Clear, evidence-based advice to support better investment decisions
Good business cases turn complex problems into clear investment decisions. We help clients define the case for change, assess options and build robust evidence for investment in transport and urban development.
Our team has led complete business cases and provided specialist inputs to projects across Aotearoa New Zealand, working with local and central government agencies from early strategic thinking through to detailed economic assessment and funding applications.
We work across programme, indicative, detailed and single-stage business cases. We also right-size the business-case process to the scale and complexity of each project, maintaining a robust, evidence-based approach without unnecessary work.
We can lead the business-case process from the outset or contribute specialist expertise at key stages. Our multidisciplinary team brings together strategy, economics, transport planning, design and analysis, allowing us to develop the evidence needed to support sound investment decisions.
Our experience spans rapid transit, walking, cycling, street and city-centre improvements, traffic circulation, wayfinding and other transport investments. Across these projects, we focus on developing practical, proportionate business cases that clearly connect investment decisions with the outcomes communities need.
Our business case services are:
- Point of Entry and business-case scoping
- Strategic case development
- Investment logic mapping and workshop facilitation
- Evidence collection and analysis
- Options development and assessment
- Concept development and design
- Economic evaluation and benefit–cost analysis
- Funding applications
- Business-case writing and review
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Team
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Shane Martin
Principal Economist -
Pippa Mitchell
Managing Director -
Rachel Lees-Green
Senior Consultant -
Victoria Heald