The UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC)[1] was established in January 2011.
[3] During its first research programme, running from 2011 to 2016,[4] ITRC developed the world's first national infrastructure system-of-systems model, known as NISMOD (National Infrastructure Systems Model)[5] which has been used to analyse long-term investment strategies for energy, transport, digital communications, water, waste water and solid waste.
The second phase of this programme (2016–2021) is called ITRC-MISTRAL where MISTRAL stands for Multi-Scale Infrastructure Systems Analytics.
Based in the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute,[8] ITRC is led by Director Jim Hall who is also Professor of Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford.
[12] They include infrastructure investors such as the World Bank, consultancies including Ordnance Survey and KPMG, providers such as Siemens, High Speed 2 (HS2), Network Rail and National Grid, policy-makers (i.e.