Transport Consultancy 1

Strategic Advice

  

EWL offer our clients informed strategic advice. We believe that our specialist railway team, in particular our high-speed rail experience, gained over the past 50-years gives us the ability to make in-depth, objective and trusted judgements. We continue to advise governments and the rail industry throughout the world on their strategic rail investments.

Transportation Appraisals, Business Cases and Funding Options

  

Securing the funding and investment for transport solutions require to demonstrate value for money and financial sustainability. For public and private sector projects, value for money is obtained by investing in measures which best meet social, economic and technical requirements which are specific to that project. We provide the strategies, analysis of current problems and opportunities, by demonstrating a fit with policy aims, including risk identification.

Our team includes experts in stakeholder engagement; transport planning, modelling and forecasting; economic, safety, environmental and financial analysis; scheme design technical assessments, costing; and business case preparation.

EWL have been advising Clients and have expertise to help clients secure funding and approvals for a large number of schemes and programmes including Local Sustainable Transport Fund applications, High Speed Rail, National commuter rail networks, major transport schemes, and Metro-link projects.

Public Transport Development Strategies and Feasibility Solutions

  

Our transport planning and engineering skills are combined on all of our projects to develop evidence based public and private transport development strategies; balancing the requirements of the corridors served, policy goals and costs.

Transportation Planning

  

We work with country governments, local authorities, regions, districts, cities and to support their aspirations to develop excellent transport networks in order to accommodate the world’s growing populations, support economic vitality and most importantly protect the environment.

Our approaches include stakeholder and public consultation; transport modelling and analysis; capacity analysis, and engineering feasibility, design and costs.

Rail Service Planning

  

Planning a rail service or developing a timetable is fundamental to the preliminary design. We have worked on the development of the French TGV timetable and new line and station studies and franchise bids for train operating companies and also Network Rail.

Scheme Development Planning and Traffic Engineering

  

Optimal traffic and transport engineering designs improve the efficiency and accessibility of our towns and new developments; and can be essential in securing planning approval. We design transport solutions to meet the needs of all cars, service vehicles, public transport, pedestrians and cyclists.

Our services include estimating trip generation of new developments, junction analysis and design, parking and pick-up/drop-off designs, internal circulation layout, signing strategies and temporary traffic management advice.

Our clients include governments, councils, 

developers, etc.