What is TTRCC?

TTRCC brings together multi-disciplinary scholars with business, labor, and community partners to explore and advance innovative transportation systems and solutions that can help transform Michigan's economy and communities

In light of recent challenges and shifts in the U.S. automotive industry, Michigan's research universities have unique opportunities, expertise and responsibilities to explore questions related to the transformation of Michigan’s economy. TTRCC's goal is to provide the state and the wider region with research-based insights into transportation's key role in the profound economic and social challenges – and transformative opportunities – of our times.

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Summit on Transforming Transportation: Economies & Communities

April 7-9, 2011

In April 2011, business and labor leaders, policymakers, innovators, and research scholars from the U.S. and abroad convened in Detroit. Their mission was to advance knowledge, systems, and solutions that can transform the future of transportation and revitalize economies and communities in Michigan and beyond. The program combined high level plenary sessions with focused, collaborative working sessions, an open poster session, and many opportunities for sharing work. Among other outcomes, participants contributed to the development of a research and action agenda on Transforming Transportation.