Social Value
Inaccessible transport costs our society and our economy. KPMG helped the Motability Foundation quantify that cost and then set up a £20m research centre to help kickstart solutions.
Everyone intuitively knows that accessible transport is critical for people living with disabilities and for our country’s economic growth, yet nobody had ever stopped to quantify the actual cost. This meant that there was no reliable data available to help transport authorities make business cases for investments into accessibility.
The Motability Foundation wanted to change that and to go further; it wanted to create a £20 million research and innovation centre focused on accessible transportation. Motability needed help – not only to quantify the size of the problem, but also to assess their options, procure a solution and set up their research centre. They chose KPMG to provide that support.
Leveraging our deep experience with complex economic modelling, we calculated that improved access to transport would deliver the UK an annualised benefit of £72.4 billion. That got industry interested, and it gave us the data to help the Foundation create its proposed research centre.
We brought our firm’s full multidisciplinary power to the table. We helped Motability to assess a range of delivery model options for the centre and to execute a professional bid competition and drive engagement. We instilled a high level of governance, providing the board and participants with confidence. Then we helped them select the winner and establish the centre, ultimately supporting the project from idea right through to solution.
The National Centre for Accessible Transport has already made significant contributions to the data surrounding accessible transport which, in turn, is helping eliminate real barriers to accessibility.
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