Transport

Transport markets

What can we do for you?

Leveraging our global expertise in urban, suburban and rural environments, our experts work with you to plan and deliver efficient, reliable transport infrastructure and systems. We can help you:

Navigate complexity

We can develop strategies and plans that help you meet your long term goals, satisfy multiple objectives and stakeholders, and are resilient against future uncertainty.

Find integrated, smarter solutions

Our use of digital solutions enables rapid optioneering, stakeholder engagement and feedback, and design optimisation. Our digital tools, systems and ways of working enable collaboration, creating integrated project teams.

Cut carbon and build climate resilience

From strategic advice to on-the-ground know-how, we’re market leaders in reducing embodied and operational carbon, and in developing resilience to the physical impacts of climate change. We’re co-authors of PAS 2080, the international specification for managing infrastructure carbon, and developed the industry-leading Physical Climate Risk Assessment Methodology.

Achieve better return on investment

We’ll help you improve operational effectiveness and manage assets to their full potential, while improving the experience for end users and providing a better working environment for employees.

Maximise socioeconomic benefit

We work with you to achieve the greatest positive impact for your customers and communities. We can help you to create solutions that are intuitive and safe to use – and that maximise wider social, health and environmental outcomes.

Ontario Line, Toronto, Canada. We have helped prepare the way for the Ontario Line by defining and de-risking the works, as well as setting out stretching requirements for sustainability, quality and value for money.

Services we provide

Innovative transport solutions for a connected world

We have a multidisciplinary skill set and work across the entire lifecycle of transport infrastructure projects.

We can:

Help conduct transport planning for a city, local authority or region, taking a joined-up view of how public and private transport can interact to provide people with mobility and access to employment and opportunity.
Work with you to explore and evaluate options and frame business cases to fully consider benefits and costs, assisting your decision making.
Advise you on procurement and contractual approaches to achieve your aims, including collaborative delivery models, risk sharing and incentivisation.
Help formulate a long term vision for your assets and systems, and form a coherent set of programmes and projects to achieve this vision.
Advise on digital technologies and organisational change to achieve transformational improvements.
Provide specialised permitting, planning and regulatory support to help you get the go-ahead for your projects.

We can:

Carry out feasibility and environmental studies, site and geotechnical investigations to reveal the potential of sites and identify possible risks.
Design road, rail, airport and port infrastructure that’s suitably sized and positioned, safe, resilient and makes efficient use of resources.
Use carbon modelling and digital tools such as Moata Carbon Portal, in line with the international standard PAS 2080, to reduce carbon emissions across the asset lifecycle.
Apply regenerative design principles to promote biodiversity net gain, and mitigate the impact of projects on air quality, flood risk and other environmental factors.
Model human behaviour to design infrastructure and buildings that fit with the way people use them, improving safety and user experience.
Use industrialised construction solutions, including design for manufacture and assembly, to create assets that are of higher quality, more resource efficient and require less labour than using conventional onsite construction processes.

We can:

Manage projects or programmes from start to finish, with reviews at key project milestones, to drive delivery against time and budget.
Estimate and manage costs and risks and implement robust project controls to keep your project on track.
Use common data environments to share documents and data with project partners and stakeholders, building trust and collaboration.
Manage procurement, administer contracts, and supervise construction for an efficient supply chain, with appropriate risk allocation and incentives.
Incentivise and manage innovation in the supply chain, finding creative solutions to reduce carbon and cost, and to achieve better outcomes.

We can:

Produce digital twins of assets that will help you make the most of data to manage ongoing operation and maintenance.
Develop asset management strategies and plans, in line with PAS 55 standards, that enable you to better manage risk and prioritise investment.
Inspect and assess assets, scope repairs, and advise on the maintenance of equipment and structures to extend asset life.
Advise on site safety and security and conduct environmental compliance audits to check that sites are operating responsibly and minimise risk.

Our experience

We have a long heritage in transport, with over a century of experience working on rail, road, airport and port projects across the globe. Some of our recent projects have included:

Elizabeth Line, London, UK

We worked on this major new railway – which crosses London from west to east – from its early stages in various roles, advising on the route and its structures, producing solutions for its trains and developing the rail systems that convert tunnels and stations into a functioning railway.
John F Kennedy Airport, New York, USA

We developed a masterplan for New York’s international gateway airport which would enable it to handle 100M passengers a year by 2050. Our ongoing role incorporates programme planning for short term developments and measures to radically improve service quality. Our work contributed to the announcement of a US$13bn redevelopment that includes two new terminal complexes.
Lower Thames Crossing, UK

We’re part of a joint venture working for National Highways to deliver this new tunnel linking Essex and Kent which is planned to relieve pressure on the M25 and Dartford Crossing.
North-South Corridor, Singapore

We’re providing detailed design services, including 3D digital modelling, to the consortium of contractors delivering this major road tunnel connecting Singapore’s northern region with the city centre.
Ontario Line, Toronto, Canada

At 15.6km long and with 15 stations, the line is the biggest of four current subway expansion projects for Toronto. We have helped prepare the way for its construction by defining and de-risking the works, as well as setting out stretching requirements for sustainability, quality and value for money.
Port Talbot masterplan, UK

We were appointed by Associated British Ports to develop a masterplan showing how Port Talbot could be transformed to enable it to serve as a prime hub for the floating offshore wind industry, contributing to the decarbonisation of industry in South Wales and playing a major role in the socioeconomic regeneration of the area.
Puerto Caucedo, Dominican Republic

We conducted a feasibility study, master planning and detailed design showing how to increase capacity at this port in the Caribbean.
Quito Airport, Ecuador

We provided a comprehensive range of technical, commercial and critical risk management services for this technically challenging project to design a new international airport for Quito. We also monitored, assured and programme managed delivery of the airport, which is injecting over US$200M annually into the Greater Quito economy, providing direct connectivity to Quito’s major export and tourism markets.
Regional Connector, Los Angeles, USA

As detailed designer, we successfully navigated the challenges of earthquake risk and tangles of existing utilities to transform journeys for LA Metro passengers.
Rome-Cartersville development corridor, USA

We’re acting as design consultant to the Georgia Department of Transportation in developing the plans for this four-lane, 9km road linking the US411 and I-75 highways, with construction due to begin in 2026.
Sydney Metro, Australia

We’re a trusted delivery partner in Australia’s biggest public transport project, which will expand Sydney’s rail network to 46 stations and 113km of track by 2030, and have been collaborating with the client in an integrated engineering and design solutions team.