Republic of ireland

CIHT Republic of Ireland

Chair

Matt Steele

Matthew has been a Director of Traffic Transport and Road Safety Associates Limited (TTRSA) since 2009. He has over twenty years of experience in the industry and specialises in the fields of Transport Planning and Road Safety. He is registered as a Road Safety Audit Team Leader with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and has undertaken all stages of Road Safety Audit (Stage F, 1, 1/2, 2, 3 and 4) on all types and scales of scheme, including the M50 motorway and its associated junctions. He is a graduate of both the University of Salford and University of Westminster, and has worked extensively in Ireland and the UK, previously holding senior roles in Mouchel Parkman (MP), Transportation Planning International (TPi) and Colin Buchanan and Partners.

Honorary Treasurer

Sarah McDonagh

Sarah has worked as a Transport Planner with Jacobs for the last 5 years. She recently completed a Masters in Transport and Mobility in TU Dublin, and her professional interests lie in the development of sustainable transport infrastructure. 

Honorary Secretary

Colm Kelly

Communications Officer 

Vincent McCarthy

Vincent McCarthy has been working with the National Transport Authority in various roles since 2017. He currently works as a Transport Planner Engineer III in the Service Planning Division, primarily responsible for assisting the Authority in its roll out of the Connecting Ireland Rural Transport Strategy. Vincent is also a qualified and practicing Mediator and writes articles for his local paper on cycling in the area.

Vincent is keen to promote the profession of transport planning to those thinking of working in the area and hopes his year on the CIHT ROI board will be fruitful in that regard.

Membership / Recruitment Officer

Glenn Hingerty

Glenn Hingerty is an Assistant Lecturer (Civil Engineering) at Technological University Dublin where the focus of his teaching is in the area of Transportation Planning, Engineering and Design. He is a Co-Chairperson of TU Dublin’s MSc in ‘Sustainable Transport and Mobility’ programme, as accredited by CIHT. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer with Engineers Ireland, a Chartered Transport Planning Professional with CIHT and a Transport Infrastructure Ireland approved Road Safety Auditor.

Prior to taking a position at TU Dublin, Glenn held various positions at both Jacobs Engineering and the National Transport Authority while teaching Transportation Planning, Design and Modelling at University College Dublin part-time. His industry experience mostly features Transport Planning, Modelling, Traffic Impact Assessment, Infrastructure Design & Appraisal, Road Safety Auditing, infrastructure construction and the Design & Operations of Public Transport Networks.

While his background professionally is in civil engineering, he is passionate about promoting the transport planning profession particularly amongst those from multi-disciplinary backgrounds.

Events Officer

Andy Campbell

Andy is a Civil Engineer with over 35 years' experience in infrastructure project delivery. He specialises in major project delivery including the A5 and M20 road schemes in Ireland. He has a passion for optimising delivery through effective project management, adoption of lean principles and capturing the benefits of innovative solutions. Special interests include ITS, the environment and the circular economy.

Elected Committee Member

Dr. Shreya Dey

Dr. Shreya Dey is a Consultant and Civil Engineer, currently working as an Intelligent Mobility Consultant at Arup, where she is working on a diverse range of projects in the areas of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), Sustainable Transport, Micromobility, and Transportation Emissions.

She holds a master’s degree in Transportation Systems Engineering and completed her PhD in Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. Her PhD mainly focused on Vehicular Emissions and the work was undertaken as part of the “Greening Transport” project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Ireland.

Co-opted Member

Paraic Caroll

Dr. Páraic Carroll is an Assistant Professor in Transport Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering at University College Dublin, where he lectures in transportation modelling, policy, and planning.
Prior to this Páraic worked as a Transport Modeller in the Transport Planning and Capital Investment Division of the National Transport Authority.

Páraic completed a PhD in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, his thesis was entitled: 'Incentivising Car-shedding Behaviour in the Greater Dublin Area'. Which examined the behavioural response of commuters within the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), to a range of policy incentives devised to encourage travellers to make greater usage of sustainable travel modes for work and education trips.

 

 

Other Elected Committee Members: 

  • Brendan Meskell
  • Carl Courtney
  • John Fleming
  • Cathal Fahy

 Other Co-opted Members:

  • Lorraine D'Arcy

 

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