The Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) was established more than twenty-five years ago. In 1976 the North Carolina General Assembly (Session Laws 1975, Second Session, Chapter 983, Section 57) authorized the University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors to establish a Council on Transportation Research and Education to accomplish several tasks:
- To create a management structure to coordinate and merge the highway safety programs of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center and the National Driving Center, Inc.
- To represent all interests within the University of North Carolina in transportation research and education; and
- To establish the Institute for Transportation Research and Education to facilitate the development of a broad range of transportation research and education programs involving organizations within the University which have related programs.
The Charter for ITRE was approved by the Council for Transportation Research and Education on October 13, 1977 and by the Board of Governors on February 12, 1978 (ITRE's official start date within the University of North Carolina). It was subsequently modified May 23, 1995. The Council serves as the advisory body to review ITRE's programs.
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