Take the guess work out of building future-proof shared transport with our impartial, data-driven strategy & expertise.
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Why do shared transport schemes stall?
- Fear of failure: Uncertainty about operating models, area scoping, and long-term viability.
- Operator pressure: Difficulty finding impartial, data-led advice when operators have a vested interest.
- Procurement complexity: Navigating licensing, planning, and procurement without a robust, peer-reviewed framework.
- Lack of resource: Insufficient in-house expertise or time for detailed monitoring and evaluation.
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The CoMoUK difference: impartial strategy, proven results
We do not consult for our operator members.
As an independent, registered charity and non-profit, our advice is always driven by public good and data integrity, not commercial targets. We remove the bias from your shared transport strategy.
- Data-led confidence: Detailed market analysis and evaluation to back every decision.
- Best practice expertise: Critical friend reviews based on the UK's most comprehensive shared transport knowledge base.
- Seamless deployment: Procurement and stakeholder consultation that anticipates regulatory hurdles.
How we can support you
Collaboration
We also work alongside research consultancies, particularly on mobility hubs.
Recent examples include:
- East Fife Council (with Steer)
- Confidential public sector and rail industry commission (with WSP)
- East West Rail and England's Economic Heartland (with WSP)
Meet the team
Patrick leads CoMoUK’s consultancy services and research agenda. His responsibilities include the development of CoMoUK’s evidence base on shared transport and the coordination of high-quality research outputs for consultancy clients and the public. He is highly skilled in integrating qualitative and quantitative research methods and builds on a decade of experience in advising policy makers and stakeholders in the UK and internationally. Patrick holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh. Before joining CoMoUK in 2022, he worked at leading research universities across Europe.
Will joins CoMoUK after almost five years as a management consultant at PwC where he supported local authorities and charities with organisation-wide strategic change programmes. He is passionate about supporting clients to drive positive behaviour change and to use public resources effectively. He holds an MSc in International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability at the University of Bath, through which he qualitatively evaluated the impact of development interventions in a placement at Bath Social and Development Research. Will is an avid photographer, hiker, and organiser with environmental campaigning groups in Bristol.
Antonia was part of the team which set up CoMoUK's predecessor organisation Carplus, 25 years ago. She spent 10 years helping to nurture the newly emerging car club industry, developing the information programme and accreditation scheme amongst other projects.
After five years managing an Active Travel Project in Leeds for Sustrans, Antonia re-joined the organisation in 2015 to set up the sister arm Bikeplus to support the development of bike share and has subsequently been a key part of the team developing resources and activities relating to all shared modes including e-scooters, DDRT and mobility hubs.
Richard was previously transport programme director at the business group London First, where he led policy and advocacy across all transport modes and across services and infrastructure.
He was also a board member at the statutory transport watchdog London TravelWatch and has been a journalist and then a policy adviser at the consumer body Which? on a wide range of consumer markets including transport.
Testimonials
This is an excellent report, expertly written and exactly what I/we were seeking when it was commissioned only a few months ago. I am impressed by its thoroughness, its relevance to Luton and how focused it is. This represents superb value for money.
This commission has gone a long way towards creating order from chaos. The concept of a consolidated mobility offer for Birmingham felt, frankly, unreachable before this work began. The team have worked hard to bring specialist expertise and best practice to the fore to define a pragmatic approach to roll out mobility services in the city as part of a structured, partnership working arrangement. There is a lot more work to do from here, but this valuable output is already helping to frame the debate and advance the Council and its partners' thinking towards a more effective, long-term delivery model.
The Feasibility Report looking at car clubs within Warwick District produced by CoMoUK is an excellent report and provides really useful context to the way forward for car clubs within the area. It has also been used as an example to potentially widen the study to a county level. The process of producing the report was seamless and professional with regular meetings with the same officers within the organisation to understand progress and provide the opportunity to ask relevant questions.
In the rapidly changing world of shared mobility, the advice and expertise of CoMoUK has been invaluable. In particular, the car club accreditation scheme helps reduce the burden on council officers, and annual surveys provide much-needed data to better understand the impacts of and demand for shared transport.
I project manage the Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council’s bike share scheme and found advice and information from CoMoUK and its partners invaluable from the outset. In particular its great that CoMoUK have co-ordinated an industry standard for best practice for bike share - we have embedded this accreditation into our procurement process.
BCP’s bike share scheme is now the second largest in the country and this summer we will be adding a further 275 bikes to meet demand.
Working with CoMoUK provided valuable insights into shared mobility services that have helped us to better understand the potential market for car share and bike share programmes in our borough from a data-led perspective. Their analysis has been thought-provoking and helped to inform the continued development of our next Local Transport Plan. We appreciated their thorough approach and the practical input they offered.
Thanks for your help in the early days of the project, it was really valuable in getting the scheme to where we are now.
CoMoUK are a great and reliable source of best practice in the UK transport sector, especially in the field of shared mobility. The organisation works to brings best practice and provides an excellent platform for networking with colleagues and practitioners in other local authorities. They offer reliable technical advice. As a ‘Critical Friend’ for Leicester’s planned bikes share scheme – Santander Cycles Leicester – we have been able to reflect, formulate proposals, make decisions and take forward options with confidence, despite the significant times of change for the world of shared transport, public access and social inclusion.
