Our Thinking

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 has been commissioned by the National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) to conduct a visitor movement study of its Prince’s Mansion site in central Copenhagen.

Movement Strategies has been appointed as a people movement specialist in a team led by Kathryn Gustafson from Gustafson Porter and Bowman, to develop new design proposals for the wider Eiffel Tower site in Paris.

Movement Strategies are delighted to announce Dr Steve Gwynne will be joining the team from 29th October.

Movement Strategies are delighted to have advised on crowd movement for Allianz Riviera Stadium in Nice, a multi-use stadium with a capacity of 36,000, used mainly for football.

Managing Director, Simon Babes, has been appointed to the Railway Industry Association (RIA) Board. Simon joins the Board, which includes Chief Executives and Senior Directors from across the rail industry, as Chair of the SME Group where he leads activities promoting the role of RIA’s small and medium sized members.

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.

The unlit firework waits patiently in its alloted place on the field, awaiting it’s moment of glory when it shoots into the night sky competing for space with other fireworks in a dazzling array, then dissipating into the darkness. Perhaps that’s stretching the metaphor of crowd studies too far, but my weekend visit to the Wimbledon Park display wasn’t too disimilar to wholly negate the comparison.

Travelling, whether for work or for pleasure provides an opportunity to appreciate other cultures and experience life in other cities and to benchmark these against cities you know well.

An electrical fire on a Bakerloo line train this morning raises a question about the safety and the extent to which the Bakerloo line rolling stock remains fit for purpose.

Wimbledon, known for the strawberries and cream, Pimm’s, crowds, celebrities like Andy Murray, Tim Henman, and more... has one more phenomenon that stands out from the rest of the experience, which is the queuing.