Connectivity
Connectivity is at the heart of our vision of creating opportunity for everyone through infrastructure. Transportation is a defining enabler connecting people to opportunities, and providing goods and services as a lifeline to communities that helps deliver a better world.
TMCs of the future
Transportation Management Centers (TMCs) of the future create operational efficiencies and keep society safe. TMC’s serve as command and control centers, using Intelligent Transportation System technologies and strategies to manage traffic congestion along our surface transportation networks connecting people, places and goods.
Enabling environmental justice
The definition of environmental justice (EJ) is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income in the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws and regulations and policies. We undertake environmental justice analysis on transportation projects to enable better and more equitable connectivity. We do this by connecting with the affected communities to understand them better, through communities outreach, public engagement and other community-driven solutions.
Find out more on EJ and how we are delivering equity today >
Simulation models for seaports and railways
In recent years, supply chains have been crippled by inefficient transportation systems. When goods and services don’t arrive on time, the knock-on effect to industries and communities can be significant. We’ve developed several simulation models for the operators of seaports and railways to show the costs and benefits of investment in better goods movement.
Connecting Hong Kong
Today, Hong Kong is lauded as one of the top global cities for infrastructure with the highest public transport use in the world. But less than 50 years ago travel between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon required a combination of ferry and roads, with some journeys taking the better part of a day.
Here, we celebrate the success of Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway (MTR) and the abundance of highways and tunnels that connect locations across the city and on opposite sides of the harbor or mountains. These best-in-class projects are creating opportunity for everyone.
Explore the best-in-class projects Hong Kong created together >
Resilient, interconnected, responsible, balanced: London 2070
Cities are constantly evolving – never more so than now. In the London metropolitan area, a combination of urgencies – recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, climate change mitigation and keeping pace with unprecedented technological change – are creating acute social, economic and environmental challenges.
To meet them, we need to think well beyond today. Our London 2070 report deliberately sets out to look beyond most policy makers’ timelines in order to think beyond what has already been imagined. In an era of growing inequality in the capital and nationally, and to have a pro-active response to accommodating climate change, we need a city that is resilient, interconnected, responsible and balanced.
Connectivity of the future through MaaS
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) isn’t just a fanciful idea. By integrating different forms of transport and transport-related services, cites could offer citizens more efficient and convenient transportation systems, making the most of their limited budgets and resources.
To make this a reality, cities need a clear, strategic vision, more flexible, sustainable and holistic approaches to urban planning, a focus on smart infrastructure and sustainable, efficient and affordable solutions, and greater collaboration and trust with private sector providers.
For more on Maas, check out Right here, right now: the future is Mobility as a Service >