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Professor Brian Caulfield

Professor In Transportation (Civil Struct & Env. Eng.)
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Prof Caulfield is a Professor in Transportation in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. Since joining the Department Prof Caulfield has embarked on an intensive research program addressing global issues such as the environmental impacts of transport and methods to reduce the carbon impacts of transport and in 2017 he addressed the Irish Citizens Assembly on this topic. He recently provided advice to the Climate Change Advisory Council on pathways to decreasing transport emissions by 2030. Prof Caulfield was a member of the Steering Group for the review and update of the GDA Transport Strategy with the National Transport Authority. Prof Caulfield has published over 200 papers in these areas in high impact international journals and international conferences and to date has been awarded aprox. €8 million in research funding (from EPA, SFI, FP7, CEDR, TII, DoT, RSA, SEAI and HORIZON Europe). He currently has 9 PhD students and 6 postdoctoral researchers in his research group. Prof Caulfield also a member of a number of National and International research groups and is the former Chair of the Irish Transportation Research Network and was a member of the executive committee of the Universities Transport Studies Group as well as several committees at the Transportation Research Board in Washington D.C. He is an Editor of Transport Policy (impact factor: 6.3) and an Associate Editor of Sustainable Cities and Society (Impact Factor: 10.5). He is a member of the International Editorial Board of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment (Impact Factor: 7.3), Case Studies on Transport Policy (Impact Factor: 2.4), Journal of Transport Geography (Impact Factor: 5.7) and the Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research.
  Cost Benefit Analysis   Cost Benefit Analysis   Discrete Choice Modelling   Discrete Choice Modelling   Driving simulation   Energy Ecomomics   Environmental aspects of transportation   Environmental Impacts of Transport   Environmental impacts of transport   Impacts of new public transport   Intelligent Transport Systems   Intelligent Vehicles   Intermodal Transport   New Means of Transport   Public Transport   Public Transport Infrastructure   Road Safety   Simulation and modelling transportation networks   Stated Preference Analysis   Stated preference analysis   Telecommunications and transport   Traffic Congestion   Transport   Transport Demand Management   Transport economics   Transport Economics   Transport Modelling   Transport Modelling   Transport policy
 ROBUST (Electric shaRed mOBility hUbS Trials)
 TRACT: TRAnsport Behaviour Change Trials
 Irish Car Stock Model (RATE)
 CONUNDRUM - Co-Creating sustainable and shared community mobility
 POWERDRIVE

