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Transport plays a critical role in every city, acting as both an economic backbone and social connector, allowing residents of cities to live prosperous, happy and healthy lives. With new communication technologies emerging, changes in work and lifestyle triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, public transport is in a major transition.
“Transport is the lifeblood of cities – connecting people with opportunities that allow them to live their lives in healthy and successful ways. At the same time, the race to net zero is reshaping how cities plan and operate their transport systems. ”
Jonathan Kinghorn Global Transport Consulting Leader
Transport is also a major contributor to both air pollution and carbon emissions, often accounting for between a third and half of a city’s carbon emissions. Taking a strategic and engaged approach to the role transport plays in city life is an integral part of how cities will achieve their net zero goals.
When transport works well a journey becomes a seamless experience, highly integrated, reliable and efficient for all. It becomes part of the positive experience of a city, helping it to become economically successful for all of its residents. However, when transport works less well it can become congested, unreliable, polluted and in some cases unsafe and inaccessible to communities.
How we help you
We work across all modes, at both strategic and local levels. We help cities to plan for the future, blending insights on human preferences and behaviour, with data analysis and modelling, to forecast future transport needs and opportunities.
Our global team of transport planners, modellers, analysts, economists and designers works with organisations across national and city governments, transport operators and agencies, and landowners and developers to help plan the future of transport.
