Infrastructure

Building the future of mobility and connectivity

Economic output is directly tied to the ability to move people and goods efficiently and cost-effectively. However, developing—and maintaining—the necessary infrastructure is challenging, with planners and policymakers often balancing complex political, fiscal, social, and environmental trade-offs. Faced with large capital investments and increasingly strained public finances, stakeholders have a difficult choice: optimize an existing asset or build something new.

We combine a deep understanding of individual asset classes—roads, railways, metropolitan transport systems, airports, and seaports—with our industry knowledge and expertise. By drawing on our insights and applying best-practice tools and methodologies, we bring a fresh perspective to complex problems within the transport infrastructure industry.

What we do

Planning, financing, and risk management

Support clients on asset planning and prioritization, financial projections (including demand modeling and operating models), and contracting strategies (including public–private partnerships) to manage risk.

Stakeholder management and project organization

Ensure stakeholders are aligned and project outcomes are mutually beneficial while advising on risk and regulatory management.

Asset design

Balance technical and commercial design considerations and support building capabilities that enable project leaders to make appropriate trade-offs.

Value engineering

Apply design-to-cost and design-to-market principles to maximize the value of infrastructure through proprietary tools and methodologies like engineering trade-off approaches, construction cost benchmarking, and cleansheet analysis.

Procurement strategies

Optimize costs and align the incentives of downstream suppliers and subcontractors through our category consolidation approach and supplier training.

Lean construction

Implement lean construction techniques such as critical path compression, parallel processing, and the last planner system to improve productivity and complete projects on time and on budget.

Commercial excellence

Apply cutting-edge sales and marketing techniques to help clients understand customers, develop pricing tactics to optimize yield, and brainstorm fare and non-fare revenue strategies.

Operational excellence

Balance short- and long-term considerations to minimize maintenance costs once an asset is in operation.

Global Infrastructure Initiative

The Global Infrastructure Initiative (GII) is a community of the world’s senior leaders, committed to the pursuit of smart, resilient, and future-ready infrastructure.

Learn about the Global Infrastructure Initiative See the 10th GII Summit agenda

Examples of our work

Driving growth

Worked with a South American toll operator to design a new organizational structure for its corporate center—redefining roles, applying a shared service model, and developing a five-year strategy to support its future growth goals, all while managing costs.

Reducing costs

Helped a European government agency analyze its road maintenance and finance decisions to determine future funding, with subsequent support of the road authority leading to savings of 15 to 20 percent.

Increasing efficiency

Supported an urban transit system in identifying and implementing cost-efficiency measures in metro and bus operations, as well as reducing its broader administrative and support functions.

Spurring investment

Helped a North American government entity design a new public–private agency to oversee infrastructure investments and public funds to spur private investment in public infrastructure.

Featured capabilities

Rail network model: A proven approach that incorporates the main elements of a rail network to model potential improvements and their associated value and cost.

Global road benchmarking: A powerful analysis tool that allows asset owners to ascertain a benchmark cost for critical components of their project, better positioning them to prevent problems and match best-in-class performance schedules.

Capex value chain creation tools: A set of tools to increase capital project value at all stages of construction, cost control, procurement, and capital project risk assessment.

End-to-end public–private partnership process: A comprehensive process map and suite of tools that helps clients capture the most value for a range of specific topics, including process management and governance.

TCO road maintenance model: A tool that calculates the total cost of ownership (TCO) and optimal maintenance of road surfaces.

Featured experts

Featured insights

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Finding a route to fiscal stability for US transit agencies

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