Any view of the future of transportation reveals a dense field of intersecting forces and unpredictable change. Yet understanding those forces, their relationship to emerging trends, and the opportunities available to forward-looking organizations and agencies to shape them, reveals enormous opportunity.  These opportunities, available to planners in mature transportation areas as well as those tasked with developing transportation systems and solutions anew, will restructure those parts of our world dedicated to moving people and goods from one place to another.

Pinyon believes that the key to undertaking this restructuring successfully lies in a deep understanding not only of the technology – its capabilities and limitations as well as available lessons from its global application – but also of the broad historical, social, and cultural forces that shape our relationships with transportation and mobility.  We work with organizations that seek the bigger picture – and greater influence.

Our practice in transportation is heavy on policy and long-term planning, and we help policy-makers; corporate strategists; federal, state, and local transportation planners; citizen groups; and entrepreneurs grapple with issues such as:

• Networked roadways, bikeways, and railways
• Alternatives to the ICE and the economics of adoption and transition
• The challenges and opportunities for mobility
• Urban/rural connectivity
• Global markets, policies, and competitiveness
• Systemic integration (transportation, utility, telecommunications)
• Architectures of transportation
• Safety and security
• Multimodal innovation and integration
• New transportation systems for new cities
• Demographics, migration, and climate change

We help our clients: make more informed choices about development; evaluate technology and market feasibility; articulate implications of policy choices, capture and monitor significant and outlier trends in transportation; advise on modal integration planning; model transportation mode growth and analyze opportunity and danger points; and more.

Read more at Insight from Pinyon Transportation