Step one offers a range of transportation planning and engineering services to private and public sector clients. We help municipalities create people centered transportation policies, projects and plans, and help landowners understand the mobility opportunities and requirements of development projects.
Your next project can benefit from Step one's diverse experience in municipal service and private consulting. Our experience includes delivering actionable municipal transportation policy, guiding large and complex developments to approvals, and undertaking transportation planning and engineering analysis at a variety of scales.
Development Transportation
Assessments (TIA's)
Step One helps you understand the impacts and opportunities created through development projects and verify compliance with municipal requirements to minimize project risks.
Traffic Impact Studies
Multimodal trip generation and distributio
Transportation network modelling and optimization
Transportation Demand Management
Municipal Transportation Policy
Step One's experience in land development, TDM, transportation planning and transportation design can help support your team in creating people focused transportation policies, plans and projects.
Land development reviews for transportation
Parking, loading and development TDM policy
Neighbourhood traffic calming
Transportation area planning
Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
Step One helps you develop approvable TDM plans based on best practices, and can support implementation of measures and long-term monitoring of outcomes. Step One staff led the creation of the development TDM policy in Vancouver and has worked with other municipalities on TDM policy development.
TDM planning and reporting
TDM plan implementation and long term management
Long term TDM monitoring and reporting
Development Process Strategy and Support
Beyond transportation, Step One unlocks your projects that have complex engineering
issues and stakeholder relationships.
We help you develop strategies to successfully communicate your needs and to meet City requirements. And, we can provide representation for you at council meetings and open houses.
Transportation Planning
Step One helps your team move projects forward by responding to your organization's transportation goals and policies and by demonstrating mobility leadership.
Complete streets and corridors
Neighbourhood transportation planning and traffic calming
Transportation master planning.
Parking, Loading and Access Planning
Optimize investments in parking and loading to ensure more efficient projects, reduce off-site impacts and meet sustainability goals.
Parking and loading demand forecasting
Recommended vehicle and bicycle parking, goods and passenger loading supply
Review of site plans for efficiency, safety and optimization of space.
John is the founder of Step One Mobility, with over 13 years of engineering and project management experience in construction, consulting and municipal government. John's experience provides him the skills to navigate complex urban transportation issues, from crafting actionable transportation policies, to mitigating off-site impacts from development, to building consensus between cities and land owners.
John spent six years in the public sector with the City of Vancouver, leading Transportation's development review team and creating Canada's first point based Transportation Demand Management Policy for developments. John also led the City's Transportation Design Branch through engagement, design and implementation of greenways and complete streets. He has also worked as a senior engineer in the City's Major Projects group.
His private sector experience includes transportation assessments and master plans for projects across western Canada as well as conceptual design, parking studies, network modelling and microsimulation.
Step One's Mission
To help enable forward thinking projects and policies by using the language of transportation planning and engineering to find common cause between municipalities, communities, developers and stakeholders.
