AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES OF A TRIPS SPECIALIST CENTRE OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH

  en TRIPS and the international academic community". Discussions between the two organisations culminated in TRG's formal submission early in 1997 to MVA Systematica of a proposal to become the first SPECTRE. The proposal, representing a series of options and opportunities rather than a binding set of commitments for both parties, was accepted.

To derive mutual benefit from the association each party assumes a number of responsibilities. The TRG undertakes to:

• integrate TRIPS into its teaching programme at undergraduate and postgraduate level,

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provide MSc students with hands-on use and application of TRIPS,

encourage and provide the opportunity for TRIPS related MSc projects to be completed,

identify and generate mutually interesting and beneficial research, and

raise the profile of TRIPS within the academic community.

To support this MVA Systematica undertakes to:

• provide the educational TRIPS software package and user manuals free of charge,
• allow TRG staff and students to attend TRIPS training courses free of charge where such training will directly contribute to the use and application of TRIPS,
• make TRIPS team staff available to contribute to the teaching programme,
• provide technical support and advice to the TRG, and
• identify, recommend or advise on suitable avenues of research.

These responsibilities set a broad framework within which the SPECTRE can begin to function and evolve.

 TRIPS IN TEACHING

TRIPS formed an integral part of the revised transportation planning module in the 1996/97 MSc Course. During the first semester the module now concentrates on a series of lectures covering the theory and principles of topics in transportation planning including transport modelling. The written examination for the module then follows. During t

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