Our Thinking

Movement Strategies has launched a Software as a Service (SaaS) product, Movement Insights, at the Retail Expo 2019 which provides actionable insights via a web-based dashboard. The product ingests a range of rich data sets and reports insights at an aggregated level in line with data privacy guidelines and regulations, including GDPR.

We are delighted to be part of the Gustafson Porter + Bowman led team announced recently by the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, as the winners of a design competition [Site Tour Eiffel: Découvrir/Approcher/Visiter] for the development of the Eiffel Tower site in advance of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Our team will provide analysis and advice to ensure a well-managed, safe and enjoyable crowd experience.

We will be supporting the design team to ensure the new headquarters are integrated with the surrounding urban network, providing a seamless experience for those using the site.

A recent article by the BBC draws on the subject of women's toilets being an issue for the West End Theatres. We have recently supported the refurbishment and sanitary enhancement plans for a premier theatre in the West End.

Over the past 3 years we have collaborated with the Consumer Data Research Centre’s (CDRC) MSc dissertation programme, providing University students with the opportunity to conduct research with one of our proprietary data sets.

For the past year, we have been sharing our technical expertise and experience as an input to the drafting process of the 6th edition of the Guide to Safety at Sports Ground.

We have been appointed to develop a vertical circulation strategy for the peak construction phases for 22 Bishopsgate, London’s latest skyscraper.

To service our growing pipeline of work we’ve significantly grown our team in the last 4 months, across both the Movement Consulting and Movement Analytics teams.

Movement Strategies launched its Research and Development initiative: Think Better, In Practice and In Theory on April 30th.

A key part of building design is to assess the effectiveness of design elements in meeting a stated performance objective – whether they do the thing we want them to do.

People move in and around buildings during emergency and non-emergency scenarios. Whether it is walking to the check out in a supermarket or descending a staircase in response to a fire alarm, people move to achieve a goal of some sort. Emergency and non-emergency scenarios are not unrelated: they are instead highly-coupled.

Dan Simpson was a summer Intern Technician at Movement Strategies, a 4th year MORSE student at the University of Warwick and visited Reading Festival as a guest of Festival Republic.

As cities grow and public areas become more popular and inevitably busier, how can we ensure the quality and enjoyability of these spaces is maintained?

For many workers commuting into, or even within London, the daily commute represents a stressful time. Research done by Office for National Statistics in 2014 concluded that “Holding all else equal, commuters have lower life satisfaction, a lower sense that their daily activities are worthwhile, lower levels of happiness and higher anxiety on average than non-commuters.”(1).

Our inboxes are beginning to overflow with emails from companies seeking our confirmation that we would like to remain contactable via email, phone and post. This correspondence will continue as we approach 25 May 2018, the implementation date of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The Winter Olympics 2018 is here. An opportunity for us all to discover new ways to descend mountains with great speed, and for those of us in the UK to rekindle our love of the Skeleton – travelling down a bobsleigh run on little more than a tea-tray at close to 80km/hr.

In the aftermath of the Chancellor’s budget, much of the focus is given to the economic forecasts underpinning the proposed (and cutting of!) public expenditure. The traditional indices used to measure these forecasts are numerous: employment, retail sales, housing starts, industrial output, CPI and GDP are but a few examples. One less highly featured is travel demand.