Transport and Connectivity
Richard de Cani
Transport and connectivity forms an essential component of how any town functions and survives. This is both at a strategic level, providing connections between towns, and at a local level in terms of connectivity within towns. How people travel is a function of how they live their lives, providing connections for work and leisure. Access to good transport plays a significant role in contributing towards other outcomes such as health, wellbeing and economic prosperity. Transport and connectivity cannot be considered in isolation – it is an enabler of growth; a driver of fair and equitable growth, and contributes significantly to a broad range of economic, social and environmental outcomes. Some of these are positive but others are negative – congestion, poor air quality and lack of connectivity can be considerable challenges in many towns.
Transport is also changing – with new technologies and operating models creating more choice and flexibility for users. We have also seen rapid reductions in travel as a result of COVID-19 and considerable uncertainty in how future demand will respond. We are here to support you on transport related projects and the importance of connectivity.
The types of support we can offer includes:
advice on interpreting data and evidence
support on transport option assessments and appraisals, including advice on quantifying transport economic benefits
support on developing specific transport Business Cases in compliance with WebTAG
access to online seminars, surgeries and direct 1-1 support
Topic Lead: Richard de Cani
Richard is a recognised senior leader of planning and Transport, with a strong track record of strategic thinking and delivery with in-depth knowledge of the transport/planning issues facing cities and city regions. He brings together a unique combination of senior client-side experience from Transport for London, with direct experience of leading many of the new transport and planning initiatives in London and the UK over the past decade.
His experience combines place-based transport thinking with the development of plans and proposals for transport that contribute to the delivery of wider outcomes. Richard leads multidisciplinary studies and plans for towns, cities and areas of change including development of transport and movement strategies as part of a wider plan for delivering economic, social and environmental change. He develops business cases for major transport infrastructure projects, including assessment of wider economic, environmental and social impacts.
Richard leads the preparation of strong evidence bases that draw on data to gain insight that support the development of strategy and specific policy areas, and develop new policy areas that achieve behaviour change such as growing public transport use; increasing cycling; achieving carbon neutral and addressing air quality. He works extensively with political and other stakeholders, helping to structure plans and programmes including community engagement programmes that align with local stakeholder needs.
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