TRICS has recently undertaken a review of User Licence and Bureau Service fees and can now provide the revised prices for these services from the 1st of January 2025. These new prices are now displayed on our website alongside the corresponding current 2024 fees.

As in previous years, we are pleased to confirm our fees will be increasing at below the rate of inflation (as per the date when they were calculated). We are also pleased to confirm that we are scrapping the current £745 + VAT joining fee for new TRICS members. This has become possible due to recent improvements made to our administrative and licensing systems that have enhanced the efficiency of both.

TRICS remains committed to providing great value for money. In March 2025, the TRICS 8 redesign and upgrade will go live, and this major project, the biggest system upgrade that has ever been undertaken for TRICS, is being delivered at no extra cost to our users. It will bring TRICS into a new era of innovation and development, with improved efficiency, user-friendliness and design, and a host of new system features being introduced in September 2025 will add further value to the system. TRICS is also developing further to cement its place as the necessary evidence base for vision-led Transport Planning, with further details of this becoming available soon, and we continue to undertake research projects of importance to our users and to inform the Transport Planning industry. On top of this, we continue to add over 300 surveys to the database each year, covering a wide variety of development types across all regions of the UK and Ireland, and continue to deliver two User Events per year which are also free for our members to attend.

TRICS Consortium Limited are pleased to announce that Paul Castle Associates has become our latest TRICS-approved data collection contractor.

This long-established company brings decades of transport survey experience to our project, and the TRICS team look forward to working with Paul and Bert as we continue to add over 300 surveys to our database every year.

With our project moving into a new era of innovation and development, it is fantastic to have a wealth of high quality data collection contractors contributing towards this exciting future.

TRICS Consortium Limited are pleased to announce that Tina Nandha has today joined the company in the new post of Company Finance Officer.

This new and important role completes the restructuring of the TRICS team. Tina will be dealing with financial administration across the company and project and will liaise with the members of our Management Team on a day-to-day basis. As the newest member of our TRICS Community, Tina is looking forward to working with the team and with our clients and suppliers, as TRICS enters a new age of development and innovation.

TRICS Consortium Limited is very pleased to announce that a contract has been signed with UK company Smashed Crab Studio, to develop and deliver TRICS 8. Work on this exciting project will be commencing imminently.

This total redesign and upgrade across the system is a huge milestone in the ongoing evolution and improvement of TRICS. We have been highly impressed with the vision presented to us by Smashed Crab Studio, along with their excellent communications and enthusiasm, so we cannot wait to get to work with them.

TRICS 8 is being developed and released in two stages. The completion of Stage 1 is scheduled for March 2025, and will see the redesign of the existing TRICS system fully launched live for our users on a day-to-day basis. The new system will see the TRICS user experience enhanced and improved across the board in terms of system design, functionality and user-friendliness. As Stage 1 is developed, we look forward to providing our users with some sneak previews, whilst the development and ongoing testing takes place behind the scenes. This will be followed by Stage 2, which is scheduled for September 2025. This will include a host of new system features to add further value to the TRICS, and which will further enhance the user experience in a variety of ways.

We are also very pleased to let our users know that this development is taking place at no additional cost whatsoever to our member organisations. We will be working closely with Smashed Crab Studio throughout the development phases, and we cannot wait to launch this new system that will take TRICS in to a new and exciting era of innovation and development, with countless future possibilities for the future of our system on the horizon.

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.