\begin{abstract}


This document will describe the upgrade strategy of the ALICE Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) for the period after the LHC long shutdown2 (LS2) in 2018/2019.

The document will be the TRD contribution to the ALICE upgrade Technical Design Report for the detectors that will not upgrade to a continuous readout.

For the TRD TDR, the following aspects will be discussed:

\begin{itemize}
\item detector capability to operate under the running conditions and interaction rates after LS2
\item description of a modified data format to decrease the deadtime of the FEE readout
\item investigations on the offline performance with the new data format without full raw data information
\item concept of a new readout interface to the DAQ system able to handle the increased data volume 
\item experiences and extrapolations with aging of detector and electronics
\end{itemize}

\end{abstract}
