The Traffic Research Group TRG is formed by researchers at the Department of Development and Planning at Aalborg University in Denmark. We have performed both theoretical and empirical research in the field of infrastructure, transportation and traffic in a number of years. We educate candidates at Master level and enable them to work with the problems of traffic and transportation in society, and participate in the education of researchers at Ph.D and post doc level. The TRG and the IVTB at Denmarks Technical University are the two major institutions of higher education in the field of traffic and transport in Denmark.
Our research reflects the problems traffic and transportation impose on society. It covers a wide span from the planning process and the design and construction of the infrastructure, through solving the problems created by traffic (e.g. accidents and degredation of the environment) by the use of technical and planning measures, to the appraisal of the final result and evaluation of the processes leading to it.
A common feature of many of the projects performed at the TRG is a tight connection to real life problems established through cooperation with practicians being consultancy companies or national or local authorities. The aim is to increase the knowledge of traffic and transport allowing the design of better solutions to the problems emerging from the need for physical movement of goods and passengers. Both within and outside the urban areas.
The main part of our research is focused on road transport and the variety of modes using the road infrastructure. In the recent years projects covering bicycles, public transport and private cars have been made. The emerging interest in waterway transport within the EU due to the problems of creating sufficient capacity on the roads for the increasing freight movements has also manifested itself in the work of the TRG.
The Traffic Research Group is in the autumn 1994 made out by the following persons: