David O'Connor
Head of Environment and Planning
Email: dave.oconnor@tudublin.ie
Tel: +353 1 2206635
David is Head of Discipline for Environment and Planning – the largest and longest-established centre for Planning and Environmental Management education on the island of Ireland – where he oversees some of Ireland’s foremost programmes in planning and environmental management. Under David’s guidance TU Dublin Environment & Planning provides specialised educational paths for advanced, professional career development with a mission to provide “a leadership role in the development of a meaningful and broadly accepted culture of sustainable planning and environmental management on the island of Ireland”.
Previously, as Senior Lecturer, David was co-creator, lead author and co-Chairperson responsible for the MSc in Sustainable Transport & Mobility, a multi-disciplinary programme delivered jointly by two Schools and is the first dedicated transport planning postgraduate programme in Ireland. David was also chair of the M.Sc. Spatial Planning, a highly regarded leadership programme in spatial planning.
David has carried out extensive research in transport planning, which has been recognised for its impact. Recent interests include walkability, level-of-service, urban greenways and transport governance. David is a Committee member of the Irish Transport Research Network (ITRN) and the Dublin City Council Public Transport Committee. He also sits on the IPI Technical & Education Committee and the OPR National Planning Knowledge Network.
David has thirty years of professional and academic experience in transport and urban planning in Ireland and internationally. This includes project-lead experience on a broad range of innovative transport strategies in both public and private sector sustainable transport planning project environments.
David endeavours to be a voice for sustainable planning and development and has written a column on transport issues for the Dublin Inquirer and presented to formal committee hearings in the Oireachtas.