Economics & Finance
We provide objective, independent analysis to help you make data-driven investment decisions that meet budget objectives, strategic goals and service commitments. We integrate our unique set of economic tools and approaches with engineering and architecture disciplines to define the right alternatives. Our expertise includes services to maximize revenue streams, and secure new, dedicated revenue, to navigate constantly changing federal funding and financing opportunities.
Services
Economic Evaluation and Forecasting
We help our clients to become knowledgeable about your project benefits, economic impacts and investment constraints, and meet long-range objectives with our pioneering economic modeling and analysis. Our approach helps you truly engage in performance-based planning and provides objective measures for prioritizing projects and programs.
Financial Planning
Our team helps in the Identification and screening of funding and financing strategies for capital, operating and maintenance costs. We provide financial modeling and impact analyses of various events and scenarios as they relate to annual budgets.
Funding Source Analysis
We provide assistance and analysis of the availability of new and existing funding sources, from fares to cost allocation policies. We review current sources as well as best practices to enhance funding while maximizing the benefits to internal and external stakeholders.
Grant Preparation and Support
We have developed a successful approach for preparing grant applications, including strategy, evaluation and positioning for federal and state grant and loan opportunities. We can also support and assist with grant preparation and documentation.
Innovative Procurement
Our experience in alternative delivery and procurement methods for complex procurements includes design-build, public-private partnerships (P3) and other delivery methods. We help examine the cost and prices associated with various procurement methods and manage procurement and delivery processes.
Project Finance
We help to identify various sources and types of finance, including federal credit programs.
Regulatory and Policy Analysis
We inform your policy decisions with quantitative business case analysis, economic development analyses, cost recovery, and pricing and regulatory evaluation.
Risk Management Analysis
We help you to determine project risks and risk response strategies within a quantitative and probabilistic framework.
Statistics and Data Analytics
Our team manages your data and unlock the full potential of your information with advanced statistical techniques, data analytics, surveys and models. The data generates likely outcomes with a measured degree of accuracy.