As an Independent Technical Evaluator, our core responsibility is to provide technical assurance of business cases seeking funding for schemes. These schemes cover a wide range of policy areas including, transport, skills, enterprise zones, housing and commercial development, and environmental mitigation.

As part of the ‘Fourth Package’ of European railway legislation, the EU Agency for Railways (EUAR) was given a new role in safety certification of railway operators and systems. EUAR needed to develop effective arrangements for this, together with a charging system that was fair but which covered its costs. 

Transport for London (TfL) uses Willingness-to-Pay as a measure of the benefits customers receive from a wide range of service and infrastructure attributes. The values must be kept up to date, and values for new attributes estimated as the need arises.

In 2012, West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) successfully used our Urban Dynamic Model (UDM) to win £1bn funding for its Transport Investment Fund, designed to boost the West Yorkshire economy by improving connectivity between employers and their workforce, customers and suppliers.

Merseytravel had been a long-term user of our Urban Dynamic Model (UDM), having first used it in 2006 to support the development of their Local Transport Plan.

Working with Rail North, Transport for the North and stakeholders from across the North of England, our role was to produce an updated Long Term Rail Strategy that could be subject public consultation alongside Transport for the North’s wider Strategic Transport Plan.

The National Infrastructure Commission appointed Steer to undertake a study to inform them on the impact that different patterns of spatial development to 2050 might have on the performance, capacity and sustainability of the strategic road network, other primary routes and national rail network within the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford Corridor, and between this corridor and other destinations.