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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.

Yet having or not having good access to key local services seems to be a lottery. Our ethos is to leverage the power of modern computer-based techniques to help you make more effective use of your most valuable resource, your workforce, and to ensure that the most vulnerable groups are neither unfairly or unwittingly access to wider social opportunities simply because of where they live or how much they earn.

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 the GIS-based analysis required by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). In adopting our solution, you can free up valuable officer time to concentrate on the more important tasks, such as service innovation, stakeholder engagement and change management.

Unique

Mayer Brown has unique experience in the application of GIS to transportation problems. Many of our consultants have a strong local authority background and understand the issues and sensitivities involved in working in that environment. Through our national network of offices, we can provide valuable local knowledge as well as unrivalled technical expertise tailored to your requirements. We can help you take service delivery to the next level.