Optimising complex, existing city networks often means taking a step back to see how a network truly serves today’s users, including how it connects to other transport modes as one cohesive system.
Defining the strategy
Our work in this space starts with understanding strategy and objectives. In every town or city, the existing road network will reflect a mix of historical decisions, physical constraints, earlier planning trends and decisions and many other factors. Cities and towns are not static though – and our strategy work aims to bring together the many dynamics that shape life and work in a location, and help clients to develop a strategy that reflects the future experience they want to achieve.
Responding to incidents
Sometimes optimisation is about ensuring quick responses to identifying and mitigating events which impact traffic flow, for example traffic accidents or weather events. We are developing and using the latest digital road management platforms to support decision making for Virginia Department of Transportation through their Artificial Intelligence Decision Support System project, allowing for fast multiagency responses and preventive measures on the network.
Supporting behavioural change
‘Modal shift’ – the desire to encourage the community to use alternatives to private cars – is a priority for many cities, and can be achieved using both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ strategies. Mobility pricing is increasingly on the table as one such strategy and our focus is always on designing schemes with clear objectives and ease of user for the road user, for example our work supporting Think Tank Centre for London as they considered what next generation mobility pricing could look like in the city of London.
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Projects
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California’s first long-span cable-stayed bridge
Long Beach International Gateway Bridge, United States of America
Planning an electric bus corridor that links communities across California’s Central Valley
Kings/Tulare Cross Valley Bus Corridor Plan, United States of America
Major redevelopment transformed with integrated transport and sustainable design
Cardiff Central Square
Strengthening Suurhoff bridge with innovations in bridge renovation
Suurhoff bridge, Netherlands
We take a multidisciplinary approach to our roads and streets work in urban environments, looking at how road based travel connects with other modes such as rail and bringing the full breadth of Arup services to our urban road clients.
