Clearly identifying the problem and the desired outcomes
should be the first step in any planning and delivery process. With
experience from across North America and the UK, our team can help you
establish the framework for downstream success and avoid developing plans and
options that will not meet your objectives.
Recent experience includes using early vision setting and outcome identification to ensure that a Concept of Operations for an expanding LRT system was clearly focused on
the customer experience, alongside required operational and maintenance outcomes, to deliver a focus for long-term success.
Establishing a long-range plan and strategy sets the roadmap
for agencies, cities and regions and helps to identify future projects and
investment priorities. Our team have worked with clients from small towns
and transit systems all the way up to some of world's biggest mega-cities and
regional transit agencies to help develop transportation plans that blend the
visionary with the pragmatic, in a holistic approach to ensure that what is in
the plan can be delivered.
Our experience includes supporting the development of a 30-year
strategy for a regional agency that looked beyond incremental corridor
enhancements to identify missing strategic links that will increase mode share
and reduce travel times.
Taking a project from a long-term strategy through to
detailed design and construction often requires trade-offs between potentially competing
viewpoints and priorities. We bring decades of experience developing, evaluating,
documenting and communicating the different viable options to help decision makers
understand trade-offs and transparently select the preferred option. This
process considers technical, economic, environmental and social factors to select
the project best aligned with the client goals and objectives.
Our
recent experience includes: design and delivery options for two major transit
maintenance facilities; options for developing a rural ride hailing/sharing
program; a feasibility assessment for a new highway; an urban gondola project;
as well as the development of a series of lower cost alternatives as comparators
to a single, mega rapid transit project.
Understanding the level of future demand, congestion and
associated revenue from any transportation investment is a critical input to
defining not only the project scope and design but also in helping explain the
purpose, need and value that the project will deliver. Our team has decades of forecasting
experience across all transportation modes from early pre-feasibility studies
through to investment grade forecasting and we can help to ‘right-size’ your
next infrastructure project.
Our project experience includes evaluating the
feasibility of road user pricing, and demand forecasting for a new ferry service,
airport rail link, LRT, and using demand and revenue forecasts to better
understand the investment case for a new highway.
Urban transit, in all its forms, is at the core of what we
do. Our team are industry leaders in helping our clients develop projects from concept
right through to operations. We have taken projects from lines on maps, built
the detail through corridor studies and preliminary design, and developed performance
specifications to maximise the value of the investment within a network.
Our experience covers all modes including bus, BRT, light
rail, metro and heavy rail and we have successfully developed projects in North
and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and New Zealand. Our recent
projects include major, city-shaping LRT and SkyTrain projects; examining a
new airport rail link connection; RapidBus route selection and design projects;
and an urban gondola.
Planning and designing high quality, high value infrastructure
requires an understanding of the full lifecycle costs of the assets including the
long-term operating and maintenance plans, facilities and costs. Our team
brings real-world experience of system operations which ensures what we plan is
efficient, optimises the use of facilities, minimises costs and considers the
life of the system to provide affordable, operable solutions for years to come.
We have recently been working on developing
the long-term facilities and operating plans for two transit agencies that are expanding
their rail networks. We have been undertaking operational analysis of a station
improvement plan to understand the possible impacts on network operational
performance and maintenance equipment staging.
Our team has extensive road and transit network modelling
experience at a micro-, meso- and macroscopic level in Canada, the US, Europe
and the Middle East. Drawing on our decades of modelling experience, we can provide advice scoping and developing the most appropriate models to
help answer the right question at the right time in project development. We also
provide peer review services to clients reviewing forecasts and modelling
methodologies, as well as expertise interpreting and analysing model output data
to ensure the development of robust and defensible project outputs. We have
also supported clients with data collection to support model development and
calibration.
Our recent experience includes developing
the modelling methodology and providing oversight for a planned railway; providing
peer review support for the model development, testing and forecasting for a
regional rail program; supporting and reviewing long-range, system forecasts
for an expanding rapid transit network; developing forecasts for a new
passenger ferry service and peer review of forecasts for a road improvement
project.
As the gap between available funding and infrastructure
requirements continues to grow, the need to demonstrate that a project provides
value for money is becoming increasingly important. Our team has decades of
experience developing decision making processes that ensure the recommendations
made are transparent, defensible and evidence-based and can be supported by
decision makers. This includes the development and application of Multiple
Account Evaluation (MAE) frameworks and detailed Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA).
Our team have led the development of dozens of rapid transit business cases that have secured funding commitments
from Federal, Provincial, regional and municipal governments as well as private
sector, equity investors and financiers.
If the expression "when all is said and done, a lot
more gets said than done" rings true, you are not alone. Far too many
projects end up as plans or reports on shelves gathering dust. With our
team's understanding of public and private funding and financing tools and
government approval processes, we can help you find a way to get your
project delivered.
Our recent project experience includes a governance and
delivery review for a major rapid transit project, exploring funding
opportunities for a new highway, developing recommendations for expanding network
maintenance capabilities and the development of a lower cost, more affordable
set of transit options as an alternative, project phasing and delivery opportunity.
From local plans to major infrastructure projects, effective
project development, management and direction is essential to driving projects
forward. With experience across all transportation modes, our team brings a
unique range of skills, integrating strategic thinking and structured
processes with technical expertise and industry understanding to ensure the
successful delivery of our clients’ projects.
We have experience managing and directing large
(100+ person), multi-disciplinary teams developing transit, mega-projects. More
recently, we have provided peer review and client-side support, acting as ‘trusted
advisors’ to some of the public sectors’ most senior leaders and executives as
they manage complex project development, approvals and funding processes.
Building support and consensus from stakeholders, interested
parties and the public are critical to the success of any project. Our
team has developed and implemented consultation and engagement processes that
have included everything from wide-reaching, online public engagement tools, to
more targeted stakeholder mapping and the creation of targeted stakeholder input
committees as well as very detailed, face-to-face meetings in residents living
rooms. Our technical background and understanding of the full project
development process enables us to present to public, stakeholders and
politicians across a range of complex and technical subjects in a way best
tailored to their particular needs and interests.
Our recent experience includes workshops and briefings with
elected officials and councils across a broad cross section of our projects, coordinating
the feedback and comments from an input committee for a new rail project and
working with internal stakeholders to ensure their technical requirements were understood
and reflected in the project specifications and desired outcomes.
Different procurement models inherently require different
types of technical specifications with owners needing to trade-off potential
cost savings through bidder innovation using pure performance-based
specifications against prescribing exactly what they want through a detailed
design. Our team have supported both owners and bidders through
procurement and can bring both perspectives to your next project.
Our project experience includes developing and reviewing procurement
and bid documents for nearly a dozen rapid transit projects, a bridge
rehabilitation project as well as system operator concession contracts.
