Projects represent the highest organizational tier in TRACE. While a TRACE server may have multiple projects on it for use by many different project staff, the information that TRACE stores and relates to is project-specific and maintained at the project level.

When multiple projects exist on the same TRACE server, each project works independently of other projects. To access a project, personnel require a user account and role assigned by a project administrator. TRACE administrator rights are required to create a new project.