- 1989 Formed by Avis, Budget, Europcar and Hertz to develop and maintain system standards in the car rental industry
- 1992 Reconstituted as an European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG)
- 1992 ACRISS formulates its Code of Conduct Revised -1995 and 2001
- 1994 Co-operation with GEBTA (Guild of European Business Travel Agents) commences
- 1995 Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan join ACRISS as Associates
- 1996 Co-operation with IATA (International Air
Transport Association) commences with specific interest in TIDS American
Express Travel Services join ACRISS as Associates
- 1998 National Car Rental joins as ACRISS Associate
- 2000 ANC Rental Corporation (National and Alamo) join as full Member
- 2001 Launch first website. Carlson Wagon Lit Travel join as Associate
- 2002 HEDNA & ACRISS move to reciprocal Membership
- 2003 New Membership scheme developed, Selling Guide developed, e-ticket for CARS standard agreed
- 2004 Enterprise Car Rental join as Associate Member, Sabre Travel Network rejoin as Allied Associate
- 2005 Obtains European Trade Mark, identifies the need for car code matrix expansion
- 2006 Airport location definitions expansion
- 2007 Car Code Expansion replaces SIPP
- 2008 QA Locations Project commences, Green Car consideration starts
- 2009 MicronNexus joins as Associate, Vehicle Guide produced in major languages, new website launched
- 2010 Rail Station project
- 2011 Cargo Van classification
- 2012 Expanded Special Equipment codes
- 2013 Review and introduction of Ancillary Charges
- 2014 Luggage capacity included in car codes
- 2014 Testing of new Image cloud project
- 2016 VDSI "Transfers" project launched with the implementation of new standards/services for the Transfer industry, Blacklane joined as first VDSI Allied Associate member
- 2017 Image Cloud project released with Travelport as first partner
- 2017 Taxitender, Karhoo and MyCab joined as new VDSI Allied Associate members
- 2017 Reciprocal membership agreement with BVRLA and LeaseEurope
- 2018 Rentalcars joined as our first car rental broker followed by Groundscope as our Transfer technology associate
- 2019 Green Motion joined as our first car rental associate.
- 2019 Image Cloud Validation tool released ensuring our members are compliant with the ACRISS car codes
- 2019 New Code of Conduct released.
- 2019 New definition for electric and hybrid cars in the car classiciation system including new electric/hybrid page
- 2019 New VDSI Selling Guide and updates to Vehicle Selling Guides
- 2020 Reciprocal agreement with GGTI (Global Ground Transportation Institute)
- 2020 Introduction of new EV distances, C02 standards and Fuel type columns in the car code lists
- 2020 New Covid-19 reference page covering ACRISS response to the pandemic along with links to members and associates website.
- 2020 New Commercial Van/Truck guidelines to replace out of date guidelines in tonnes. New guidelines provides cubic metre capacity range and features instead.
- 2020 New Electric and Hybrid definitions/descriptions for existing codes "E,C,H and I" 4th letter code in ACRISS Car Classification system (Matrix) to help with the different variations of EV and Hybrid cars (plug-in)
- 2020 New VDSI Transfers Health and Safety Standards in response to new global and local regulations and requirements putting customers and staff safety first.
- 2021 ACRISS converted to a UK Economic Interest Group (UKEIG) following end of Brexit transition period. New updated Constitution reflects this change and some other minor updates in line with current up to date requirements.
- 2021 ACRISS and its members proposed, developed and agreed to an online car rental check-in feature enabling car rental companies to improve the process, reduce time and limit time at the counter with health and safety of both the customer and staff in mind.
