Skip to main content
Steer Home

Main navigation (Canada)

  • About
    • Our story
    • How we work
    • Our people
    • Social impact
    • Our independence
    • Research & innovation
    • Awards & accreditations
  • Markets
    • Aviation
    • Cities & places
    • Climate change & sustainability
    • Developments & real estate
    • Energy
    • Equity & Inclusion
    • Freight & logistics
    • New Mobility
    • Ports, ferries & maritime
    • Rail
    • Sports, events & leisure
    • Toll facilities & highways
    • Transportation Demand Management
    • Urban transit
  • Services
    • Commercial advisory
      • Business consulting & transaction advice
      • Due diligence
      • Financial advisory
      • Operations & service delivery
      • Project advice & assurance
    • Design
      • Cartography
      • Digital design
      • Feasibility design & detailed design
      • Urban design & placemaking
      • Wayfinding & information design
    • Economics
      • Business case & appraisal
      • Economic development
      • Economic modeling & forecasting
      • Monitoring, evaluation & impact assessment
      • Regulatory & competition advice
    • Planning & delivery
      • Development planning
      • Infrastructure planning & approvals
      • Modeling & forecasting
      • Policy & strategy
      • TDM & behavior change
    • Technology & digital
      • Customer & user experience
      • Disruptive technologies
      • Policy, strategy & regulation
      • Revenue collection & protection
      • Spatial analytics & insights
  • Projects
  • Insights
    • News & insights
    • Voices of Steer
    • Voices of the industry
    • The Review
    • Events
  • Careers
    • Working at Steer
    • Graduates
    • Experienced hires
    • Global job opportunities
    • Latin America job opportunities
  • Contact
CA
  • Global site
  • Belgium
  • Brasil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • India
  • Italia
  • México
  • Panamá
  • Perú
  • Puerto Rico
  • UK
  • USA
Search
CA
  • Global site
  • Belgium
  • Brasil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • India
  • Italia
  • México
  • Panamá
  • Perú
  • Puerto Rico
  • UK
  • USA
Search
Toggle navigation

Main navigation (Canada)

  • About
    • Our story
    • How we work
    • Our people
    • Social impact
    • Our independence
    • Research & innovation
    • Awards & accreditations
  • Markets
    • Aviation
    • Cities & places
    • Climate change & sustainability
    • Developments & real estate
    • Energy
    • Equity & Inclusion
    • Freight & logistics
    • New Mobility
    • Ports, ferries & maritime
    • Rail
    • Sports, events & leisure
    • Toll facilities & highways
    • Transportation Demand Management
    • Urban transit
  • Services
    • Commercial advisory
      • Business consulting & transaction advice
      • Due diligence
      • Financial advisory
      • Operations & service delivery
      • Project advice & assurance
    • Design
      • Cartography
      • Digital design
      • Feasibility design & detailed design
      • Urban design & placemaking
      • Wayfinding & information design
    • Economics
      • Business case & appraisal
      • Economic development
      • Economic modeling & forecasting
      • Monitoring, evaluation & impact assessment
      • Regulatory & competition advice
    • Planning & delivery
      • Development planning
      • Infrastructure planning & approvals
      • Modeling & forecasting
      • Policy & strategy
      • TDM & behavior change
    • Technology & digital
      • Customer & user experience
      • Disruptive technologies
      • Policy, strategy & regulation
      • Revenue collection & protection
      • Spatial analytics & insights
  • Projects
  • Insights
    • News & insights
    • Voices of Steer
    • Voices of the industry
    • The Review
    • Events
  • Careers
    • Working at Steer
    • Graduates
    • Experienced hires
    • Global job opportunities
    • Latin America job opportunities
  • Contact
  1. Home
  2. Sectors
  3. Rail

Rail

Billions of people use the world’s railway networks every year. Beyond the usual economic, social and environmental forces shaping the world and the rail industry, passenger experience will be a key driver for reshaping the future of rail. Rail travel forms a critical part of the lives of many people whether it be for getting to work, attending business engagements, meeting up with friends and family, or simply to explore new places. Helping to shape the future of rail travel for all users, connecting communities, generating economic growth and delivering a sustainable and environmentally friendly means of transport is incredibly important.

We are a market leader in the provision of specialist rail advice to clients across the globe with a proven track record of delivering innovative and powerful solutions to the most complex rail projects. Our strategic insight and technical excellence is provided by a team of international experts who combine global understanding with local knowledge. 

Our team comprise planners, engineers, economists, designers, financial modellers and technical specialists. In combination, these disciplines provide us with the breadth and depth to deliver integrated and innovative solutions across the rail sector for commercial transactions (including passenger franchising), ridership forecasting, strategic planning, operational evaluation, performance, station planning, business cases, strategic rail engineering and rolling stock procurement.

How we can help you

We advise public and private sector clients including governments, operators, regulatory bodies, financial institutions, and concessionaires across the world. We work with colleagues across our business and engage with partners as appropriate, to offer a full range of service to meet the needs of our clients. Our core offer includes:

Strategic railway planning and investment

  • Railway vision and strategy
  • Business case
  • Financial analysis and ridership forecasting
  • Planning railway services, stations and service integration
  • Ticketing, revenue and commercial planning

Procurement

  • Procurement support for public and private sector railways
  • Operation and maintenance cost planning
  • Due diligence and technical advice

Regulation and acquisition

  • Regulation, policy and standards development
  • Sale or purchase support
On
Contact an expert

Andrew Davies

Director
[email protected]
Andrew Davies
Contact an expert

Karen Letten

Associate Director
[email protected]
Contact an expert

Richard Harper

Associate Director
[email protected]
Richard Harper
Steer group

We are Steer

Yes, you are in the right place. After 40 years, we have changed our name from Steer Davies Gleave to mark our growing international footprint and our expanding portfolio into sectors beyond transport.

Explore our new website to learn more about Steer: who we are, how we work and what our future holds.

News and Insights

16 Mar 2023

A simpler, better way to plan a railway?

By Neil Kirkwood

How we decide on the best use of finite network capacity and give access to operate services is one of the most fraught, but fundamental,...

Read more

24 Feb 2023

The emotion and legacy of transport

By Mike Goggin

On this day, the anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine, I reflected on their efforts to change some fundamentals of the railway...

Read more

14 Feb 2023

Steer ranks as number one technical advisor for fifth consecutive year

By Steer

Steer is extremely proud to be ranked #1 by the internationally respected monitoring agency Infralogic for the fifth year in a row.

Read more

14 Feb 2023

...and then there's statistics

By Richard Harper

Last week's Bradshaw Address by the Secretary of State was widely covered, but I confess something made me uneasy - and I couldn't work...

Read more

09 Feb 2023

Taking the hovercraft to Future Transport Forum 2023

By Matthew Trigg

How many transport conferences include a ride on a hovercraft? This was one of many highlights from the recent Future Transport Forum...

Read more

©2023 Steer

Footer (Canada)

  • Sitemap
  • Policies
  • Contact
  • Cookie settings

Subscribe to our newsletter

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin
  • Instagram

Back to top

© 2023. SEE TERMS OF USE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
WWW.STEERGROUP.COM IS A SITE OPERATED BY STEER DAVIES & GLEAVE LIMITED TRADING AS STEER. WE ARE REGISTERED IN ENGLAND UNDER COMPANY NUMBER 1883830 AND HAVE OUR REGISTERED OFFICE AT 14-21 RUSHWORTH STREET, LONDON, SE1 0RB, UK. 
OUR UK VAT NUMBER IS 468 9355 87. FIND US ON COMPANIES HOUSE.