Transport Planning

Gifford’s transport planning service complements our consultancy’s proven capability in infrastructure design. It is central to Gifford’s philosophy of combining the best advisors in transport, environment, regeneration and heritage issues with the best planning systems, and is built from a customer-focused desire to meet the challenging needs of any brief.

Our transport planning approach is simple - understand what the client needs to achieve and provide advice to meet that objective. Our clients can engage us for individual elements, a phased programme from option generation and appraisal to final reporting or a comprehensive service assisting with the promotion and statutory processes necessary to achieve project delivery.

Providing effective transport solutions requires a mix of capabilities to address a wide range of often conflicting objectives. That’s why Gifford’s specialists include transport economists, traffic engineers, transport modellers and policy experts; a multi-, inter-disciplinary team all single-minded in their vigour and enthusiasm to deliver outstanding results.

We use leading industry software systems to accurately simulate, test and verify recommendations. Clients can therefore be confident that, whatever the service requested - from modest traffic management schemes or policy advice to major multi-modal management proposals – the results we produce will exceed expectations.

Our expertise encompasses:

• Appeals and representations
• Development planning
• Ports and shipping
• Regional and local transport
• Road safety
• Sustainable travel
• Traffic management

Capabilities include:

• Highways development control advice
• Junction analysis
• Pedestrian flow analysis
• People movement
• Public consultation and stakeholder engagement
• Public transport systems and operation
• Safety audits
• Transport advice for public bodies
• Transport assessments
• Transport demand modelling
• Transport economics and scheme appraisal
• Transport planning advice for developers
• Transport strategies for public authority bodies
• Travel behaviour studies
• Travel plans
• Travel surveys and analysis
• Walking and cycling strategies