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The
National Transportation Research Center
is a window to transportation research programs at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory and the University of Tennessee. It offers one of the
most diverse concentrations of transportation researchers in the
United States.
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NTRC held its official “Open House”
on May 6-7, 2002, in collaboration with a transportation manufacturers
workshop hosted by the High Temperature Materials Laboratory. |
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Center is an alliance among ORNL, UT, the U.S. Department of Energy,
UT-Battelle, LLC., NTRC, Inc., and the Development Corporation of
Knox County. UT has one of the oldest university-based transportation
R&D; centers in the country, and ORNL has the largest multidisciplinary
collection of transportation researchers among the DOE national laboratories. |
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center is located between Knoxville and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, about
halfway between ORNL and UT-Knoxville. Approximately 200 staff from
ORNL and UT are located at the NTRC facility. The NTRC building contains
about 83,000 sq. ft. of space, about two-thirds of it dedicated to
research laboratories that support some of the most advanced transportation
research in the world. |
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The
purpose of NTRC is to work on national and regional transportation
issues and develop and evaluate advanced transportation systems.
Projects fall into four broad categories:
- Energy
efficiency
- Environment
- Information
systems and logistics
- Transportation
safety
Private
businesses, public agencies, and universities can work with NTRC
through a variety of partnership mechanisms. For more information
on working with NTRC, see Partnering with
Us.
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