Risk Solutions has developed a comprehensive Safety Risk Model that analyses the risks to road users, road workers and Traffic Officers associated with the operation, maintenance and improvement of the Strategic Road Network (SRN) in England. The work involves sophisticated data analytics and visualisation of complex road safety risk.
Who We Work With
In reality organisations need to identify and respond to new challenges quickly and appropriately. Businesses that have considered their strategic options carefully, and the risks to achieving them, will outperform their competitors.
Public sector organisations face different challenges, trying to balance competing policy priorities and avoiding the risks of over-regulation.
Whatever the challenges facing you, Risk Solutions will help you make better decisions, confident in the knowledge that, when all the options have been considered, nothing has been left to chance.
WSP
WSP is a worldwide, leading consultancy and engineering company working across Transport and Infrastructure, Property and Buildings, Environment and Energy, and Industry and Resources. Risk Solutions has had a 10-year partnership with WSP working on a range of innovation and research projects, mainly in the transport sector. We choose to work with WSP because of their breadth of expertise in engineering and operations across a wide range of clients and sectors we hold in common. We also find that they share our ethos of high quality, intelligent and responsive delivery.
Development of a Network Performance Model
The network performance model (NPM) was developed for Highways England by Risk Solutions. It is a software model that supports analysis of traffic performance on the strategic road network (SRN). It is used by the HA national intelligence unit (NIU) to support their analysis of network performance.
Highways England uses this type of analysis to characterise the past performance of its roads, as well as to project scenarios about its expected future performance given various road investment strategies.
Drug Driving evaluation
Our evaluation of the first year of operation of the drug driving legislation introduced in 2015 has been published by the Department for Transport.
Longer Semi-Trailer Trial
GB Longer Semi-trailer Trial (LST): UPDATE 10 May 2023
DfT Announces new regulations for widespead use of LSTs and end date for trial
Understanding the Impact of Interacting Risks
Climate change affects many sectors, but the way that climate change risks interact between sectors is not well understood. Risk Solutions are working with climate resilience experts from WSP, ADAS and UCL, helping the Climate Change Committee (CCC) better understand how climate related risks interact and how the effects of risks cascading through systems can affect impacts. The study represents an important new source of evidence for the UK governments next climate change risk assessment.
Value for money decision support tool for HS2
HS2 Ltd faces many design decisions in the delivery of high speed rail in the UK. Each design decision has cost implications, and crucially, implications for delivery of benefits. WSP and Risk Solutions have created a whole life value tool for HS2. HS2 and ITS contractors are now using the tool to measure and compare the value of various options, and TO inform design decisions to ensure the benefits of HS2 are realised.
The Tavistock Institute (TIHR)
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. It was established as a not for profit organisation with charitable purpose in 1947 and has a worldwide reputation as a leading centre of expertise in the areas of human relations and group dynamics. The Institute is engaged with evaluation and action research, organisational development and change consultancy, executive coaching and professional development, all in service of supporting sustainable change and ongoing learning. We choose to work with TIHR because of their world leading skills and insights. In addition to partnering with TIHR on consulting work, we also work closely with them as members of CECAN.
Heat Networks Investment Project
Risk Solutions and partners are delivering a multi-wave process and impact evaluation of BEIS’ Heat Networks investment project, which aims to help scale up the market for heat networks in the UK by investing £320m in individual projects across England and Wales.
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus
The Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN), is a £3m research centre hosted by the University of Surrey, which is working to transform the practice of policy appraisal and evaluation in Nexus areas, to make it fit for a complex world.
The RAND Corporation
RAND Europe - part of the worldwide RAND Corporation - is a not for profit research institute that helps to improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
London Economics
London Economics is one of Europe’s leading specialist public policy and economics consultancies with a special interest and reputation in behavioural economics.
Heat Networks Investment Project
Risk Solutions and partners are delivering a multi-wave process and impact evaluation of BEIS’ Heat Networks investment project, which aims to help scale up the market for heat networks in the UK by investing £320m in individual projects across England and Wales.
Live Economics
Live Economics applies economic principles and insights to support decision making and evaluation across a wide range of sectors using the latest techniques and analysis methods.
City, University of London
City's Department of Computer Science is at the forefront of international excellence and leadership in education and research for the computer science professions. City has been at the leading edge of computer science in the UK for six decades; from laying the groundwork for the foundation of the British Computer Society and awarding some of the country’s first Computer Science degrees, to the vibrant, modern department that exists today.
The University of Surrey
The Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, is a multidisciplinary centre bringing together the social sciences, software engineering and agent-based modelling to promote and support the use of social simulation in research in the human sciences.
Wilson Sherriff
Wilson Sherriff, founded in 2000, are acknowledged experts and thought leaders in both face-to-face and virtual facilitation. They work with teams and organisations in national and local government, charities, not for profit organisations, and private companies large and small, to help them work together more effectively to meet their goals.
Building the Right Team
Beyond these key partners we are skilled at identifying and drawing together teams with the specific expertise, sector or domain-based experience necessary, together with the right delivery and client-focused ethos to deliver to specific briefs.