The organization was the result of the October 1944 Conference on European Inland Transport in London. The conference was attended by delegations representing Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, the Netherlands, Norway, USSR, UK, USA and Yugoslavia (or their governments-in-exile) together with observers from Denmark, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), those from Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean (SACMED), and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), and was chaired by Lord Noel-Baker.
