.
The annual TRICS® Training & Development Forum is held at a venue within a different UK region in November each year. These events have taken place since 2015 and have also been proven to be popular with our member organisations. They are similar in some ways to the annual TRICS® User Meetings, but these events are slightly more system-focused, with an emphasis on the day to day use of TRICS® as opposed to the wider TRICS® project that is covered at our User Meetings. The Training & Development Forums are also slightly shorter in length given their regional locations, to make transport arrangements easier for attendees.
These events consist of PowerPoint presentations on subjects such as system development, annual data collection programmes, a shorter version of a system demonstration highlighting specific points of interest, and a focus on other specific technical elements of the system and associated technical analyses. Like the User Meeting the event ends with an open forum session for the exchange of ideas and the opportunity for everyone to have their say on the future of TRICS® system development.
Just like the TRICS® User Meeting, the TRICS® Training & Development Forum also provides a good opportunity to mix with other members of the TRICS® Community over a buffet lunch, and is an informal yet productive event from which we receive many good ideas and much valued technical feedback from attendees.
TRICS Consortium Limited are pleased to announce that the 25th Annual TRICS User Meeting will be taking place in London on Wednesday 25th November 2020. The annual User Meeting remains a free event (one person per member organisation office), and following a well-attended event in 2019 we are expecting bookings to once again come thick and fast this year, so please book your places as soon as possible to avoid any potential disappointment (places are limited). The User Meeting is an ideal forum for both new and experienced users of TRICS, consisting of a series of presentations relating to the TRICS system and its associated projects. It is an excellent opportunity to network with members of the TRICS Community from across the UK and Ireland, and is always an event that allows all attendees to provide their own feedback and ideas as to how TRICS should continue to be developed and improved in the future. As in previous years, there is also the opportunity to refresh your knowledge of how the TRICS system works through an interactive system demonstration in the afternoon, which is one of two options available, the other being an open forum on all elements of the project that allows members to exchange their ideas freely.
As with previous years, we have put together a line-up of presentations for this year’s event that covers a variety of topics associated with TRICS. The first presentation is a talk on the results of the 2020 TRICS User Survey, and the system enhancements that have been introduced this year as a result of this much valued feedback. This will be followed by a presentation on how TRICS is returning to its regional data collection programme following the UK lockdown period, and how we will be making up for lost time with more surveys in 2021, as well as our thoughts on potential changes in travel habits in the longer term, and how we can assist in studying these through re-surveys at existing TRICS developments. After a tea and coffee break mid-morning, we have two guest presentations. The first is a talk on a collaboration between TRICS and Norfolk County Council, which saw 20 residential sites surveyed in 2019 to monitor travel plans across the county, providing a summary of Norfolk’s A to Better project and how our organisations worked together to deliver the results. This will be followed by a talk on the largest ever survey undertaken for TRICS, a re-survey at Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush, London, which was the first survey to cover over 100,000 inbound trips.
The data collection contractor who undertook this project will present a summary of how such a major site was tackled, in terms of adapting the TRICS multi-modal methodology to maximise efficiency and accuracy. After lunch, a representative from a local authority will discuss how they deal with Transport Assessments that use TRICS data, in terms of assessing trip generation and the level of detail that is required from those supplying TA’s. The final presentation will look at an interactive data extraction tool, containing all of the data from the 2018 large survey at the new community of Cambourne in Cambridgeshire, which is now freely available to TRICS users, and we shall provide worked examples of how data can be extracted and analysed using this new facility. Once the main presentations are over, there is then the option to attend the TRICS open forum or the TRICS system demonstration, which ends the day.
This year we are pleased to be holding our event at BMA House of the British Medical Association. It is located next to Tavistock Square in Central London, and is close to Euston rail station, so can be easily reached by various methods of public transport.
With period features and state of the art AV facilities, this venue provides an enticing mix of history and technical excellence that never fails to impress organisers and attendees alike. We feel that this is an excellent choice for our annual event, and further details of the venue can be found at their website at http://bmahouse.org.uk/
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Places at this event are FREE to one delegate from each user organisation office. To book your place, please complete the on-line booking form. A member of the TRICS team will then confirm your place at the event by email. Also, please note that the fees for second and subsequent places are £160 + VAT this year.
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