Transport, mobility & connectivity planning
Movement infrastructure is the most durable thing built into a town, and often the most damaging. An expressway, a rail corridor or an arterial through a main street sets what is possible for decades — and can be revisited.
The work spans two directions: making a movement system serve a place better, and using investment in that system as a catalyst for development, town centre revitalisation and public-realm quality rather than treating it as a purely engineering exercise.
Problems this addresses
- Infrastructure corridors acting as barriers within the urban fabric rather than as connectors
- Growing freight demand and fragmented regional movement systems in an agricultural or logistics corridor
- A town centre whose main street is doing the job of a regional through-route
- Development that depends on multimodal access it does not yet have
- Non-motorised transport treated as an afterthought to a road project
Who this is for
- Municipalities and provincial or regional authorities
- Transport and infrastructure project teams needing the spatial and urban design layer
- Developers whose sites depend on access and connectivity
- Town centre partnerships facing a through-traffic problem
What 34 Degrees Design contributes
Transport and NMT network analysis, TOD and multimodal connectivity strategy, infrastructure retrofit and air-rights concepts, arterial and bypass restructuring, streetscape and sectional design, and the strategic frameworks and visual material used to argue for them.
Project evidence
- Schiphol Aerocity Masterplan
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A long-range aerotropolis vision and strategic framework for a mixed-use development precinct adjacent to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, exploring airport-linked urbanism, future mobility, innovation economies and metropolitan growth.
- Linking the Lake: Downtown Rail-Cap Thesis
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A transit-oriented urban design framework for reconnecting downtown Toronto with its waterfront across the Gardiner Expressway, Lake Shore Boulevard and the CN rail corridor.
- Breede Valley Revitalisation Initiatives
Worcester & Rawsonville, Western Cape, South Africa
A series of town centre revitalisation and public-realm initiatives in Worcester and Rawsonville — strengthening historic main streets, civic space, pedestrian environments and local economic activity.
- Breede Valley Transportation Framework
Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa
A conceptual integrated transport and regional mobility framework for the Breede Valley, addressing freight demand, arterial restructuring, bypass planning and public transport in one of the Western Cape’s key agricultural and logistics corridors.