Transportation, Mobility, and Access

Transportation, Mobility, & Access Planning for Cities, Districts, and Redevelopment Areas

Studio Davis provides transportation, mobility, and access planning services for communities working to connect land use decisions with how people actually move. We help cities, agencies, and project teams understand the practical access needs of downtowns, neighborhoods, station areas, commercial districts, and redevelopment sites, then translate that understanding into clear recommendations that support walking, biking, transit, parking, curb access, and everyday circulation.

Our work is grounded in the experience of arriving in a place: where people enter, where they park, how they find their way, what routes feel safe or confusing, and where mobility systems help or get in the way. We focus on transportation planning that is useful to decision-makers, responsive to local conditions, and connected to implementation.

A Practical Approach to Mobility Planning

Transportation planning works best when it is tied to land use, public experience, and the specific decisions a community needs to make. Studio Davis approaches mobility as a system of choices and constraints, including street design, walking conditions, transit access, bike and micromobility connections, parking, curb activity, and development context.

Our work helps communities move beyond abstract mode-share goals toward practical strategies that improve access to real destinations. That may mean identifying missing pedestrian links around a transit station, clarifying circulation around a downtown, improving access to an affordable housing site, or helping a city understand how transportation and parking decisions affect redevelopment potential.

Our Transportation, Mobility, & Access Services

• Multimodal Access Planning
  Analysis and recommendations for improving walking, biking, transit, driving, parking, and curb access in ways that reflect how people actually use a place.
• Downtown and District Circulation
  Planning for movement within downtowns, commercial districts, campuses, and other activity centers where parking, loading, walking, and local travel patterns overlap.
• Station-Area and Transit Access Planning
  Strategies to improve access to transit stations and stops, including pedestrian connections, bicycle and micromobility access, parking, curb use, and surrounding land use conditions.
• Redevelopment and Site Access Planning
  Transportation planning support for redevelopment areas, infill sites, housing projects, and mixed-use districts where access, circulation, and parking need to work together.
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Connectivity
  Identification of barriers, gaps, and practical improvements that make it easier and safer for people to walk, bike, and move between destinations.
• Curb and Arrival Planning
  Recommendations for how people arrive, load, park, get picked up, or connect to other modes, especially in places where curb space is limited or in high demand.
• Mobility Policy and Implementation Guidance
  Policy recommendations, implementation steps, and decision frameworks that help communities align transportation investments with local goals for housing, redevelopment, access, and placemaking.
• Field Observation and User Experience Review
  On-the-ground review of how people move through a place, where confusion occurs, and what changes would make the transportation system easier to understand and use.

Experience Across Diverse Communities

Studio Davis has led parking planning work in communities of all sizes, from large and fast-growing urban centers to small and mid-size cities where parking decisions can have an outsized impact. Our experience ranges from dense streetcar corridors and downtowns, to coastal towns and neighborhood commercial districts, each with distinct constraints, politics, and priorities.

Much of our work is focused on small and mid-size cities, where limited staff capacity and tight budgets make clear, implementable parking strategies especially important. At the same time, we have supported parking planning efforts in larger cities including Portland, Oregon and Charlotte, North Carolina, where scale and complexity introduce different challenges but the same underlying need for data-driven decision-making.

Our nationwide project experience reflects a consistent approach: understanding local context, grounding recommendations in real data, and helping communities move from analysis to action. Regardless of size, we tailor each project to the place at hand and to the decisions cities are actually prepared to make.

Selected Project Experience