The Roads and Transportation society is for engineers with an interest in road and rail design, transport planning and traffic engineering.
The Active Travel Series shares knowledge on the planning, design and delivery of walking and cycling schemes. The free-to-attend webinars are delivered by the National Transport Authority in collaboration with the Engineers Ireland Roads and Transportation Society. Learn more here.
The traditional approach to road pavement design can be traced back to the 1950s in the UK and relied heavily on empirical practice; it was acknowledged at that time that a pavement structure is difficult to model theoretically and incorporates materials with complex mechanical properties, write TII's Tom Casey and Eddie Winterlich.
Recently Hertz ordered 100,000 electric cars, with an option to order 100,000 more, writes Eamon Stack. This first order is 25% of its fleet. Imagine all the tourists in rented electric cars heading to tourist hotspots in Ireland; where are they going to charge – on the way or while touring? And will there be tension between tourists and locals over the infrastructure?
John Loudon McAdam was a pioneering Scottish engineer who almost single-handedly changed the way roads were built around the world. His innovative shallow camber, crushed, compacted stone layered roads would become the standard for road building throughout the world.
The N4 Collooney to Castlebaldwin is a 14.7km highway project, developed to replace the existing substandard single carriageway. This case study focuses on the use of two drainage solutions adopted as part of the project that reduced the cost of construction and mitigated the impacts of the project on the environment.
Wise Systems has grown from a class project to a company helping multinationals improve last-mile logistics.
Convert, don't replace, your old friend with Swytch's eBike practical kit.
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