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Jacobs Consultancy's Transport Practice employs over 300 full-time staff operating from offices in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Jacobs Consultancy provides transport planning and management consultancy services in the aviation, ports and shipping, rail, and surface transportation sectors.

Providing More to Our Clients
We became part of Jacobs Consultancy to strengthen our ability to meet the evolving needs of our airport clients--to allow us to provide more local support to clients and to strengthen and broaden our range of services. This vision is now being realized. We have expanded geographically and strengthened our senior team by the addition of several industry-leading airport consultants. In addition, we have increased our research and development investments to provide new or enhanced services to our clients.

An Unbroken Thread Spanning over 60 Years
We recognize that Jacobs Consultancy inherits a proud reputation for providing objective consulting services. Through several corporate ownerships and brand transitions since 1946, we have retained our passion for consulting, for innovation, and for providing enduring results for our clients. We will continuously strive to enhance that reputation and provide the highest standards of service to our clients. We are proud and delighted to introduce you to our company, our people and our capabilities.

Our Company
Jacobs Consultancy provides a full range of industry-leading, technically superior business and planning advisory services to meet the evolving needs of of the aviation industry.

The success of our company is built on three enduring commitments:

  • To our clients - We believe that we can best help our clients by developing and sustaining enduring relationships, based on personal service and our demonstrated ability to help them solve their problems and achieve their goals. In addition, we have expanded our office network across North America, which means that our consultants are located closer to our clients, with the potential to enhance our responsiveness and value to you.
  • To the airport industry - We are committed exclusively to advancing the state of the airport industry, working for airport sponsors, airlines, as well as governmental and private entities to solve the most challenging problems facing airports worldwide.
  • To an integrated, full-service practice - We have built our practice around the concept of combining demand-based facility planning with creative business and financial planning to deliver technically superior, financially viable results.

Our People
Our company is our people and, as Jacobs Consultancy, we can now offer our clients more of the industry's most innovative thinkers and problem solvers.

  • Long-term senior staff commitment. Central to our vision is a continuing investment in the very best people in the industry. The long-term commitment of our Directors to our business and their continuing commitment to Jacobs Consultancy are the basis for our transition.
  • New talent and new ideas. Since joining Jacobs Consultancy in 2004, we have strengthened our senior team by the addition of several industry-leading airport consultants with expertise in architecture, airspace and airfield analyses, commercial development planning, environmental analyses, and financial planning
We look for consultants with a desire to solve problems, to listen, and to build relationships. Our consulting staff represents all of the disciplines associated with airport development, management, and operation. Our consultants are drawn from airport management, airlines, management and financial consulting, airport planning, and directly from business and planning schools.

Our Capabilities
Our clients include the sponsors of most of the 100 largest airports in the United States, and sponsors of many of the industry-leading airports worldwide. We also work with leading private airport managers and developers, financial institutions, national governments and the airlines to help deliver solutions to the airport industry that can be implemented effectively and efficiently.

Our range of services includes financial, business, commercial, and strategic planning, as well as airfield and airspace planning, terminal and landside planning, and environmental management and planning.

Nick Davidson
Vice President--Jacobs Consultancy, Transport Practice