The M7 Newbridge Bypass scheme consisted of the construction of 12 kilometres of motorway between the M7 Naas Bypass and the dual carriageway across the Curragh Plains. The scheme provided congestion relief for Newbridge town, which was experiencing traffic flows of over 30,000 vehicles per day due to its location on the Dublin to Cork and Limerick routes. The scheme was also supported by the European Social Development Fund to enhance access to Ireland within Europe. The selection of a ...

With millions of daily commuters in the United States, and nearly 80 per cent of them driving alone to work each day, suburbanites and city dwellers may soon have a new alternative to get them out from behind the steering wheel. Bill Diong, associate professor of electrical engineering, Ying Wang, associate professor of mechatronics engineering, and Jidong Yang, assistant professor of civil engineering -- all faculty in Kennesaw State University's Southern Polytechnic College of ...

Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) was first recorded growing wild in the south of Ireland in 1902 (1) and it has since spread across the country, particularly along watercourses, transport corridors and on waste ground. Today, Japanese knotweed and related knotweed species are categorised into a group of unwanted plants known as invasive alien plant species (IAPS). Such plants are generally defined as those that are introduced outside their natural range whose presence and/or spread ...

Travel behaviour change research being conducted at Trinity College Dublin investigating techniques of encouraging sustainable travel in the Greater Dublin Area. Emissions produced from transport in Ireland, like in many other European countries, is a subject of mounting importance. This has sparked some states to employ radical measures to reverse harmful trends in emissions rising. In the European Union, transport alone has been found to account for 25% of all emissions emitted, on ...

Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has a total network length of c.5300km, made up of roads of varying standards, from high speed, three-lane motorways to lightly trafficked, narrow, single-carriageway roads. The development process for many pavements has been evolutionary, rather than designed or planned. Historically, TII pavement management practices included collection of pavement condition data, processing and presentation of that data and liaison with local authorities to ...

Environmental specifications for transport fuels in the EU are set out in the 1998 fuel quality directive (FQD) (98/70/EC). A 2009 directive (2009/30/EC) amended the original FQD and introduced a target for fuel suppliers to reduce life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) emissions from transport fuels by the end of 2020. However, several member states, including Ireland, have yet to transpose this amending directive. The transposition deadline is April 2017. This article examines the ...