Professor Margaret O'Mahony

Professor Margaret O'Mahony holds the Chair of Civil Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Her qualifications include a degree in civil engineering from NUI (Galway) and a doctorate in engineering science from the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of Engineers Ireland (Chartered Engineer), a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineers. She has served as Head of the Engineering School, Head of the Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering and Bursar at TCD. As Director of the Centre for Transport Research, she has coordinated or worked as Principal Investigator on a large number of research contracts funded by the EU and national research agencies. She has been a member of a number of the Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Science) committees in the US. In addition to her academic contributions, she has served on the Board of the Railway Procurement Agency and the National Roads Authority (now both merged to form Transport Infrastructure Ireland). Her current research interests include: innovations in public transport and road infrastructure, optimising transport networks, electric vehicles, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, health impacts of transport pollutants and security in transport networks and hubs.

  autonomous vehicles   Civil Engineering, Pavements and Structures   Congestion Charging   ENERGY   Energy and Climate Change   Energy Efficiency   Energy Engineering   Energy Utilization   Environmental aspects of transportation   Environmental Impacts of Transport   Highway engineering   Impacts of new public transport   Intelligent Vehicles   Intermodal Transport   New Means of Transport   Noise pollution, technology   Public Transport   Renewable energy   Road Design   Road Transport Technology   Simulation and modelling transportation networks   Telecommunications and transport   Traffic Congestion   Transport   Transport policy   Transport psychology and safety   Transport Technology, Engineering   Transportation, Energy Use

Transport engineering, city networks, energy, highway engineering, transport network modelling, public transport, environmental impacts of transport, external costs of transport, traffic demand management.