National Transport Authority in Ireland Selects Jacobs to Manage Infrastructure Project

Ireland’s National Transport Authority has selected Jacobs to provide client-partner delivery services for the BusConnects Dublin, Core Bus Corridors Infrastructure Works Program. This critical, 10-year program comprises 12 core bus corridors planned to deliver a substantial upgrade to walking, cycling and bus infrastructure in Dublin and the Greater Dublin Area, while addressing climate change.

The firm will lead an integrated, locally driven team with Arup, and subconsultants SYSTRA and Chandler KBS, providing multi-disciplinary and major program management capability to support NTA in overseeing sustainable delivery of approximately 230 kilometers (~142 miles) of continuous bus priority corridors and approximately 200 kilometers (~124 miles) of cycle paths and improved pedestrian facilities.

The delivery of the program aims to support safe and sustainable transport, while providing greater certainty on arrival times to destinations and also reducing public transport journey times. Of national strategic importance, the program will go on to form NTA’s blueprint for planned future BusConnects programs in Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway, and is a critical component of the Irish government’s national strategic objectives supporting compact growth, sustainable mobility and transition to a climate-neutral and climate-resilient society.