Go farther with your infrastructure

Transport is big at CPCS. It’s no coincidence given our origins.

Clients rely on us to improve their transportation networks and operations.

Our clients are: 

• Governments at all levels
• International development agencies such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank
• Investors
• Infrastructure owners and operators
• Industry associations and advocacy organizations

Powering economic and social development through infrastructure

Our clients are: 

• Governments at all levels
• Utilities
• Regulators
• Investors
• International development agencies such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank
• Infrastructure owners and operators
• Industry associations and advocacy organizations

Public-private partnerships: Turning complex transactions into success stories

Clients rely on us to bring the public and private sectors together and mobilize investments.

Our clients are: 

• Governments at all levels
• Investors
• International development agencies such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank

Climate change advisory for transportation and energy sectors

CPCS finds climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions for better, cleaner transportation and power systems, assets, and services.

Our climate change advisory services span developing pathways to reduce emissions in transport and energy systems, accelerating electrification of passenger and freight transport, preparing strategies for lower-carbon supply chains, mobilizing climate finance for infrastructure projects including PPPs, and advising governments seeking stronger policies, regulatory and institutional frameworks to deliver and run sustainable transportation and energy systems.

We specialize in strategies for:

• Decarbonizing all modes of transportation and logistics
• Increasing renewables in the energy sector
• Increasing access to climate finance

Integrated services:

• CPCS delivers practical pathways and provides technical assistance to public and private organizations around the world.
• CPCS has the full spectrum of expertise in-house: environmental, financial, economic, operational, commercial, legal, and regulatory to fully grasp what’s at stake and provide neutral, actionable, and evidence-based insights for decision-making.

What we do:

• Prepare e-mobility strategies for new technologies and business models
• Assess policy options and trade-offs to reach net zero transportation targets
• Develop renewable energy sector roadmaps
• Help multilateral development banks and financing institutions design climate finance facilities and develop a pipeline of climate-smart infrastructure projects
• Design financing strategies to match climate financing and market opportunities
• Help governments make policy decisions based on evidence and in-depth analyses

From evidence to action

No place for climate inaction when it’s “code red for humanity” and damage toll worsening

The world’s global transport and energy infrastructure systems are huge greenhouse gas emitters.

Consequently, we must act intelligently to improve them and increase our odds of collectively limiting their negative impact on what’s unfolding:

• accelerating and intensifying climate-related disasters (warming seas, heatwaves, floods, cyclones, droughts)
• widespread and severe losses and damages to humans and nature
• increasing compound hazards impacting water and food security, infrastructure, health, economies, and culture

The signal is loud and clear. Even the United Nations starkly described the findings of a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as “code red for humanity.”

If this warning wasn’t enough, the UN said following the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) that “countries have failed to decisively move away from fossil fuels” and there’s an “urgent need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 1.5°C.”

Staying within the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold aspired to in the Paris Agreement is about more than having ambitious targets like reducing global GHG emissions by 45% by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050. It’s also about how we’ll get there.

We must be smart in how we design and deploy infrastructure systems, services, and assets. We need informed decision makers and policymakers, sound strategies, effective execution, accountability, and practical, evidence-based pathways.

CPCS knows how to help clients develop solutions to achieve more sustainable transportation and energy systems.

A clear path backed by deep analytics.

Frame objectives: CPCS will help you define, articulate and create a shared understanding of objectives. This process typically starts with: “where do you want to go?”

Assess options: Next, CPCS assesses each option and their relative merits. We bring creativity, pragmatism and rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods to this process so that

infrastructure leaders understand the implications of all possible alternatives.

Go from strategy to concrete action plan: Clients have described CPCS’s strategic plans as clear, practical and realistic. We complement plans with an honest assessment of potential risks and options to mitigate them.

Economic impact analysis to estimate the expected direct, indirect and induced impacts that a new infrastructure project will have on economic activity, jobs and government revenue.

• Cost-benefit analysis and modelling to determine the economic costs and benefits of a project, gauge its economic feasibility and assess if government funding is justified.

• Analysis of social and environmental costs to quantify how a new project could improve safety and reduce pollution, climate change, and other environmental and social costs.

• Pricing and willingness to pay / analysis and incentive design to assess how much revenue can be increased by different approaches to charging users for infrastructure and associated services.

• Equity / distributional analysis to understand the impacts of projects and policies on different groups in society, including by gender, race, and socioeconomic and geographic situation.

• Political economy analysis to understand how foundational factors, rules/norms and actors of influence impact markets and incorporate these findings in program design and implementation.

• Demand forecasting to predict how much traffic can be expected as a result of new infrastructure, changes to existing infrastructure and changes in policies.

• Competitiveness analysis to understand how much demand is likely to result from alternative configurations of infrastructure or services and at what prices.

• Economic development analysis to attract investment and jobs by prioritizing where and how to market development opportunities related to transportation and power infrastructure.

• Regulatory modelling to estimate the impacts of a new or changed regulation or to design better regulations.

• Risk analysis to assess how costs, schedules, demand and revenues might respond to changes in assumptions about the future.

Avoid pitfalls and negotiate strong agreements.

Advise in key negotiations

Anticipate legal and regulatory risks and roadblocks

Review sector structures in legal and institutional aspects

Support you during high-stakes negotiations

CPCS’s lawyers are committed to realizing your infrastructure ambitions from beginning to end.

Our legal experts diligently inspect the legal and regulatory ramifications of your project and devise strategies to minimize roadblocks.

They walk you through key negotiations so that you can get the most out of your project.

1 Regulatory analysis and design Agreements

2 Enabling legislation/laws

3 Negotiations support

4 Institutional reform implementation support

CPCS’s analytics solutions help clients plan, build and operate infrastructure in a way that achieves value for money while improving services for the communities it serves.

Deep, cutting-edge analytics to craft data-driven strategies.

Let us untangle messy and unstructured data and turn them into practical solutions.

Cartography and visualization: Communicate with stakeholders and accelerate decision-making through interactive visualization

Data science and analytics: Industry-leading data scientists leverage analytics to address your most pressing empirical concerns

Modeling and forecasting: Be a step ahead with data-driven solutions to complex and multimodal questions