# TRICS

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| name = TRICS
| screenshot = TRICS 7.7.1 screenshot.png
| caption = The TRICS interface
| developer = TRICS Consortium
| latest_release_version = 7.11.4
| latest_release_date = November 2024
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| genre = Traffic Software
| license = [Software license agreement](/source/Software_license_agreement)
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'''TRICS (Trip Rate Information Computer System)''' is a database of trip rates for [developments](/source/Real_estate_development) used in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) for transport planning purposes,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.trics.org/tricssystem.aspx | title=TRICS® the System | access-date=2015-06-26 | archive-date=2015-06-27 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627000341/http://www.trics.org/tricssystem.aspx | url-status=dead }}</ref> specifically to quantify the [trip generation](/source/trip_generation) of new developments.<ref>Transport for London, https://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/urban-planning-and-construction/travel-plans/monitoring-travel-plans</ref>

The TRICS Consortium describes TRICS as follows:
{{quotation |   
:''TRICS is the system that challenges and validates assumptions about the transport impacts of new developments. It is the national system of trip generation analysis, a large database of inbound & outbound transport surveys covering a wide variety of development types.''}}

==Release history==

The database was established in 1989<ref>West Sussex County Council, https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/information-for-developers/pre-application-advice-for-roads-and-transport/</ref> by six county councils in [South East England](/source/South_East_England) ([Dorset](/source/Dorset), [East Sussex](/source/East_Sussex), [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire), [Kent](/source/Kent), [Surrey](/source/Surrey) and [West Sussex](/source/West_Sussex)). It is now maintained by TRICS Consortium Ltd, based in [Barnet](/source/London_Borough_of_Barnet), London.

TRICS 7, a major update, was released in late 2013.

==Developments==
thumb|Developments such as supermarkets generate multi-modal trips. TRICS contains trip generation rates for different categories of development.

TRICS includes the following development categories:
#[Retail](/source/Retail)
#[Employment](/source/Employment)
#[Residential](/source/Housing)
#[Education](/source/School)
#[Health](/source/Healthcare)
#[Hotel, Food and Drink](/source/Hospitality_industry)
#[Leisure](/source/Leisure_industry)
#[Marina](/source/Marina)s
#[Golf](/source/Golf)
#[Tourist Attractions](/source/Tourism)
#[Civic Amenity Site](/source/Civic_Amenity_Site)s
#[Petrol Station](/source/Petrol_Station)s
#[Car Showrooms](/source/Car_dealership)

==SAM for Travel Plans==
TRICS have also developed SAM (Standard Assessment Methodology),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.trics.org/sam.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-06-26 |archive-date=2015-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626195620/http://www.trics.org/sam.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> a system to measure the effectiveness of [travel plan](/source/travel_plan)s.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.trics.org Official site]
*[https://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/planx_downloads/Transport_Assessment_Rev_D.pdf Example TRICS Output - application to Ribble Valley District Council]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Category:Transportation planning
Category:Databases in the United Kingdom

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