Intermodal

LeighFisher is a global, multi-modal and interdisciplinary practice delivering system-based solutions leveraging all surface transportation modes, including highways and toll roads, mass transit and intercity passenger and freight rail. The common element to the intermodal practice is a focus on the passengers and goods that move from their points of origin to their destinations. Whether the client is the public sector or a private concern, the criteria for designing and evaluating solutions include the cost, time, service level, reliability and sustainability of the project and/or operations.

We have extensive experience in analyzing actual and forecast passenger travel demand as well as the movement of goods through the supply chain. We use these projections, together with analyses of available capacity, to help the public sector better plan and prioritize future investments as well as to assess potential markets created by the enhanced infrastructure.

These efforts work best when they consider all potential modes and are coordinated across modal lines and authority or agency lines. LeighFisher, for example, has completed projects that analyzed future travel demand for metropolitan, intercity, national and international transportation against available capacity to serve that demand. One reason analysis involved assessments of highway, transit, commuter rail, intercity rail and aviation networks to determine if a region would have the available infrastructure it required 20 years into the future. We have completed similar analyses for private clients with goods movement, including for surface transportation and connecting to ports and airports.

LeighFisher has completed funding and financial plans for public and private clients that include alternatives for funding intermodal infrastructure projects that include public grants, loan guarantees and tax subsidies as well as monies generated from users, including fares and tolls.