Executive Summary
Foreword
Introduction
Rankings
Two Pillars
Safety
Fleet Management
City Snapshots
What This Means
Outlook
Methodology
Dublin’s overall score (49) masks a significant divide between vehicle types. Passenger vehicles score 43, dragging the city’s overall position down. Trucks score 57 — a 14-point gap that is the most operationally instructive finding in Dublin’s data. The explanation is scheduling. Truck operators in Dublin make effective use of off-peak delivery windows, shifting activity away from peak congestion. Passenger fleets — tied to business hours and customer schedules — have less room to do the same. The data is a direct case study in what structured operations achieve in a mid-tier congestion environment. One network-specific risk: the N7/Naas Road generates 71% of cornering harsh events in its top hotspot cell. The geometry of this corridor creates consistent risk for vehicles on it — a planning consideration for any fleet running regular routes along this stretch.
City snapshot: 03 Dublin: The truck town
For fleets operating here Off-peak scheduling is the
Score: 49
primary lever in Dublin. The truck-passenger gap
demonstrates it works at scale — fleets that adopt structured delivery windows measurably outperform those that do not. The N7/Naas Road warrants specific attention in route planning and driver briefings.
Driving profile
Congestion: 48
Trip Inefficiency: 52
Passenger: 43
Truck: 57
315 harsh events per 1,000 trips — safest in the study
11.97 L/100km 12.9% of fuel wasted idling
14 points Trucks outperform passengers by 14 points
European Urban Freight Efficiency Index 14
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