“ …be today the future that you would wish for in the world”
Mahatma Gandhi

Planning Company Associates’ approach to our work does not fall into any particular category of “technical” services provided by transportation consulting firms. Rather, our team provides overall strategic transportation program review, development, and implementation that bridges both the strategic and technical service areas. As part of our comprehensive approach, our team looks to develop and proffer a comprehensive surface transportation program that not only addresses mobility, access and safety problems for our clients, but also attracts the support of public sector partners because we properly define the larger issue/problem before determining the most strategic and meaningful solution. It is what we mean by “make the problem bigger”.

Planning Company Associates’ strategic services focus on the following principles:

“Make the Problem Bigger” – Strategic transportation problem-solving requires a thorough and accurate understanding of the problem. We urge our clients to view their land use, mobility and access issues in a broader context in order to fully understand their problem and its potential solution-sets.

“Think Regionally, Act Locally” – As an adjunct to the above approach and within the context of understanding the root problem and its solution sets, Planning Company Associates helps our clients solve their local access and mobility problems by contributing to a larger regional solution set.

“Who Are Your Partners?” – Part of identifying the root problem and potential solutions is determining who shares in the desire and is working to solve regional access and mobility problems. In this way, Planning Company Associates provides for a context that naturally leads to the creation of “strategic partnerships” between private sector parties, public and private parties, and many other interests that are working toward mobility and access solutions.

“Control Your Destiny” – It is our view that a broader view leading to a more comprehensive understanding of mobility and access problems regionally lead to better, more attainable, and more sustainable solutions in which many partners will wish to share. We believe that this leads to more, not less, certainty in the process.