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Member of the Royal Irish Academy committee on Climate Change and Environmental Sciences 2022 - 2027
Working Group Member: Innovative Mobility for the Periphery - OECD 2020-2021
Member of the Dublin Energy Transition Team (Dublin City Council/Codema) 2021-2022
Steering Committee Member: Review of the Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area, National Transport Authority 2021-2022
Editorial Board - Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research 2023 - to present
Steering Committee Member: Review of the Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area, National Transport Authority 2021-22
Editor - Transport Policy (Impact Factor: 6.173) 2022 - present
Senior Editor - Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (Impact Factor: 16.799) 2018 - present
Editorial Board - Journal of Transport Geography (Impact Factor: 5.899) 2019 - present
Editorial Board - Transport Policy (Impact Factor: 6.173) 2019 - 2022
Editorial Board - Case Studies on Transport Policy (Cite Score: 3.7) 2018 - present
Editorial Board - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment (Impact Factor: 7.041) 2017 - present
Member of the Executive Committee of the Universities' Transport Study Group (UTSG) 2015-2018
Chair of the Irish Transport Research Network 2013-2017
Member of the Transport Statistics Liaison Group (Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the Central Statistics office) 2010
Member of the TRB Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies (AP020) 2010 -2019
Irish member of the management committee of COST Action TU0804 'Survey Harmonisation with New Technologies Improvement' (SHANTI) 2009 -2011
Member of the The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport in Ireland Policy committee 2009 - 2011
Member of the EU-Smartcities working group - Mobility and Transport 2016
Member of the TRB Committee on Bicycle Transportation, ANF20 2012 - 2020
Member of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport Working Group on Intelligent Transport Systems 2015
Pramod Choudhari, T., Illahi, U., Al-Hosni, M., O'Mahony, M., Caulfield, B, Decarbonising Transport Sector by Electrifying Car-sharing Fleet in Ireland, 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Kelly, S., Gallagher, J., Charly, A., Caulfield, B. , Assessing Future Impacts on Non-Exhaust PM2.5 Emissions, 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Hosseini, K., Stefaniec, A., Charly, A. Papaphilippou, P., Caulfield, B., Decarbonising Ireland's Road Transport: A Network DEA-BWM Assessment Based on the Avoid-Shift-Improve Paradigm, IATBR - 17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Vienna, July, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Gaughan, M., Caulfield, B., Preferences for price reductions on public transport, 17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Vienna, July, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Richards, A., Convery, S., O'Mahony, M., Caulfield, B, Pre and post Covid preferences for working from home, Travel Behaviour and Society, 34, (100679), 2024, p1 - 8, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Stefaniec, A., Brazil, W., Whitney, W., Zhang, W., Colleary, B., Caulfield, B., Examining the long-term reduction in commuting emissions from working from home, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 127, (104063), 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Egan, R., Caulfield, B., There"s no such thing as cycle traffic: a critical discourse analysis of public opposition to pro-cycle planning, Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research, 2, (100014), 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Egan, R., Caulfield, B., Driving as essential, cycling as conditional: how automobility is politically sustained in discourses of everyday mobility, Mobilities, 19, (3), 2024, p789 - 805, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Hosseini, K., Stefaniec, A , O'Mahony, M., Caulfield, B, E-bike to the future: Scalability, emission-saving, and eco-efficiency assessment of shared electric mobility hubs, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 133, 2024, p104275 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Choudhari, T., Illahi, U., Al-Hosni, M., O'Mahony, M., Caulfield, B., Decarbonising Shared Mobility: The Potential of Shared Electric Vehicles, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 133, 2024, p104313 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
  

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Egan, R., Caulfield, B, Cycleway Opposition in DĂșn Laoghaire-Rathdown: Exploringthe Role of Discourse, Cycling and Society Symposium, Dublin, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Brazil, W., Whitaker, K., Colleary, B., Egan, R., Caulfield, B, Cycle propensity modelling: An extreme cycling uptake study, Cycling and Society Symposium, Dublin, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Caulfied, B, Launch of the OECD review of the Irish Transport System, Climate Change Advisory Council, Dublin, 5th October , 2022, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Caulfield, B., Transport Powers for a directly elected Dublin Mayor, Dublin Citizens Assembly, Grand Hotel, Malahide , 25th June, 2022, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Caulfield, B., Transport Powers for a directly elected Dublin Mayor, Dublin Citizens Assembly, Radisson Blu, Golden Lane, 10th September, 2022, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Caulfield, B, Rapidly decreasing transport emissions - Key Note, Euro-Global Climate Change Conference 2022, Paris, 13th September, 2022, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Caulfield, B, Innovative transport data collection methods, Invited Lecture,, Guest Lecture, KTH Stockholm, 18th October, 2022, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Caulfield, B., Reducing emissions in our cities, Kilkenny City SUMP, Kilkenny, 30th September, 2022, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Caulfield, B. , Decreasing transport emissions in our cities, Renewables in Ireland Conference 2022, Cork, 9th November, 2022, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Oeschger, G., Carroll, P., Caulfield, B. , First/last mile to public transport & mode choice, 53rd UTSG, Loughborugh University, 2021, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

  

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Award Date
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2020
The Michael Beesley Award, honourable mention August, 2007
ITRN Best paper - Determining the welfare effects of introducing a cap‐and‐share scheme on rural commuters September 2011
ITRN Best paper- Impact of emissions information on mode choices in Dublin: Stated Preference experiments September 2013
ITRN Best paper - Encouraging sustainable commuting behaviour through smart policy provision 2017
Education & Public Engagement Champion - CONNECT 2021
Sustainability Leadership Award 2023: Awarded by Trinity College Dublin for Excellence in Research, Education and Engagement 2023