Aoife Brennan
Transport policy researcher at Trinity College Dublin, side career in travel writing. Specialises in airport ground transport and rail integration.
Aoife is a senior researcher in transport policy at Trinity College Dublin. Her academic work focuses on how European airports interface with their host cities’ rail systems, why that interface fails as often as it does, and what we can learn from the cases that work. Her travel writing started as a way to translate that work for non-specialist readers.
She writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, one piece a month focused on ground transport, last-mile connectivity, and the design decisions that shape whether a passenger experiences an airport as accessible. Her beat is the bit of the journey before and after the terminal, which she argues is the bit most reviews ignore.
She lives in Dublin city centre, flies DUB whenever she can, and maintains the position that AMS-Schiphol is the European model for airport-rail integration done well, despite everything else AMS has going against it.