Transport Research Forum (TRF) is an annual conference organized by the Transportation Engineering Division of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa. The prime objective of this conference is to create a platform for researchers in the transportation field to build up their research careers and to share their research findings with other colleagues and the industry. Practitioners, researchers, and academics, including a number of international experts in the areas of Highway Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Planning, are the participants for this event. In addition, representatives from the industry and the related government institutions are also invited every year.
Department of Civil Engineering conducted the first-ever Sri Lanka Transportation Forum in 1983. Since the late 90’s the Transportation Engineering Group has organized many Transport Research Conferences at the local and international level. Later, the Transport Research Forum (TRF) was established and two conferences were held initially and since 2010 TRF was held consecutively every year. TRF 2020 is the 13th Transportation Research Forum conducted by the Transportation Engineering Division. Many of the research findings presented in Transport Research Forums have been put into practice and one of the main objectives of Transport Research Forum is to come up with solutions to address transport-related problems in the country and disseminate them to the industry.
This year, TRF has achieved a great milestone by publishing its selected proceedings (full papers from selected studies presented at TRF 2020) in ‘The Engineer’ journal as a special edition. The Engineer is a primer journal published by the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL), the multidisciplinary professional engineering institution in Sri Lanka.
Link to the Special Issue of the Journal:
https://uom.lk/sites/default/files/civil/files/IESL%20Journal-Special%20Issue%20for%20TRF%202020_6.pdf
