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.
Can we really capture CO2 from the air?
Researchers find novel tools can improve the sustainability of road networks on a limited budget.
Electric trucks require heavier batteries than e-cars and have a limited long-distance range, writes former Engineers Ireland president Chris Horn.
Health expectations mean days of packed public transport appear numbered, writes former Engineers Ireland president Dr Chris Horn.
Rail transportation is core to Europe’s plans to become carbon neutral by 2050, but noisy trains are an obstacle that will need to be first overcome.
In desert regions and sandy coastal areas, windblown sand can bury infrastructure such as railways, and cause problems such as train derailment, grinding down rails or wheels and wearing down coatings on the nose of high-speed locomotives. But knowing how best to protect tracks and trains from sand is tricky because there has been no reliable way of predicting how sand will behave – until now.
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