We provided input into the transport aspects of masterplanning Design Codes for the area of Sandgate Street, Verney Road and Old Kent Road within the Old Kent Road masterplan for the London Borough of Southwark.

Design codes develop the masterplan in a greater level of detail, setting out the design principles to be followed by developers to gain planning consent.

This involved working with Farrells masterplanners to review the streets and places hierarchy for the area in terms of transport and movement, mapping servicing access and routes, providing multi-modal access maps for walking, cycling, public transport, logistics and vehicular access and advising on designs for typical street sections and walking and cycling routes through green spaces.

Our work helped to plan better connections for pedestrians and cyclists to a proposed linear park along the alignment of Verney Road and improve north-south connections between Verney Road and Old Kent Road. These proposed improvements will help to revitalise Old Kent Road as a high street and allow for intensification of the development, providing homes, workplaces, shops and leisure uses.

We carried out a traffic and urban realm study to improve pedestrian accessibility and connectivity between Elephant Park and Victory Community Park in Southwark.

We undertook traffic counts and mapped traffic displacement to assess several options for the link between the parks including one-ways, improving pedestrian priority with a raised crossing point and a road closure. Options were assessed against their impacts on safety, different road users including pedestrians, cyclists, motor vehicles, buses and access to neighbouring developments. We ranked the options in terms of which would best provide a safe and attractive pedestrian link between the parks and support the aims of LB Southwark’s Movement Plan to reduce traffic and improve people’s experience of the street whilst having limited impact on local surrounding roads.

Momentum supported the team led by BBBL on behalf of Public Services and Procurement Canada to undertake a regulatory review of the Gilles-Marceau building in Saguenay, where the Revenue Agency offices are located. Part of the review included an assessment of fire evacuation scenarios, which was conducted using Momentum’s innovative dynamic microsimulation modelling tools.

Momentum collaborated with the client and the design team to determine three realistic fire scenarios that would impact the movement of people evacuating the Gilles-Marceau building. These scenarios, along with a baseline scenario of evacuation without a specific fire location, were modelled using the Legion SpaceWorks software and were based on the worst-case occupancy of the building, when the two employee shifts overlap. The evacuation time was calculated and compared to regulatory standards and guidance from the US and Europe to assess the building’s performance and identify any necessary changes to the building layout to reduce evacuation times.

The Chase Center is the highly anticipated mixed-use, multi-purpose arena set to be the impressive new home for the five-time NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors. Located along the coastline of Mission Bay in San Francisco, the Chase Center will offer a state-of-the-art indoor venue designed to host a variety of major events, from sports and concerts to conventions and shows. The arena will be complemented by approximately 3 acres of landscaped public space and new retail outlets to serve the surrounding community.

Led by our modelling and analytical expertise, Momentum supported the arena during the preliminary design stages with crowd flow and traffic modelling to ensure the best design provisions were made to improve the circulation of visitors and spectators before, during, and after event times. As part of our involvement during the preliminary design stages of the Chase Center, Momentum led the preparation of traffic models that incorporated key elements of the stadium parking area to help assess the anticipated impacts of event day traffic on the surrounding highway network. Thanks to our ability to provide robust and detailed operational car parking models, we were able to assist the design team in understanding potential queues outside the stadium, while also enabling internal stakeholders to better estimate the demand for shuttle services and coaches.

Momentum Transport Consultancy is working with Abellio Greater Anglia to deliver part of their ambitious programme of station renovations. Momentum is going to develop pedestrian models on a number of stations including Wickford, Witham, Bury St Edmunds, Audley End, Hertford East and Stansted Airport.

Most of these stations are within London’s commuter belt and experience tidal commuter flows that require careful balance between the provision of adequate facilities for the best possible travel experience and stations that do not feel empty or over-dimensioned during quieter times. Stansted Airport is different, since it represents the gateway to a major international airport and passengers are mostly visitors and airline passengers, generating different travel patterns, distributed during the day in accordance with flight schedules.

Momentum is developing passengers’ surveys and station models for Greater Anglia, both static and dynamic (using Legion Spaceworks) to assess the performance of stations both in the existing conditions and considering future demand. The key aim of this work is to provide the functional requirements for station redevelopments such as number of ticket gates required, crowding on platform, concourse area and dimension of circulation spaces. Proposals are fully compliant with the Network Rail ‘Station Capacity Planning Guidance’, November 2016.

Momentum Transport Consultancy were appointed by Ocubis in 2013 to provide transport planning and highway design services for the site that previously accommodated the Norwich Union employees sports club and grounds.  The appointment also included the redevelopment of land at Griffin Lane for affordable housing with both sites linked through a common Section 106 agreement.

