Structure
The Association for European Transport was founded in 1998 as a non profit making organisation open to anyone wishing to advance transport planning through discussion and debate amongst professionals. Its members include both individuals and organisations.
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It is controlled by a 24 member elected Council, in which 12 council members represent individual AET members and 12 members represent organisations. One third of the Council is re-elected each year.
Download the AET Council Election Rules
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At the 2009 General Assembly, members agreed to make changes to the Statutes and, therefore, to the election rules. There are no longer two separate constiuencies - all 24 Council members will, from October 2010, be elected regardless of their status as Individual or Organisation members. Documents explaining the changes can be downloaded:
(Note_on_Statutes_changes.pdf.pdf)
(Election_Rules_for_the_Council.pdf.pdf)
The Council in turn appoints an up to seven person Board of AET members (unpaid) to manage the day-to-day affairs of the organisation. The Board is assisted by a small Secretariat (paid) which operates on the basis of a three year management contract. The Secretariat is currently provided by PTRC Education and Research Services Ltd.
One of the principal activities of AET is the planning of annual European Transport Conferences (ETCs), the successor to the Summer Annual Meetings which were begun by PTRC more than 30 years ago. The organisation of these Conferences is heavily dependent on Programme Committees, voluntary groups of AET members who are specialists in a particular field of transport
The Programme Committees are responsible for the technical content and social life of the Conferences. Commercial and organisational matters are dealt with by an Executive Board (ExBo) comprising two members of the AET Board and two representatives of PTRC.
