TRICS Consortium Limited is pleased to announce that there are now unlimited free attendee places available at our 2024 TRICS Training & Development Forum, which is taking place at The Caves in Edinburgh on Tuesday 18th June.

This means that TRICS user organisations can now send multiple attendees from each office, and non-TRICS member organisations who are interested in becoming part of the TRICS Community can also attend the event free of charge. As before, all places are subject to availability, and are booked on a first come, first served basis. For further information and to make a booking, please visit the Training & Development Forum pages on our website at: TRICS Training & Development Forum 2024

We look forward to meeting with you at this popular annual regional event.

The deadline for new TRICS SAM survey commissions for surveys taking place in the current Spring 2024 window has now passed (as of noon on 12th April 2024). Therefore, any new requests for SAM surveys will need to be for surveys taking place in the Autumn 2024 window, which runs from mid-September (once the schools have returned) until the end of November. Should there be Autumn surveys required please contact the TRICS team and these can be set up in our system.

TRICS Consortium Limited are pleased to announce that the sixth annual TRICS Training & Development Forum is to be held on Tuesday 18th June 2024, at The Caves in Edinburgh. You can now book your free place online here:

TRICS Training & Development Forum 2024

Once again, this event is free to member organisations (one attendee per member office), on a first come first served basis (places are limited). Additional places are charged at the rate of £190 + VAT, which is the same charge for non-TRICS members who wish to attend with a view to becoming TRICS members.

Unlike our annual TRICS User Meeting, which covers various elements of TRICS across a broader, project-wide perspective, the Training & Development Forum (TDF) is more focused on day-to-day use and applications of TRICS as well as the system’s development, where attendees can pick up hints and tips on the use of TRICS and contribute ideas towards further developing the system. This is very much an event for regular users of the system as well as those that might be new to it, and we are pleased to continue touring around various parts of the UK with the TDF, whilst keeping the annual User Meeting based in London. The TDF is also another excellent opportunity to network with members of the TRICS community, attendees being system users from both private and public sector organisations. These events have always been productive yet informal and have in the past led to significant changes to the system via our interactive approach, where everyone gets to have their own say on the future of TRICS.

By visiting the link above you can find out about the event’s programme and the venue, along with access to our booking system. We have put together a programme which we feel will suit all attendees, covering a variety of system and data related topics. The event includes a free buffet lunch, so there will be plenty of time to meet and discuss all matters TRICS with other attendees from around the UK and Ireland.

We look forward to seeing you at this year’s event.

TRICS Consortium Ltd are pleased to confirm the next update of TRICS, version 7.11.1, will go live on Friday 29th March 2024.

TRICS 7.11.1 will include a range of new surveys and the TRICS team look forward to delivering this update as we continue to improve and enhance our system and its data with the input and assistance of everyone in the TRICS community

TRICS Consortium Limited invites all user organisations to participate in our annual TRICS User Survey, which is now live. To access the survey, which should only take a short time, please go to the following link.

2024 TRICS User Survey

As users of TRICS, your opinions are of great value to us. Our annual survey is much more than just a marketing exercise – you can have your direct say in the future of TRICS, its data collection programme, system development and associated projects. It is a very important time for us here at TRICS, as we start to design and implement a major system re-write, TRICS 8. We are also involved in a variety of other projects, so now, more than ever, we need to hear what you have to say about our system, as we strive to improve it in every way that we can.

Over the years, many ideas in response to our user surveys have become actual system improvements, and we want this to continue. We aim to ensure that the whole experience of using TRICS is hassle-free, with an intuitive and user-friendly system that makes your job easier. The best way to do this is through engaging with the TRICS Community, consisting of over 370 organisations across all parts of the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is this truly inclusive and interactive way that has seen the system evolve over three decades and will see it continue to improve and develop through years to come. So please get involved and have your say in the future of TRICS today.

We look forward to receiving your comments and ideas. Thank you for your time, it is greatly appreciated.

TRICS Consortium Limited are pleased to announce that we are now offering Travel Plan Monitoring Reports as an optional extra to clients who commission Standardised Assessment Methodology (SAM) surveys.

TPMR's are a very quick and handy way of presenting information on a site's travel plan and its multi-modal survey results, and include automated explanatory commentary that is designed to be understandable by those who may not be directly familiar with the workings of TRICS. SAM survey clients are now able to state their trip generation and mode split criteria for inclusion in the reports (i.e. start and end times, direction and mode type), with the reports being generated and supplied by TRICS as separate PDF documents. A bonus of TPMR's is that they can also include any previous surveys at the same development for comparative purposes.

Once a SAM survey is validated it can take up to three months for it to become available in one of our quarterly TRICS database updates, so including a TPMR along with the finalised survey outputs would mean that clients obtain these reports before they could be produced by any other party using the TRICS system.

The option for inclusion of TMPR's as part of SAM survey commissions (costing £212 + VAT for each report) has now been added to our survey agreements. If anyone would like further information please contact a member of the TRICS team.