TRL Email Format
Research ServicesEngland, United Kingdom501-1000 Employees
TRL is a transport research services organization that collaborates with clients and partners to advance safe, clean, and efficient mobility. It publishes software that helps cities reduce pollution, carbon footprint, and congestion by improving traffic management, road design, asset management, and safety data analysis. The company also provides consultancy and advisory services based on research into infrastructure, vehicles, and human behavior, and conducts high-value field work such as incident investigations and structural surveys to enhance service quality. Based in Wokingham, England, with offices in London and India, TRL serves a global client base of more than a thousand across many countries. It traces its origins to 1933 as the UK government's Road Research Laboratory, later privatized in 1996, and now operates as a private sector research and advisory organization in transport. The company collaborates with universities and industry partners to fund basic and applied research and co-founded the Smart Mobility Living Lab in London, a mixed physical and virtual testbed that enables testing of mobility products on live public roads.