Empowering informed decision-making
Transport research & evaluation
Our team of transport consultants excels in transport research and evaluation, uncovering critical insights into both historical and current travel choices, impacts, alternatives, and trends. These insights serve as the foundation for future planning and strategic endeavours. We can deliver stand-alone research projects, or use these skills to support our strategy and outreach work.
Ansons’ transport research and evaluation services will help redefine your understanding of travel behaviour. Our findings provide a deeper understanding of the transport challenges you face and the most effective ways to address them.
Holistic project & programme evaluation
We have extensive project and programme evaluation experience in the areas of active travel, behaviour change, public transport and mobility as a service (MaaS). Depending on the needs of the organisation, our evaluations can be conducted to pre-defined criteria, or using monitoring and evaluation frameworks that we devise ourselves in consultation with the client. We pride ourselves in offering objective, evidence-based transport research and evaluation, which – alongside our decades of sector experience – can then inform the development of strategies.
What our clients say about us
We conducted an evaluation of FEL’s Free Bikes for Young People programme, and here is what they had to say about it:
“We have worked with Ansons on a number of projects and knew they would have the right approach with our free bikes pilots. They understood our local needs and represented those, in parallel with national programme ambition of Scottish Government.
The outcomes of the work have informed our on-going delivery of the free bikes projects, and we are already implementing many of the recommendations this year.”
Active Travel Development Manager, FEL
Robust social research
Our expertise in transport research and evaluation includes conducting interviews and focus groups with diverse participants, as well as designing, conducting, and analysing surveys, extracting vital insights to guide and inform your strategic decisions. This work is often complemented by desktop research and analysis of secondary data to enrich our insights and recommendations.
Our services include:
- Evidence reviews
- Travel surveys
- Transport options analysis
- Feasibility studies
- Transport infrastructure audits
Insightful spatial analysis
Our GIS skills offer valuable insights to inform your business decisions. For instance, multi-modal travel time analyses can provide information on site accessibility by different modes of transport. Our GIS analyses are particularly beneficial to understanding travel-time benefits and challenges associated with workplace relocations, or the accessibility of urban areas and visitor attractions. Among other things, these insights enable us to build an understanding of the accessibility of a site or area by various transport modes.
Our research work empowers you to make more informed decisions.
Interested in finding out more about the practical applications of our research skills? Head to our projects page for examples of some of the research projects we have delivered!
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ResearchInner Forth Futures (IFF) is a partnership of local authorities, public bodies and charities. -
ResearchAnsons conducted an evidence review on ‘Reducing car use through parking policies’. -
ResearchThe Scottish Government's 2018 commitment to investing £2 million over three years in the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) concept marked a significant milestone in the pursuit of innovative transportation solutions.