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.