Modelling & Net-Zero Scenarios

Bespoke Modelling Tools to Provide Powerful Carbon Insights

City Science’s modelling tools provide high-quality answers to complex, strategic and multi-modal questions, including:

Forecasting the carbon trajectories of major infrastructure schemes and policy decisions
Providing rapid and exhaustive option generation and scenario analysis
Understanding the broader modal picture (e.g. freight, working from home & active travel)
Developing bespoke models from quality-assured open data sources

This includes CADENCE, our award-winning and bespoke modelling tool, providing an evidence-led approach to deliver your decarbonisation goals. It can ingest your existing strategic model to provide vital intelligence, user friendly interfaces and visualisations, to empower stakeholder engagement.

Transport Modelling

Modelling and data science is integral to all of our services. Our data expertise and know-how enables us to respond to your bespoke requirements.

Core Services

Forecasting & Demand Modelling (such as for Cornwall Council and Devon County Council, and working from home propensity modelling for England’s Economic Heartland)
Automatic Model Build (innovative processes to develop calibrated matrices and networks from open data)
Freight & Goods Modelling (such as development of a National Freight Model and Route Scenario Testing)
Quantifying Resilience (such as temporary traffic management for Somerset, Network developing a Network Resilience Modelling Toolkit and Travel Pattern Analytics)
Active Travel Modelling (such as the developing the Walking & Cycling module of the Liverpool City Region Model)
Utilising Microsimulation Modelling for Conventional & Bespoke Requirements (such as option evaluation for Bletchley in Milton Keynes, network optimisation for Oxfordshire and evaluating Mobility As A Service for Cambridgeshire)

Net-Zero Scenarios & Pathways

The majority of local authorities have declared a climate emergency and are committed to taking action to reduce local carbon emissions. Our tools support councils to develop their net zero strategies and plans.

Core services

Helping local authorities understand their local transport emissions (such as for Mendip District Council)
Assessing the impact of interventions for Local Authorities (such as through our Transport Decarbonisation Tool developed for the Department for Transport and our publication of Net-Zero Planning for the Royal Town Planning Institute)
Developing routes to net zero (such as for England’s Economic Heartland Decarbonisation Strategy)
Facilitating Climate Change & Transport Decarbonisation Workshops (such as for Somerset County Council and our 2021 Transport Decarbonisation Webinar Series)