Transport Research Forum (TRF) is an annual conference organised 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 in this event. Representatives from the industry and related government institutions are also invited every year.
Department of Civil Engineering conducted the first-ever Sri Lanka Transportation Forum in 1983 and since the late 90’s the Transportation Engineering Group have organised many Transport Research Conferences at local and international level. Later, the Transport Research Forum (TRF) was established and two conferences were held initially. Since 2010 TRF has been held consecutively every year. Therefore, TRF 2023 is the 16th 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 to the industry. In the year 2020, TRF achieved a great milestone by publishing its selected proceedings (full papers from selected studies presented at TRF 2020) in the IESL ‘The Engineer’ journal as a special edition.