IFSTTAR

IFSTTAR – INSTITUT FRANCAIS DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DES TRANSPORTS, DE L’AMENAGEMENT ET DES RESEAUX / FRENCH

INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR TRANSPORT, DEVELOPMENT AND NETWORKS

www.ifsttar.fr

IFSTTAR, is a player in the European research on the city and the territories, transportation and civil engineering, born in 2011 from the merger of INRETS and LCPC, is a Public Institution of a Scientific and Technical Nature, under the joint supervision of the ministry of ecology, sustainable development and energy and the ministry of higher education and research.

IFSTTAR’s role is to carry out development and innovation in the areas of urban engineering, civil engineering, and construction materials, natural hazards, the transportation of persons and goods, systems and means of transport and their safety, infrastructure, and investigate their uses and impacts from the technical, economic, social, health, energy, environmental and human points of view.

The Institute’s principal aims:

• To carry fundamental and applied research, perform methodological studies and develop tests and prototypes
• To conduct all types of expert appraisals and advisory work
• To implement a scientific and technical information policy and disseminate the knowledge, through publications, technical regulations and standards
• To pursue a policy to exploit the results of its scientific and technological research, by means of technical support, technology transfer and certification tests
• To play a role in training by and for research and both vocational and in-service training
• To help to export its expertise and the techniques it develops and gain better international exposure for them