ITRC

Whilst developing the original ITRC Programme Grant proposal we held discussions with more than forty partners in industry, government and professional institutions who joined us on the journey to develop a new system-of-systems approach to modelling and managing national infrastructure. We created an international advisory board combining leading infrastructure practitioners from the UK together with academics from around the world. Professor Tim Broyd was the first chair of the board, who was succeeded by Colin Harris. The aim of ITRC was to develop and demonstrate a new generation of simulation models and tools to inform the analysis, planning and design of national infrastructure. Our ambition was to enable a revolution in the strategic analysis of national infrastructure provision in the UK, whilst at the same time becoming an international landmark programme recognised for novelty, research excellence and impact. The application to EPSRC was successful and the ITRC was awarded..

Primary location: Oxford United Kingdom