TRL’s Bob Collis appointed an Executive Director of FEHRL

Date: 25/1/2013

TRL's Director of Infrastructure Bob Collis, has been appointed an Executive Director of FEHRL (Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories), based in Brussels. This international association comprises 30 national research and technical institutes from across Europe, with links to non-European countries. FEHRL's mission is to promote and facilitate collaboration on road research and provide high quality information and advice on technologies and policies related to roads.

Bob is responsible for developing the Forever Open Road roadmap for research and development that forms the core to FEHRL's Fifth Strategic Road Research Programme. This visionary concept started life at TRL, and is aimed at developing the next generation of roads, enabling them to be adaptable, automated and climate change resilient; a concept that could be applied to existing and new roads, regardless of geographical location or type.

Bob Collis has worked in the civil engineering industry for over 35 years; with the last fifteen with TRL. He currently chairs the HA/QPA/MPA collaborative research programme for asphalt roads and is also a member of the World Road Association's UK Executive Committee. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (FCILT) and Member of the Institution of Highways and Transportation (MIHT).

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