Normalising cycling

In Ramboll, we help cities harvest the benefits of cycling by planning and designing for cycling.

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Walking and cycling data study

Data on walking and cycling is important for cities in order to set goals and targets, create the policies needed to reach these goals, to track progress, make decisions and prioritize about investments in infrastructure and planning measures that support walking and cycling.

But unlike vehicle, data on pedestrians and cyclists is often not systematically collected, has limitations and can be difficult to compare and benchmark.

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Niko Palo
Planning Manager

Niko is a planning manager at Ramboll. He is leading Ramboll’s service line of cycling. He is an international expert on planning infrastructure of bicycle traffic. He specialises in traffic and street planning, network planning, way-finding and writing planning manuals.

Frida Andersson
Traffic Planner

Frida  is a traffic planner, engineer and cycling enthusiast in Norway. She has special expertise in planning for bicycling and walking, as well as ITS and traffic signalling. Her daily work includes providing input to design. She excels at seeing holistic solutions for all street users.

Torsten Perner
Planning Manager

Torsten is a planning manager at Ramboll in Germany. After working for a German company in Denmark to introduce tramway operation he is now Ramboll’s project manager for several bicycle projects in Germany as an integrated part of sustainable urban mobility. 

James Wiley
Planning Manager

James is a strategic transport planner based in our Sydney team. His experience has been developed across numerous geographies and covers transport strategy and frameworks, masterplanning through to corridor and siting studies. With a keen interest in sustainable mobility solutions, James is keen to promote the integration of active transport into the mix.  

Ben Smith
Lead Transport Consultant

Ben is an urban and transport planner working in Singapore and APAC, with a keen focus on improving the experience of cities through inviting active travel. Previously based in the UK, Ben is well versed in delivering solutions that work within the local context and has delivered an array of car-lite, cycling-friendly projects from the strategic and conceptual level all the way to detailed planning and design.

Harpreet Kaur Bajaj
Principal Transport Economist

Harpreet Bajaj has varied experience in development of macro-economic and traffic demand forecasts for transport facilities, project appraisals including revenue assessment and cost-benefit analysis. Harpreet has been part of the service line focused on sustainable mobility solutions with active mobility forming an integral part. She is keen to promote cycling in India as active mobility option with focus on gender issues.  

Hampus Ekblad
Traffic planner

Hampus is a traffic planner, engineer and avid cyclist in Sweden. He has worked with cycling on many different levels as a researcher, public official and planner. Main areas of focus is infrastructure design and he also has broad knowledge of traffic safety for vulnerable road users.

Jacob Deichmann 
Chief consultant, urban designer

Over a career spanning more than 25 years, Jacob has been involved in cycling projects in all scales, ranging from network planning over development of road standards and bike parking projects to concept and detail designs of bicycle infrastructure projects such as the iconic Bicycle Snake in Copenhagen.

Thaddaeus O'Higgins
Associate

Thad is a client focused transport planning professional with over 20 years of experience. Focusing on cycling, Thad specializes in ensuring cycling and active travel generally are put first in any masterplan or scheme development proposals he is working on, by articulating the substantial benefits of active travel (e.g. carbon, energy, health and community) against the often minimal infrastructure costs and operational change required to enable active travel.

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Smart Mobility

Moving more people, longer distances, to where they work, shop, and live stresses our transportation systems, leads to congestion, poor air quality and contributes to global warming. There is a need to rethink how we design our cities and how we can shift to low-carbon modes of transportation like trains, buses and bicycles. Today’s mobility challenges need to be solved by a holistic approach integrating urban planning, all modes of transport and utilizes digitalization. Shifting the focus from the vehicles to the people

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About Ramboll

Ramboll is a leading engineering, architecture and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. Ramboll employs 16,500 people globally. We are present in 35 countries and combine local experience with a global knowledge-base, constantly striving to achieve inspiring and exacting solutions that make a genuine difference to our clients, end-users, and society at large. Our Smart Mobility experts as well as our digital tools enable public authorities, operators and suppliers to make informed decisions when planning and operating sustainable mobility systems. Our foundation is holistic planning around walking, cycling, public transport, and cars, as well as new services and modes such as Micro-Mobility, Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), e-mobility, autonomous vehicles, strategic parking, and digital solutions that enables more sustainable movement of people and goods.