Institut national de recherche sur les transports et leur sécurité

INRETS research roadmap includes the following areas:

• Safety of people transportation systems
  • Health and road safety (epidemiology, accident, biomechanics, psychology and sociology of human behavior)
  • Public policies on risk
  • Technology and human factors: human-machine cooperation
• Innovative transportation systems
  • Mobility of people, lifestyles, territories (analysis of mobility, acceptability and conditions change, networks and regional planning)
  • Goods transportation
  • Traffic management systems and network optimisation methods
• Reliability and sustainability of transport systems, optimisation of energy consumption, reduction of environmental impact
  • Safety and efficiency of transport; guided transportation systems
  • Communication, navigation and surveillance, diagnosis and maintenance
  • Evaluation and reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants
  • Evaluation and reduction of transport noise – multi-nuisance analysis

The INRETS research institute is organised as a French Scientific and Technical Research Public Establishment and includes the following sites:

• Bron (Lyon)
• Marne-la-Vallée
• Marseille
• Salon-de-Provence
• Satory
• Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Lille)

• INRETS-Villeneuve-d'Ascq is associated to the research on transportation systems as a member of the PRES Université Lille Nord de France, with research contribution from École centrale de Lille, ENSIAME and University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis.
• INRETS-Marne-la-Vallée is associated to research on transportation systems with support from École nationale des ponts et chaussées.