Accessibility Planning
Appreciative
In a society that is increasingly car reliant, where individuals and families are struggling to balance work, study and leisure, where transport networks and service providers alike are being stretched to the limit, having easy, reliable access to employment opportunities, to high quality education, to good healthcare has never been more important.
Our ethos is to use GIS techniques to ensure that the most vulnerable groups are neither unfairly or unwittingly denied access to public transport and wider services because of where they live.
The central challenge of accessibility planning is to make visible those people in society that have become invisible.
Cost Effective
There are many factors to be considered if social exclusion is to be avoided; the possibilities often seem bewildering. Efficient accessibility planning demands a multifaceted approach, looking both sideways across traditional service boundaries and forwards into the future. And it needs to take full account of both physical and social geographies. But used correctly, it is a tool that can lift barriers, focus effort and unite fragmented communities.
Whilst software has been developed to aid in this process we believe that it provides, at best, only a partial solution. Our experience tells us that there are many hidden costs entailed in adopting such an approach: it involves a very steep learning curve; is very demanding of human, data and computer resources; and it requires a great deal of expertise to interpret the outputs correctly. At Mayer Brown, we can offer an alternative, more cost-effective solution by providing direct, low cost support for GIS-based analysis .
Mayer Brown has a wide range of experience in the application of GIS to transportation problems. Our consultants understand the issues and sensitivities involved in working geographical data. We can provide valuable local knowledge and technical expertise tailored to your requirements.