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November 6, 2018

Students who have undertaken the CDRC programme at Movement Strategies have won awards consecutively for the past 3 years

Over the past 3 years we have collaborated with the Consumer Data Research Centre’s (CDRC) MSc dissertation programme, providing University students with the opportunity to conduct research with one of our proprietary data sets.

October 30, 2018

Movement Strategies contributed to the latest edition of the Green Guide

For the past year, we have been sharing our technical expertise and experience as an input to the drafting process of the 6th edition of the Guide to Safety at Sports Ground.

October 29, 2018

Multiplex has appointed Movement Strategies to develop a vertical circulation strategy for 22 Bishopsgate

We have been appointed to develop a vertical circulation strategy for the peak construction phases for 22 Bishopsgate, London’s latest skyscraper.

October 28, 2018

Movement Strategies is expanding

To service our growing pipeline of work we’ve significantly grown our team in the last 4 months, across both the Movement Consulting and Movement Analytics teams.

October 24, 2018

Movement Strategies has been commissioned by the National Museum of Denmark

Movement Strategies has been commissioned by the National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) to conduct a visitor movement study of its Prince’s Mansion site in central Copenhagen.

October 2, 2018

Dr Steve Gwynne joins Movement Strategies

Movement Strategies are delighted to announce Dr Steve Gwynne will be joining the team from 29th October.

April 26, 2018

Managing Director, Simon Babes joins RIA Board as SME representative

Managing Director, Simon Babes, has been appointed to the Railway Industry Association (RIA) Board. Simon joins the Board, which includes Chief Executives and Senior Directors from across the rail industry, as Chair of the SME Group where he leads activities promoting the role of RIA’s small and medium sized members.

February 1, 2018

Movement Strategies to provide People Movement advice for Greenshaw High School

We have been commissioned by Greenshaw High School to analyse the circulation of students throughout the school to help them to plan for the movement of students between classes.

February 1, 2018

Movement Strategies visit Taiwan

Simon Babes, Movement Strategies’ Managing Director joined a UK Rail Delegation, led by Lord Faulkner, the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Taiwan, to Taipei on 29 and 30 January 2018. The 2 day Trade Mission included meetings with the Minister of Transport and Communications (MOTC), Department of Rapid Transit Systems of Taipei City, Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, other City Metro authorities, Taiwan Railway Administration and the Bureau of High Speed Rail.

February 1, 2018

Meet our new team

We are pleased to announce recent additions to our team.

Blogs

May 22, 2024

Deportes y Eventos

Nuestro equipo ha desarrollado e implementado estrategias de flujos de multitudes en algunos los recintos más importantes y reconocidos del mundo, desde estadios y arenas a grandes eventos y festivales. Llevamos casi 20 años trabajando con arquitectos, ingenieros, dueños y organizadores de eventos, en la creación de un ambiente seguro y una experiencia positiva para los asistentes y/o participantes. Nuestro asesoramiento en el flujo de multitudes ayuda a recintos y eventos a crear experiencias memorables y seguras, al tiempo que maximizamos el aforo, la flexibilidad de la operativa y el rendimiento comercial.

Research

May 4, 2017

Evacuation planning for a safe Crossrail

With security at unprecedented levels, people movement and security experts Simon Babes and Fathi Tarada review the lessons learned from the February firebomb attack on the Hong Kong MTR.

May 2, 2017

Safe standing and controlled crowding

Kat Steinberg, Associate Director for Sports + Events at Movement Strategies, explains how standing in stadia has evolved, and underlines the value of gathering and analysing crowd event data.

March 15, 2017

What if data privacy wasn't an issue?

Smart cities run on data to provide and refine services, which enhance the quality of citizens' lives, but personal privacy may be infringed.

February 14, 2017

Security Screening

The increased threat to stadia and other crowded places requires a holistic evidence-based approach to enhance the security screening process. The recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Nice, Berlin and Istanbul emphasise a terrorist focus on crowded places in Europe, increasingly adopting methods used and refined elsewhere around the world.

February 7, 2017

Unlocking the power of Big Data

The effective deployment of big data analytics has the potential to redefine how businesses target and interact with consumers and key stakeholders.

February 3, 2017

The story behind the Tube strike – a new era of 'smart travel' beckons

Next week’s proposed strike action is yet again set to cause travel misery across the capital. However, amidst the inevitable swathe of discontent as commuters take to crowded buses, bikes, and hit the pavement in a desperate bid to make it into the office, we should take this opportunity to look at the bigger picture.

January 9, 2017

London has fallen - as tube strike travel chaos hits again, what's the solution?

As UK plc begins to count the economic impact of today’s tube strike, questions of how we got to a place where stations are being evacuated and queues snake round some of Europe’s largest stations and when - not if - this will happen again, must be asked.