The Centre for Transport Research and Innovation for People (TRIP) is a multidisciplinary centre, funded by the HEA PRTLI Programme.  The Centre is based at TCD and has a link with UCC.  The aim of the Centre is to develop and deliver cohesive and dynamic interdisciplinary research on a range of topics including ICT in transport, solving urban congestion, quality of life, safety and the environmental impacts of transport.  Generally speaking the research projects of the Centre involve input from at least two disciplines and this is a fundamental principle on which the Centre works.  Those disciplines typically include civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer science, geography, economics, psychology and social science.

The latest large project on which the Centre is working, funded by HEA PRLTI 4, is the delivery of a PhD Graduate Programme in the Environment integrated with a number of other institutions.  This project, entitled Environment and Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, is led by NUIG and also involves UCC, CIT, Met Eireann, NUIM, QUB, UL and the Finnish Centre of Excellence.