8. Transport
Through its property consultancy business,
Capita Symonds, Capita is one of the UK's leading
transport and infrastructure consultancies
providing services to clients across both public
and private sectors.
We offer a wide range of services such as highway
and tunnel infrastructure design and refurbishment,
road user pricing, intelligent transport systems,
rail engineering and project management, and
transport planning.
The Government plans to inject an extra £1bn in
major transport projects in 2009. This investment,
intended to help stimulate the economy, will be
spent on road and rail schemes. It supplements the
overall £10bn for 2009 to 2014 pledged in 2007 to
increase rail capacity. Other major long term rail
projects include London's Crossrail, the £5.5bn
Thameslink programme and an additional £600m
to tackle congestion.
Drivers for outsourcing include:
- Increasing pressure on local government budgets
and focus on delivering projects efficiently
- Government bringing forward large infrastructure
projects to create and support employment,
counter the economic downturn and foster
economic and social regeneration
- Continued focus on reducing urban congestion
- Requirement to reduce transport's long term
impact on climate change and improve the
industry’s environmental performance
- Increased focus on national infrastructure by
agencies delivering national security and resilience
strategies
- Institutions looking for help in defining
strategies to manage better their distressed
property debt books.
3% annual growth to 2012
estimated by industry analysts*