Buro Happold’s transport planning team provides a wide range of services to both private and public sector clients. Our main areas of work include masterplanning, transportation studies and assessments, local transport planning, parking studies and network capacity assessments. Working as part of our multi-disciplinary Infrastructure group, we provide the vital access key to unlock a new development.

Working in close partnership with clients, stakeholders and other professionals, our transport planners ensure that robust and sustainable solutions can be identified and implemented. We have extensive experience gained on a variety of developments, from new retail malls and mixed-use complexes to large urban regeneration schemes. Our solutions are always tailored to the individual requirements of each project.

We promote an integrated approach to complex transport planning issues, where an overall understanding of strategic design and technical issues is essential. As a vital element in the design of the site infrastructure, quality transport links help to optimise land use and create community ‘wholeness’. We use our expertise to enhance accessibility and knit urban developments together.

Buro Happold values its client relationships highly, considering them vital to the success of the transport planning. By maintaining open lines of communication through all phases of the project, we are better able to bring the client’s aspirations and the architect’s vision to reality. We are also proficient at meeting tight budgetary and programme schedules and obtaining technical approvals from local authorities and statutory bodies.

With urban renewal now at the forefront of the planning debate, pedestrian-friendly local planning is an integral part of our area-wide transport proposals. The Local Transport Plan is a five year vision and bid document which sets out the transport objectives of the Local Highway Authority and the strategies needed to achieve them. It is a statutory requirement for local authorities to produce this document and our team provides advice on local transport plans for partners such as Dorset County Council.