The Transport Research Arena (TRA) is a leading European transport conference and exhibition co-organised every two years by the European Commission together with a host country.

The beginning of March is a particularly busy time for AET. While AET public activity is concentrated around the European Transport Conference, Transport & Mobility Forum and the AET Hackathon, much more goes on behind the scenes to run our organisation. One of these activities is the AET Council meeting, which was held on 6th March and hosted by the City of London Corporation in the UK.

We are delighted to announce that AET Association for European Transport and ECTRI – European Conference of Transport Research Institutes have recently renewed their Memorandum of Understanding for a further three years.

The preparation for the next European Transport Conference has started, and many are already preparing their trips even before submitting an abstract. As it was announced during ETC 2025, the next conference will take place in Porto, Portugal, 9 – 11 September 2026.