UCC team develops new methods to predict transport demand

UCC and Columbia said countries across the world will more accurately be able to estimate future transport demands due to the research. File picture: Larry Cummins

Researchers from University College Cork (UCC) have developed new ways to predict future demand for transport, one of the biggest drivers of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Teaming up US Ivy League university Columbia, the researchers have come up with new modelling to account for transport patterns among people and freight, amid the expected global population growth of two billion people by 2050.