• Analyzing and assessing issues, problems, and approaches.
  
  
• Designing workable, innovative and effective strategies to address them.
  
  
• Building public support for these strategies.

The firm works:

• Regionally and locally in the U.S.
  
  
  • With state and local governments and other stakeholders to define regional and climate-friendly approaches to sustainable transportation that may serve as models for other regions and the national government
    
    
• Nationally
  
  
  • With major stakeholders and federal agencies to ensure that national transportation, energy, clean air and climate policies promote sustainable transportation strategies; and to encourage and reward communities that adopt sustainable transportation strategies to address urban problems including air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
    
    
• Internationally
  
  
  • With local governments and stakeholders in developing countries, in collaboration with international agencies, to support the development of more and better-quality urban sustainable transportation projects, including for the Global Environmental Facility

Internationally

Long-term transportation options for Guayaquil, Ecuador

Conducted for the municipal government of Guayaquil, the BBG Group and another consulting firm developed a proposal for a "PDF-B" grant within the Global Environmental Facility. The grant will more fully develop long term transportation options for the city to complement investments already planned for Bus Rapid Transit. These include the concentration of development in the city center and other city "sub-centers", restrictions on private vehicle use in the central city, and the establishment of parking facilities near the downtown and a "circulator" to bring individuals from the parking facilities to the central city.

Major transportation obstacles facing Quito, Ecuador

Conducted for the Inter-American Development Bank, the BBG Group identified major obstacles, including land-use problems, that are impeding realization of an integrated transportation system in the city with a minimum of congestion and air pollution. The firm identified opportunities for the IDB to assist the city in addressing these obstacles. 

Opportunities for sustainable transportation in medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean

For the Inter-American Development Bank, the BBG Group assessed the lessons learned from successful sustainable transportation programs in such innovative cities as Curitiba, Brazil and Bogotá, Colombia, and how they can be applied to other cities in the region. Based on the experiences of these cities, BBG developed a set of criteria to measure how a city is in progressing on sustainable transportation. In addition, the project evaluated more than 50 cities, and identified seven as most prepared to advance in sustainable transportation implementation. View Report >>

Short-term opportunities to improve transportation in Lima, Peru

On behalf of USAID, the BBG Group's partner, Deborah Bleviss identified a set of short-term strategies to improve transportation quality and complement public transportation and non-motorized transportation activities that the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Global Environmental Facility are financing. The BBG Group's recommended strategies included capacity-building for public transportation companies; building bicycle "consciousness" in the city; options to reduce traffic congestion; and public outreach and education.