Transportation Planning

WHAT WE DO

We provide bespoke transportation planning for government.

Our team offer a flexible evidenced response when assessing a need, policy, plan or answering a specific question.

Survey Design & Execution

Responding to minister’s questions, sudden media interest or a planned programme of investigation, Galle Saliman provides efficient survey design and specification to quantify key issues and generate the evidence required. You may need an urgent response. You may want a suitable quantified answer but asking the question may not be straight-forward.

That is where our experience and expertise in bespoke survey design and execution allows us to create the right process to gather sufficient evidence. We can prepare reports that focus on the key question, drawing on the evidence and using the analysis to provide illumination to a key decision or contentious issue.

Transport Planning

Our team work with governments to deliver policies. We provide analytical support, including modelling, that provides the quantified evidence for the investment into new bus routes, road closures, village enhancements, revisions to access or circulation and parking management. Our work also supports legislative and regulatory change. We review and advise on the steps to enact policy levers, forecast impacts and set out trigger points to enable lasting and effective change. We have advised on Workplace Parking Levies, Fare and Tariff Strategies, City Centre Licensing, Environmental Taxes, Technologies and de-criminalisation.

Review & Assurance

Galle Saliman provides local authorities with experienced reviewers for current provision of a service or operation.

Our commissions are typically a few months in duration, but maybe only a few days. We meet with providers, staff, stakeholders to understand the strategic purpose of the service and provide an independent considered review of the current operation. We follow lines of enquiry agreed with the client, but would expect to consider the effectiveness of the service in delivering the outcomes it should, whether it is efficient and how the service provides value for money.

To assist us in our work, we benchmark provision where suitable and draw on traditional and emerging thoughts about what is required from an operation or service. Given that much of our work is for the public sector we consider the social value of the service. In examining alternative models of provision we use a cost to serve approach, establishing whether savings are likely to be realised and the potential increase to risk or costs being borne by others.

Our model is to provide an independent balanced review to help the organisation seize opportunities and work on strengths. We will look to set out where a service is performing well and provide reasonable and realistic recommendations to address gaps.

About Us

GalleSaliman is a small collective of personnel each with typically 25-30 years’ experience working in or for public sector organisations. They bring a considered and challenging approach to develop and enhance what you are already doing, drawing on their own experience and awareness of approaches being adopted elsewhere.

Andrew Potter BSc CEng CITP MBCS

has worked for major consultancy practices since the late 1980s. While working in London he provided project assurance to Transport for London between 2011-2016 examining a range of projects including IT migration, Cycle Hire and Public Transport Asset management. More recently he led the Jersey Driver Vehicle Standards Review in 2018 and the Jersey Parking Operations Review in 2017. Both reviews consisted of an assessment of the service provided considering effectiveness, efficiency and viability leading to recommendations on the future governance and appropriate business models for the service in the future.

Mark Foster BSc PGCE

has over thirty years’ experience of project management as an internal consultant for large public sector providers. He has developed and managed quality management processes, been responsible for internal and external audit processes and has experience in planning and strategy development at an executive level. He is experienced in designing quality assurance processes in relation to skills training provision and designing performance indicators to inform institutional and individual practitioner development. He is currently undertaking a range of external quality audit activities for statutory authorities in various institutions in the UK and Italy, Ireland and Malta and reviewing key operational processes for a Government of Jersey agency.

Graham James MA(Cantab) MSc MPhil FCILT

has 25 years’ transport planning experience in the public sector and consultancy. He brings particular expertise in transport economics, appraisal and business cases across all modes of transport, along with strategy and scheme development, rail planning and policy, public transport, active travel, investment assurance and independent peer-review.

Graham is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), and an accredited Better Business Cases Practitioner. He teaches Transport Economics and Appraisal for PTRC’s Principles of Traffic and Transport course, and has an extensive publication and speaking record.

Tiff Lynch BTech (hons) CMILT MTPS

has 40 years’ wide-ranging experience in both the private and public sectors. She uses her wide knowledge of transport strategies, policies, regulations, delivery and operation to deliver well considered project outputs that meet client objectives.

She has an unusually broad range of transport planning experience, taking in road, rail, water, passenger and freight transport, along with spatial/ development planning, infrastructure planning and place-making. She is passionate about joined-up thinking, focusing on outcomes, and informed, inclusive collaboration.

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