Case Study — Public Infrastructure · National Road · Ireland
Monaghan County Council: geo-tagged material tracking and CO₂ emissions data on the N2 national road.
Monaghan County Council used Hub360 on the N2 resurfacing and reinstatement works — tracking every truck movement from carriageway to quarry and back, generating per-shift CO₂ data, and replacing paper dockets with a fully auditable digital record across the project.
Outcomes at a glance
Full traceability. CO₂ data per shift. Zero paper.
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Load visibility
Every truck movement tracked from pickup to drop-off — verified, timestamped and geo-tagged
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Paper-free
Digital records replaced all paper dockets — no manual entry, no reconciliation after the fact
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Verifiable
Geo-tagged pickup and drop-off at every touchpoint — evidence that withstands audit
Per shift
CO₂ data
Loaded trips, empty returns and total project emissions — broken down by shift and by truck
Why this project matters
Road planings are one of Ireland's most valuable — and most poorly tracked — construction materials
Road planings — the bituminous material milled from the surface of existing roads during resurfacing works — represent a significant circular economy opportunity. Tracked correctly and returned to site as processed recycled asphalt planings (RAP), they reduce the need for virgin aggregate and lower the carbon footprint of the overall project.
But without verified movement records, planings are easily lost to waste streams, misdirected or simply unaccounted for. Paper dockets don't tell you where the load actually went — they tell you what a driver wrote down hours later.
TII's Circular Economy Strategy (2023–2025) specifically identifies the re-use of road planings as a priority — requiring traceable, evidenced material flows. This project put that requirement into practice.
This deployment directly supports TII's circular economy objectives for national roads infrastructure:
- Reduce environmental impact of construction by tracking material re-use
- Identify and assess opportunities for re-use of pavement materials
- Create opportunities to verify on-site and off-site material flows digitally
- Support carbon measurement and reporting for road projects
- Align with Climate Action Plan 2023 targets for infrastructure emissions
Source: TII Circular Economy in Roads Projects Guide · TII Circular Economy Strategy 2023–2025
The challenge and solution
What paper dockets couldn't do — and what Hub360 replaced them with
- Manual data entry and paper dockets — inefficient, error-prone and impossible to verify after the fact
- No real-time visibility of truck movements during the resurfacing works
- No verifiable geo-tagged evidence of correct pickup and drop-off locations
- No reliable way to estimate or report the CO₂ footprint of material movements by shift or by truck
- No audit trail to support compliance, circular economy reporting or TII requirements
A typical large-scale resurfacing scheme moving 350,000 tonnes generates approximately 35,000 duplicate paper dockets — all of which need to be stored for 7 years for audit purposes. None of them tell you whether the load went to the right place.
- Real-time geo-tagged tracking — photos at pickup and drop-off for every truck movement
- Digital dockets with automatic timestamps — replacing manual entry entirely
- Live portal oversight — movements visible in real time across the project
- Actual vs estimated tonnage tracking — per shift and across the project
- CO₂ emissions data — loaded trips, empty returns and total project impact
- Per-truck performance analysis — by date and individual vehicle
- Full compliance trail — audit-ready records for TII, EPA and Department of Transport
How it worked on site
Two tracked movements. One closed loop. Full digital record.
Hub360 tracked both legs of the material journey — from carriageway to quarry, and from quarry to reinstatement — with geo-tagged evidence at every touchpoint.
Road planings milled from the N2 surface were geo-tagged at pickup from the carriageway and tracked to the designated quarry or holding area for processing. Each load was timestamped, photographed and confirmed on the Hub360 portal in real time.
After processing, material was tracked from the holding area to the final reinstatement location on the N2. The second movement was geo-tagged at both ends — closing the loop and providing verified evidence that processed RAP material returned to the correct site location.
Every truck movement on the project was captured with time and GPS stamps, geo-tagged photos at lift and drop, and a full audit trail on the Hub360 portal — accessible in real time by the council, TII and site teams.
As part of the N2 works, Monaghan County Council trialled a new low-carbon asphalt technique aimed at cutting carbon emissions from road resurfacing. Hub360 provided the logistics and emissions tracking infrastructure for the trial — capturing actual vs estimated tonnage removed, monitoring truck movements per shift, and generating the project-wide CO₂ data that made the trial results verifiable and reportable. Without Hub360, the carbon savings from the asphalt trial would have been estimates. With it, they were evidence.
Sustainability & carbon reporting
CO₂ data that makes carbon commitments verifiable — not estimated
Hub360 generated emissions data across every movement type — giving Monaghan County Council and TII a project-level carbon picture that could be broken down by shift, by truck and by movement leg.
Based on vehicle type, distance, load weight and trip type — automatically.
This data supported the council's climate action reporting obligations and provided verifiable evidence for the low-carbon asphalt trial — moving the project from carbon estimates to carbon evidence.
Results
What Hub360 delivered for Monaghan County Council
Every load of planings tracked from milling through processing to final reinstatement. Closed-loop evidence for circular economy compliance and TII reporting.
Manual entry and paper ticket reconciliation replaced entirely. Digital records accessible in real time — no 7-year paper storage burden.
Actual vs estimated tonnage, per-shift emissions and total project carbon impact — making the trial results evidence-based, not estimated.
Live portal access throughout the project — movements visible as they happened, not reconstructed at week-end. Queries resolved in minutes, not days.
Individual vehicle efficiency tracked by date and shift — identifying operational gaps and supporting performance conversations with contractors.
The deployment on the N2 was extended beyond its initial phase and is informing Monaghan County Council's approach to digital material tracking across future road projects.
See this in action on your scheme
We'll walk through the exact setup used here — geo-tagging, CO₂ data and circular economy reporting.
Whether you're resurfacing, managing C&D waste or tracking spoil and planings — Hub360 gives you the verified movement records that make compliance, audit and sustainability reporting straightforward.
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