LT Consultants (LT)

LT is a Finnish Consultancy, established in 1970, specialising in transport, environment and infrastructure research and planning. LT employees over 100 experts in the above fields.

LT:s main roles are the project co-ordination, the development of the evaluation methods and the decision support tool, to lead the policy testing process, analyse the results and to be responsible for tests to be made in Helsinki.

LT:s subcontractor is Prof. Hämäläinen from the Systems Analysis Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology, who will assist in developing the decision support tool.

LT:s Client Partners will include the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, the Ministry of the Environment, the Regional Council of Uusimaa as well as the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council and the Finnish Road Administration.

Contact person:
Lic.Tech., M.Sc Kari Lautso kari.lautso@ltcon.fi

  

Institut für Raumplanung (IRPUD)

The Institute of Spatial Planning (Institut für Raumplanung, IRPUD) is the central research facility of the Department of Spatial Planning of the University of Dortmund, Germany.

IRPUD's main tasks in the project will be the modelling of the interaction between environmental quality and locational behaviour, the development of GIS-based models for the calculation of spatially disaggregate sustainability indicators and the policy tests in Dortmund.

The policies will be tested on the Dortmund urban region. IRPUD will cooperate with the City of Dortmund (Planning and Environment Departments).

Contact person:
Prof. Dr. Michael Wegener mw@irpud.rp.uni-dortmund.de

  

Marcial Echenique and Partners Limited (ME&P)

Marcial Echenique and Partners Ltd (ME&P) is a planning consultancy based in Cambridge. The company offers a range of specialist services and software in the fields of planning and transport, with particular emphasis on strategic modelling applications. ME&P has been established for over twenty years, during which time it has earned an international reputation for its strategic modelling, model and software development and research work. The company has extensive experience of working at European level and undertook Fourth Framework Programme projects for DG12 and DG7. As well as being one of the partners in the SPARTACUS project (System for planning and research in towns and cities for urban sustainability) for DG XII, ME&P co-ordinated the DG VII START project (Development of strategies designed to avoid the need for road travel) and has either led or participated in numerous other European research projects including the DG7 STREAMS and EUNET work.

ME&P will play an important role in three of the main work areas of the project: (i) the development of GIS tools for the MEPLAN models; (ii) the development of an internet-based analysis and presentation tool and (iii) improvement of the economic evaluation methodology. The GIS tools to be developed will help to automate the policy testing process and provide improved post processing and presentation of model outputs. Complementing this, the internet-based analysis package will allow presentation and comparison of model data, in standard format, using a central data repository. Work on the economic evaluation methodology will seek to increase the comprehensiveness of existing methods.

Contact person:
Mrs. Lynn Devereux lsd@meap.co.uk

  

University College London (UCL)

Two departments at University College London are involved in this proposal: the Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning, and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. The UCL team will be responsible for work in three areas: the development of GIS interfaces to the TRANUS land use and transport model; research on new indicators relating to energy use, emissions and urban green space; and policy testing on the city of Inverness. UCL’s client partner is The Highland Council.

Contact person:
Prof Philip Steadman j.p.steadman@ucl.ac.uk

  

Trasporti e Territorio srl (TRT)

TRT Trasporti e Territorio srl is an Italian company specialised in transport economics and transport-land use modelling to support public and private decisions on transport investment and policies.

TRT will be responsible for the economic evaluation methodology as well as for the policy tests in Vicenza and Naples.

The Client Partners in the project will be the Transport Departments of the Municipality of Vicenza and Naples.

Contact person:
Ing. Angelo Martino martino@trttrasportieterritorio.it

  

Marcial Echenique y Compañía S.A. (MECSA)

Marcial Echenique y Compañía S.A.(MECSA) is a Spanish consultancy, which due to the complementary nature of its operating divisions (Transport and Economics, Architecture, Urban Development and Models) undertakes projects with a multidisciplinary nature, particularly transport and urban planning studies and projects as well as applying mathematic transport and land use models.

Apart form the services rendered at national and international level, MECSA has been involved in several European research projects, like SPARTACUS, SCENES, START and STREAMS.

The policies will be tested on the city of Bilbao. The Basque Regional Government will be a client partner in the present project.

Contact person:
Dr. Angel Gil agil@mecsa.es

  

STRATEC

Stratec is a Belgian planning consultancy, established in 1984 in Brussels, specialised in transport and land use planning and in environment impact studies. It comprises 25 experts.

Stratec's role in the project is to be responsible for the policy testing made in Brussels, its analysis and the conclusions that can be drawn from it for the local government.

Stratec's subcontractor will be mainly Tomas de la Barra, the conceptor of TRANUS.

Stratec's client partner is the government of the Brussels-Capital Region (Department of Transport).

Contact person:
Françoise Boon / Sylvie Gayda f.boon@stratec.be