Transport Planning Day 2023 Sponsors

Transport Planning Day wouldn’t be possible without our sponsors. We are hugely grateful for the support they give us every year.

Our sponsors help us shine a spotlight on the important role Transport Planners play in improving people’s lives daily; as well as featuring positive role models to encourage future generations of transport planners.

The theme for Transport Planning Day 2023 is tackling transport-related social exclusion and delivering a just transition to a decarbonised future.

You can find out more about our sponsorship opportunities here.

If you would like to become a sponsor for Transport Planning Day 2023 please get in touch via businessmanager@tps.org.uk.

List of sponsors

PLATINUM

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How can you better connect people, goods, services and places? Buro Happold work through the strategy, design, and delivery of a range of solutions, managing demand and embracing the principles of mobility as a service.

By combining their extensive knowledge of traditional transport planning, with an understanding of human behaviour, they design more intuitive routes into and around places. Buro Happold offer specialist knowledge on behaviour change, changing modes of transport and understanding changing transport demands. They understand the future potential of mobility as a service and use this to bring forward innovative groundbreaking approaches to problem solving.

Buro Happold’s global mobility centre of excellence collects the expertise from an international portfolio of regional and development planning and design. This includes experience in deployment of innovative technologies and methodologies, including automated vehicles and logistics, active and micro mobility, and last mile logistics.

GOLD

ioki, Deutsche Bahn’s subsidiary for digital mobility solutions, is one of the leading platform providers for on-demand solutions in Europe. Local authorities, cities and large enterprises have relied on our expertise since 2017 to optimise and digitise transport services according to the users’ demand. Independent of the operator, ioki delivers coordinated tech-components and a holistic operating system for new forms of mobility. The company’s solutions portfolio ranges from user centric mobility analysis to on-demand software for autonomous vehicles on SAE Level 4. These include flagship projects such the Europe-wide largest project for demand-responsive transport in the Rhine-Main area and Germany's first autonomous shuttle bus.

Find out how to become a Gold sponsor here.

SILVER

Stantec is a global consultancy made up of transport planners, engineers, economists, planners, environmental specialists, and project managers who drive innovation, research, and digital transformation to anticipate future client and community needs. Our teams think holistically, throughout a project lifecycle, to deliver places that consider and support communities, at every scale. With over 2,600 people in regional teams across the UK, we design sustainable and connected places that are resilient and equitable.

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Believ, the trading name of Liberty Charge Limited, is an electric vehicle (EV) charge point operator (CPO) on a mission to deliver cleaner air for all. It installs, operates and maintains all speeds of publicly accessible charge points at zero cost to both public and business sectors. Believ uses 100% renewable energy as part of its overarching passion and commitment to minimising the effects of climate change.    

Find out how to become a Silver sponsor here.

SME Sponsors

Charge Surveys is a Traffic Survey Data Collection provider offering a wide range of surveys using specialised equipment alongside an experienced and driven team. From single speed surveys to large multi-junction counts, Charge Surveys is on hand to collect and present detailed traffic reports to help you understand your projects current traffic conditions.

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Heuristic design and run workshops and events based around business games, including one specifically designed for transport planners. For more than 20 years they have been engaging business, government and academic audiences in unique learning experiences focused on decarbonisation of the transport and energy systems.

Kestrel surveys

Kestrel Surveys are a UK leader in using drone technology to obtain traffic data. As well as being a market leader in drone surveys, Kestrel Surveys are highly experienced in delivering all forms of traffic surveys, from a variety of classified counts to speed surveys to ATC’s and cycle and pedestrian surveys. Stacey Dix, the founder of Kestrel Surveys, has over 12 years’ experience with traffic data collection, and is a CAA approved drone pilot.

Find out how to become an SME sponsor here.