Environmental and Planning Services to Transport

Legislation on environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has helped integrate environmental issues into transport investment decision-making. A greater understanding of the links between land use and transport planning has helped planning authorities and developers to consider the environment earlier in the development of their plans, strategies and projects.

However, the increasingly public debate on climate change is now once again forcing all of us to consider the environmental implications of our travel and transport needs, both in terms of mitigating the impact of transport on the environment and enabling the infrastructure to adapt to changing weather events.

Scott Wilson has an established track record of undertaking EIAs for a variety of transport schemes. The EIAs range from highways, to airports to large development proposals with substantial integrated transport elements. We also helped pioneer the development of SEA in the UK having undertaken SEAs of Local Transport Plans, Multi Modal Studies, Trans European Networks and Regional Economic Strategies.

We also provide advice on transport policy through research projects such as the public understanding of sustainable transport and the sustainability of rail based park and ride.

Scott Wilson takes an integrated approach to its consultancy advice. Our environmental planners work side by side with our engineers, land use and transport planners to understand the full range of strengths and weaknesses of a proposal. We also work across the policy planning hierarchy, providing advice on the policy context, or on large complex multimodal infrastructure schemes through to local schemes involving only one mode of transport.

We also have a number of support services such as a specialist stakeholder consultation team, economists and designers of noise mitigation measures who can add value to the environmental service we provide.