Monday, January 18 2010
Transport planner JMP has won its latest significant commission under a major masterplanning framework agreement aimed at revitalising many town and city centres throughout Northern Ireland.
The latest commission is to prepare a paramics microsimulation model of Bangor, a commuter suburb of Belfast, to cover the town centre road network and key radial routes into Bangor.
It will subsequently be used by the Northern Ireland Department for Social Development (DSD) and other transport consultants in the assessment of major regeneration proposals in the town.
The Bangor commission follows on from a number of microsimulation projects that JMP has won in Northern Ireland recently as part of a masterplanning team led by The Paul Hogarth Company, including traffic modelling commissions in Armagh, Coleraine and Lisburn.
The Lisburn study is a significant body of work. JMP is tasked to develop a transport strategy to serve the significant growth aspirations of this emerging city, including its relationship to an extending out-of-town retail development that will become the largest retail complex in Northern Ireland.