The deadline for new TRICS SAM survey commissions in this Autumn’s survey window passed on the 9th of September 2024. Therefore, any new requests for SAM surveys will need to be for the Spring 2025 window, which opens on the 1st of March.

There has been high demand for SAM commissions in 2024, and there are good signs that this trend is going to continue into next year. For each survey window we need to set a deadline as the process requires lead time, both for ourselves and our TRICS-approved data collection contractors, and we ensure that each deadline is announced with a good amount of notice.

If any organisation wishes to commission SAM surveys they can get in touch with the TRICS team at any time so that projects can be set up for the Spring 2025 window

The deadline for requests for new TRICS Standardised Assessment Methodology (SAM) surveys to take place in the Autumn 2024 survey window is noon on Monday 9th September 2024.

After this deadline, no new requests for SAM surveys to take place in the Autumn 2024 window will be accepted, with the next available survey window commencing in March 2025. We will not be able to make any exceptions to this, as 2024 is another busy year for TRICS SAM survey commissions. Our data collection contractors require reasonable lead times to prepare for commissioned surveys, especially those which require significant resources and enumerators, and the TRICS team also need to be able to plan our site visits and production of survey specifications to a workable timescale. Also, please note that any new surveys that are requested close to the deadline will require swift turnarounds in terms of the signing of survey agreements and, subsequently, authorisation to proceed with surveys (including the submission of purchase orders), to ensure that surveys can take place within the Autumn window, avoiding them having to be postponed until Spring 2025 (with site visit fees charged to clients as a result).

The TRICS team will, as always, do whatever we can to accommodate our clients’ requests for SAM surveys to assist in the monitoring of travel plans for a range of developments. This is an important part of the work that we do, and we are in the process of managing many SAM projects. This is something that will continue right through until the end of this year.

TRICS Consortium Limited are pleased to announce that we are now taking bookings for the 27th annual TRICS User Meeting, which is taking place on Tuesday 26th November 2024 at One Birdcage Walk in Westminster, London.

Each TRICS licence-holding office can claim a free place at this event, and all details about it can be found in a dedicated section of our website which can be accessed via the homepage. We have some great speakers and presentations lined up for this event, as well as a Guest Chair (Glenn Lyons, President of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation), and we are expecting booking requests to come in quickly, so please book your place as soon as possible to avoid potential disappointment. All bookings will be dealt with on a first come, first served basis.

As always, this event will cover a range of topics associated with the TRICS project, and there will also be the option of attending a full TRICS system demonstration or an open forum in the final session of the day. This is also a great opportunity to mix with numerous other members of the TRICS community from across the UK and Ireland, along with our sponsor organisations.

The TRICS team look forward to welcoming you.

The TRICS Consortium Board of Directors are delighted to announce the appointment of Ian Coles as the company's new Managing Director, with this effective from the 21st of September 2024.

Ian replaces Lynn Basford, who was appointed as Interim Managing Director in September 2023. Lynn has steered the company through a constructive period of further development and everyone at TRICS Consortium Limited thanks Lynn for her much valued contribution, wishing her the very best for the future.

Ian has 33 years of full-time experience working on the TRICS project, and the Board very much look forward to working with him in building on Lynn's excellent work in taking the company forward.

TRICS Consortium Limited are delighted to confirm that we have a date and venue booked for our 27th annual TRICS User Meeting in Central London.

This event will be taking place at One Birdcage Walk in Westminster on Tuesday 26th November 2024. It is a great, unique, and versatile venue overlooking St James’ Park, which we are visiting for the second time, featuring a comfortable auditorium and a separate breakout room. As per previous events, bookings will be available on a first come first served basis, with each user office able to send one attendee free of charge, with a buffet lunch provided.

We already have a great programme lined up, which will include the following:

• Presenting ways in which users can expand their knowledge of TRICS and tips on making the most of the system.
• Explaining some essential key elements of the TRICS Good Practice Guide, which is of high importance to both those writing Transport Assessments and those tasked with auditing them.
• Providing the background of Decide & Provide, and how TRICS can be used in the most innovative way to help deliver Transport Assessments using this new approach.
• A look at ways in which TRICS is transforming its communications with its users, including via social media, video coverage and its new and improved TRICS website.
• A presentation on the application of Artificial Intelligence within Transport Planning, and how TRICS could benefit as we move deeper into the AI era.
• An update on two much-anticipated TRICS research projects, these being servicing and deliveries at residential apartments in London, and levels of construction traffic at TRICS SAM surveys undertaken between 2021 and 2023.
• A further guest presentation to be confirmed.

There will also be the opportunity to attend either a TRICS system demonstration in the breakout room or the TRICS Open Forum in the main auditorium in the final session of the day.

Registration on the day will commence at 0930, and the event will close at 1545.

We will be setting up our online booking system in late July/early August, and once this is running we will let everyone know. This event is expected to be popular, so when you do have the opportunity we advise you to book early to avoid any potential disappointment. Until then, please put Tuesday 26th of November 2024 in your calendar, and we look forward to welcoming the TRICS Community to our event, which promises to be a good day for everyone.

We are pleased to announce the release of our latest TRICS database update, version 7.11.2.

This new version of TRICS will include 93 new survey days, covering a variety of development types across different regions within the UK and Ireland.

We look forward to continuing to work with all members of the TRICS Community and to providing regular system updates.