National Transportation Research Center (NTRC)

The NTRC is a US Department of Energy National User Facility, meaning that its laboratories and equipment are available to qualified users from the public and private sectors. It is managed by ORNL and UT. It offers one of the largest concentrations of transportation researchers in the United States, housing research and development programs from ORNL and UT. Completed in the fall of 2000, the NTRC contains 83,000 square feet of space, two-thirds of which is dedicated to 10 research laboratories, with the remainder providing office and meeting space for about two hundred staff from ORNL and UT. It is an alliance between ORNL; UT; the US Department of Energy; UT-Battelle, LLC; NTRC Inc., a 501(c)(3) entity chartered in June 1999; and the Development Corporation of Knox County.