ITRN2011 Proceedings
Conference Programme and Proceedings
SESSION A1 – ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES
- A Life-cycle Technical Assessment of Biofuel Options for Ireland
- A Well-to-wheel Analysis of Electric Vehicles and Greenhouse Gas Savings
- A Technical & Economic Appraisal of Biomethane as a Transport Fuel for Small to Medium Scale Development from Resources Indigenous to Ireland
- Could Gaseous Transport Fuel Have a Future in Ireland?
- Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel
SESSION A2 – SMARTER TRANSPORT INCLUDING ICT & ITS
- Designing a Smarter Travel Strategy for Limerick City Using Precedent Studies and Focus Groups
- Personalised Travel Planning in Midleton, County Cork
- Short-term Traffic Flow Forecasting Using Dynamic Linear Models
- A Self-informed Bridge Assessment, Maintenance and Management Tool for Bridge Monitoring
SESSION A3 – TRANSPORT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- Indoor / Outdoor Air Quality Relationship in Urban Commercial Buildings: Dublin Case Studies
- Relative Nox Emissions from Road Transport, for Different Vehicle Types and Technologies
- A Multi-modal Approach to Sustainable Accessibility: A Case Study for the City of Galway, Ireland
- Ccs as a Mitigation Option Within Transport
SESSION B – TRANSPORT ELECTRIFICATION
- Research Programme Within the Ecar Ireland Project
- Large-scale Deployment of Electric
- Vehicles A Study of the 10% Electric Vehicles Target on the Single Electricity Market
- Power System Reserve from Electric Vehicles
SESSION B1 – TRANSPORT ELECTRIFICATION
- Impact of Weather Conditions on Electric Vehicle Performance
- The Role of Microgeneration in Displacing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Motor Vehicles in Ireland
- Range Estimation for the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Roadster Using Simplified Power Train Models
SESSION B2 – TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALS
- Determining Impact of Bus-stops on Roadway Capacity
- Development of a New Air Intake and Exhaust System for a Single Seat Race Car
- A Network Scan of Horizontal Road Geometry
- Development of Roadside Safety Barriers Using Natural Building Materials
SESSION B3 – TRANSPORT AND SOCIETY
- Towards a ‘usable Past’ for the Future of Mobility
- What Hope Is There for Us as Old Fogeys in the Future? A Review of Travel Behaviour of Older People: Current Trends and Future Prospects
- Determining the Welfare Effects of Introducing a Cap-and-share Scheme on Rural Commuters
- Exploring an Innovative Approach by Secad to Sustaining a Rural Transport Initiative
SESSION C2 – TRANSPORT LOGISTICS AND FREIGHT
- Time4trucks-freight Transportation & Congestion Relationships in Urban Areas-methodology Approach and Savings Potentials
- Evaluation of Business Models in Rail Freight Transport under Consideration of Multimodal Aspects
- A Constraint-based Approach to Ship Maintenance for the Irish Navy
- The Importance of Product Distinction in Lifecycle and Product Chain Analyses
- Achieving Paperless Freight Transport
SESSION C3 – TRANSPORTATION MODELLING
- Traffic Flow Predictions Employing Neural Networks in a Novel Traffic Flow Regime Separation Technique
- A Cycle Route Planner Mobile-app for Dublin City
- Estimation of Density and Gaps in Congested Traffic
- Extension of a Lane-changing Model to a Micro-simulation Tool
SESSION D – GREENING TRANSPORT
- Urban Sprawl and Travel Energy Consumption: The Case of the Walloon Region of Belgium
- Transport Governance, Structures and Policy Implementation: A Methodological Framework
- Learning to Cycle Again: Examining the Benefits of Providing Tax-free Loans to Purchase New Bicycles
- An Analysis of the Role of Bicycle-sharing in a European City: The Case of Dublin, Ireland
SESSION D1 – TRANSPORT STATS & ECONOMICS
- A Comparative Study of the Travel Patterns of Vehicle Owners and Persons Who Do Not Own a Vehicle
- An Examination of the Factors That Impact upon Multiple Vehicle Ownership: The Case of Dublin, Ireland
- An Econometric Analyses of Irish Residential Transport Expenditures
- Commuting: A Virtual Poll Tax Across Irish Regions
SESSION D2 – PUBLIC TRANSPORT
- Bus Transit Service Quality Monitoring in Uk: A Methodological Framework
- An Appraisal of Proposed and Existing Nta Corporate Structures
- Examining the Barriers to Sustainable Inter-city Transport in Ireland
- Brt or Lrt – the Feasibility of Lrt or Brt for Ucd
- How to Improve High-frequency Bus Service Reliability Through Scheduling
SESSION E3 – PEDAL POWER
- Facilitating Cycling to Reduce Urban Sprawl
- Throughput and Delay in a Discrete Simulation Model for Traffic Including Bicycles on Urban Networks
- Perception of Safety among Cyclists in Dublin City
- Analysis of the Non-motorized Commuter Journeys in Irish Cities