Research
Transport and Infrastructure
The research of the Transport and Infrastructure team contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the road transport system, including in particular road infrastructure and the development of systems for transport in ways that are economically efficient and environmentally effective. In addition this supports the development of models, technologies and policies that address the challenge of modal shift from cars to other less environmentally demanding modes and creates a platform for innovation led enterprise.
The main research areas include:
- Testing of road infrastructure to asses capacity to absorb lower carbon freight systems
- Use of dynamic response measurements to assess the performance characteristics of structures
- Testing of low carbon materials
- Development and application of land use and modal share models that examine carbon, economic and other implications of alternative settlement patterns
- Understanding the link between transport infrastructure, land use change and energy and climate change
- Future road transport
- Structural health monitoring: evaluating the effect of environmental factors on the frequencies of vibration
- Sustainable road pavements
- Weathering processes and the sustainability of the built environment in a changing climate
- Technology to assess the stability of materials in the built environment and the development of mineral based weathering geosensors
- Transportation, materials and energy utilisation
- Regulation of urban land use
- Climate change and modal shift
Related Schools in UCD
- UCD School of Architecture
- UCD School of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
- UCD School of Electrical, Electronic & Communications Engineering
- UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
- UCD School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy
- UCD School of Geological Sciences