Value proposition

Creating clean and efficient transport that is safe, reliable and accessible for everyone

TRL is a team of expert scientists, engineers and specialists who work together with our clients and partners to create the future of transport.

The TRL group of companies is owned by the Transport Research Foundation: a non profit-distributing social purpose company that enables our experts to give independent advice without influence from shareholders or finance companies. We work to make transport safer, cleaner and more accessible for everyone.

TRL:
• Publishes software that helps the world’s largest cities, and many smaller towns too, reduce pollution, carbon footprint and congestion with advanced traffic management, better road design and asset management and safety data analysis.
• Offers consultancy and advisory services based on our leading edge research into infrastructure, vehicles and human behaviours which enables safer, cleaner, more efficient transport
• Delivers detailed incident investigation, structural survey and other high value field services to help clients to improve the service they give their customers
• Works with universities and other partners to invest in basic and applied research that will underpin future needs
• Has built, with its partners in government and industry, the Smart Mobility Living Lab: the world’s first physical and virtual testbed in a global megacity (London) that lets companies test new mobility products and services safely on live public roads.

Established in 1933 as the UK government’s Road Research Laboratory, the renamed TRL was privatised in 1996 and today has more than 1000 clients in many countries. Our headquarters are in Crowthorne House, near Bracknell, and we have offices in Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Germany and India.


Human factors & behavioural science, Intelligent asset management, Intelligent transport systems, Investigations & major incident forensics, Sustainability & climate change, Transport safety, Vehicle engineering, simulation & technology, New mobility, and CAV