The main Pinebanks site had the benefit of a planning permission granted by Broadlands District Council for 231 dwellings in June 2013 but it became necessary for Ocubis to vary the access arrangements for the Pinebanks site via a Section 73 application.  It was necessary to apply for the variation of the site access planning condition so that the main housing site could operate through a single access road and not the two access roads for the extant permission where one of these would be difficult to achieve due to a long-term restrictive covenant.

The revised planning permission was achieved in 2015 which enabled a new master plan layout to be developed which Momentum supported with extensive junction capacity modelling and highway design along with further trip generation studies in line with Norfolk County Council requirements.

Momentum is supporting Provencher Roy in the development of the 20-year master plan for the Concordia University campuses in Montreal, to plan for a significant increase in the student population in the coming years. Momentum is assisting the architects and the University by analysing the transportation conditions around the site and developing a transportation strategy to better integrate sustainable transport.

Momentum analysed the issues of internal mobility on campus. This analysis included a thorough diagnostic of pedestrian routes, an assessment of operational needs, as well as an evaluation of the external circulation challenges related to access to both campuses via public and active transport. Based on the results of the sustainable mobility analysis, Momentum is developing planning and design recommendations to improve the experience of students and staff moving to and through the campus, and to facilitate operations without compromising the safety and comfort of pedestrians. Momentum’s assessments will guide the development of both campuses. Our recommendations will enable the University to create spaces that are well connected and can meet the mobility needs of future users, while ensuring harmonious coexistence with surrounding neighbourhoods and integration with current and future projects in the vicinity of the campuses.

Momentum provided full consultancy support to help deliver seven industrial units comprising a total 28,089sqm GEA of flexible industrial use (Class E(g)(iii), Class B2 and B8) with ancillary office space, parking and associated works including creation of service yards, boundary treatments and landscaping.

Due to the location of the site, innovative and complex transport solutions were required to unlock the development to facilitate movements through the site and onwards through the wider highway network. The proposed vehicular access to the site will be primarily via the existing Goat Road access, which has been enhanced to better serve the Jewson’s site and the proposed development site through a robust junction modelling assessment, and the development of a highway design package developed by the Momentum team.

Momentum has also played a pivotal role promoting innovative sustainable solutions to serve the development site, this includes a commitment to provide an improved access to the site for pedestrians and cyclists via Drake Road.

As part of the scheme, Momentum has worked in close collaboration with key stakeholders to develop a new roundabout to replace the existing Goat Road / Carshalton Road (A237) junction. Informed by traffic modelling, the solution was welcomed at the public consultation.

Each unit is proposed to have a provision of car and cycle parking to cater for staff and visitors, in compliance with the standards set out in the London Plan (2021). In total, the proposed development would provide a minimum of 30 short-stay and 66 long-stay cycle parking spaces, and a maximum of 176 car parking spaces.

Following the adoption of its strategic plan in 2019, the Toronto Zoo sought to update its conceptual site plan based on the new directions identified. These include goals for sustainability, environmental conservation, and education. The strategic plan also aims to better integrate the Zoo into its urban environment. Momentum was part of the Mandaworks design team to provide recommendations for improving visitor mobility and operations.

Based on the mapping of the Zoo’s internal traffic movements, the Mandaworks and Momentum teams identified four broad categories of issues:

• Optimise the number of vehicles travelling within the site;
• Plan roads shared between operational vehicles and pedestrian visitors;
• Facilitate visitors’ wayfinding around the site without complicating the signage;
• Deploy multimodal solutions to navigate the site.

Momentum developed a mobility toolkit to help the Zoo better address the four major challenges. Objectives were identified for each challenge, and concrete actions were proposed to meet these objectives. Examples of inspiring projects carried out by zoos, urban parks, and botanical gardens in Canada and internationally were also provided to support the ideas

Momentum was mandated by McGill University to prepare a logistics and waste management study for the Neuro Hospital and the Lyman-Duff Pavilion. The primary objective of the study was to identify potential solutions for relocating the waste management compactors, currently located in the Royal-Victoria Hospital, which will be inaccessible due to the ongoing renovation work for the Royal-Vic project.

The work began with a phase of stakeholder consultation to identify the current logistics processes of each stakeholder and their waste and logistics needs. This information was used to assess the usage of current logistics areas and to evaluate the potential increase in activity at each area. Additionally, vehicle tracking analysis was employed to determine the largest vehicle that can access each area and identify issues with the current site characteristics. A key element studied was the volume of different types of waste generated by the complex and how this is currently managed internally by the university.

Three potential solutions for waste management were proposed, along with a complementary solution for logistics to improve efficiency. These solutions suggested significant changes to the current logistics in terms of frequency, compactor sizes, and the size of collection vehicles, which required further exploration with contractors.

The results of the analysis informed the client about the complexity of their waste and logistics operations and provided actionable solutions to be implemented in the short term once the current logistics zone of the hospital becomes inaccessible.