Gort Town Centre
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
The Gort Town Centre Masterplan forms part of County Galway’s Town Centre First programme, responding to long-standing challenges of traffic dominance and parking pressure. The project reimagines Gort’s core through public realm enhancements that create a safer, more accessible and people-focused town centre.
Our work
Momentum provided transport advice to inform the design and delivery of the Gort Town Centre Masterplan. Our input covered parking strategy, servicing, cycling facilities and road layout, helping to balance reduced traffic dominance with continued access for businesses while supporting a safer, more attractive and sustainable town centre.
Client outcomes
Momentum helped the client achieve a deliverable, policy-aligned masterplan by resolving transport challenges early. Our advice reduced risk, avoided abortive redesign, and balanced access, parking and public realm ambitions. This saved time and cost while delivering a safer, more accessible and people-focused town centre.
Wadi Namar Masterplan
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
Momentum supported Gillespies in the preparation of its Wadi Namar competition entry in Riyadh, creating a pre-concept masterplan for the park.
Our work
Momentum produced a mobility vision for the masterplan, which involved setting out the overall transport strategies, including metro, BRT, pedestrian, vehicle, service, logistics, emergency services and parking.
Momentum also assessed the mobility of all users and transport modes within and around the park, making sure appropriate connections around the Wadi and site are put into place.
Client outcomes
Calculations to determine the capacity of the park and car parking requirements have been undertaken to determine the best use of space on site. Our engineering team supported the design team led by Gillespies in an initial trip generation, calculating (based on Saudi Arabia planning and highway design manuals) the expected demand and capacity of the road network, and defining the number of lanes, typical sections, and key junction concept layouts for further study as part of the design development.
Wadi Hanifa
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
The new Wadi Hanifa Sports Boulevard is a landmark 135km scheme featuring high-quality, attractive and fully-segregated routes for pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians, connecting Wadi Hanifah in the west to Wadi Al Sulay in the East. It’s seen as an important contributor to the Saudi Vision 2030 – to make Riyadh one of the most liveable cities in the world.
Our work
Momentum led on highways detailed design and as-built proposals on the Sports Boulevard, with aspects including surfacing, footways, signage and markings. We adhered to Saudi and Diriyah-specific design standards, and worked efficiently and responsively to demanding circumstances with the contractor already on site constructing sections of the scheme.
Client outcomes
Through precise design development and as-built validation, we achieved the project aims in providing end-to-end mobility and high-quality outputs on this innovative project. We helped to demonstrate how movement-led public realm can both connect different places and also become a destination in its own right in providing spaces where people will gather – to picnic, play and reconnect with nature and each other.
Project North Pole
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
Developed in four distinct phases, Momentum provided engineering, modelling, planning, and GIS/Cartographic support to help devise a comprehensive transport solution for this new urban development.
Our work
A primary objective of the scheme was to establish a new paradigm for movement and travel in KSA by shifting away from its current heavy reliance on cars. To achieve this, the team introduced a groundbreaking multi-timed city approach. This innovative strategy proposed a package of sustainable transport options that embodied the transport vision adopted for North Pole. The aim was to strike a harmonious balance between the significance and function of various types of journeys, spanning from one minute to one hour.
Client outcomes
Throughout the project, a suite of transport solutions was meticulously presented across five presentation sessions and two full submissions. These encompassed crucial aspects such as trip generation, parking, delivery and servicing, road
hierarchy, rail stations and stops, engineering of junctions, interchanges, and sections, as well as bus strategies, micromobility and active transport. The collective effort of the transport team resulted in a comprehensive and forward-thinking transport strategy that aligned seamlessly with the overall vision for Project North Pole, aiming to pave the way for a more sustainable and efficient urban landscape.
Manchester Central
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Project context
The VIADUX 2 residential and hotel mixed-use tower is proposed to be developed on Manchester Central Convention Complex servicing yard, reducing logistics space and impacting events build and break operations.
Our work
Momentum reviewed the VIADUX 2 proposals and modelled the impact of reduced servicing yard capacity on Manchester Central’s busiest events. Using build and break data, we assessed operational risks and reviewed the S278 highway design and LinSig model, identifying mitigation measures to ensure the venue remains fully functional at VIADUX 2’s opening.
Client outcomes
Momentum enabled Manchester Central to make a decision on certain aspects of its future operations in regards to traffic management as well as contributing to the VIADUX 2 planning application decision.
Gilles Marceau Building
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
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.
Markets & Projects
Strategy and Advisory
“The transport sector is the biggest contributor of carbon emissions in the UK. While emissions from energy supply have fallen by 60% since 1990, emissions from transport have so far fallen by just 2%. The government has committed to a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but there is understandable concern that the challenging progress with transport will fail to meet this target.”
Momentum works with public and private clients, such as local authorities, councils, commercial developers and architects, to develop transport strategies from initial feasibility through to detailed implementation.
These sustainable strategies look at making best use of the available land and encouraging the use of public and active transport. We believe these are key elements of successful communities – allowing access to jobs, education, housing and social inclusion opportunities. Our public transport work for local authorities includes changes to transport networks to support the delivery of projects, whether service improvements or diversions and suspensions during construction.
We devise mobility and freight solutions that support the resilience of urban spaces including micromobility and innovative urban logistics such as consolidation and ‘first & last mile’ strategies.
For our clients, this means that Momentum can work with you to develop more efficient and sustainable transport strategies, reduce your organisation’s transport carbon footprint, positively respond to ESG requirements and to help make better use of your existing infrastructure for servicing, mobility and permeability.
Our team has completed and delivered a substantial breadth and depth of transport strategies for our clients. We have introduced cargo bike deliveries to the Museum of London, recommended micromobility strategies, including e bikes and eScooters, reduced car parking demand across the UK, and enabled highly-efficient freight operations to minimise space requirements and improve public realm.
