• 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.
  • 2022 ACRISS updated its Environmental page with a new CO2 Emissions guideline based on CO2 emissions average by category.    This is a precursor to our new traffic light system of low to high emissions using a traffic light colour coding.
  • 2022  Review and update to EV coding in the ACRISS Car Classification system "E" and "C" 4th character fuel type, supporting electrification and ensuring codes are future proofed.    Update to "Optional Extras, Special Equipment and Ancillaries codes list including new equipment code needed for electric vehicles.
  • 2023  New Traffic Light CO2 Emissions Efficiency Guide coding exising CO2 emissions data into categories A+ to F for emissions from Green for zero emissions to Red for high polluting cars making it easier to identify greener cars.