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Mobility expertise for every stage of the journey.

Journey works with you to develop best-in-class mobility strategies, bringing together deep experience in travel demand management, transit planning, and curbside management.

We are roll-up-your-sleeves doers. We love to see results on the ground, so we focus implementable strategies within a broader vision.

We work collaboratively and iteratively throughout the project lifecycle - so you don’t have to wait until the final deliverable to see progress.

With Journey, you get cross-cutting, practical work. We look for synergies and efficiencies within projects to ensure every step adds value.

Our Core Services

TDM, Parking &
Curbside Strategy

Capital projects are great but managing demand is half the battle. Balance physical improvements with demand policies and programs to achieve the best results. We design, implement, and operate city, stadium, developer, event, Transportation Management Association (TMA) and employer TDM programs – as well as curbside strategies, parking strategies, and station access programs. Our work spans all modes, ensuring that TDM strategies fare well within the broader transportation context.

Transit
Planning

Journey’s transit planning approach focuses on practical strategies for improving operations, growing markets, developing successful real estate projects, and launching new transit technology products. Bus network redesigns, transit corridor service planning, shuttle planning, transit master plans, microtransit service planning, station access planning, and Title VI evaluations are all in our wheelhouse.

Planner-Led
Engagement

Community outreach should be engaging and directly connected to the underlying planning process. That's why we have a planner-led engagement practice that is proactive and topically relevant. We look for opportunities to closely tie engagement to technical work, while incorporating bigger picture messaging that crosses disciplines. For example, our construction mitigation engagement approach centers TDM strategies to achieve mode shift goals and reduce drive alone trips during all project stages. We offer full-service or strategy level help, depending on the market.

Strategy, Support & Training

True progress is sustainable and internal. While we like advising as experts in our industry, we are most satisfied when our work helps builds the skill sets and structures needed to make rapid and ongoing change. We offer tailored approaches designed to enhance your institutional capacity - including organizational reviews, implementation assistance, training modules, in-situ coaching, and leadership support. Need short-term staff embeds to augment a priority initiative or for seamless access to specific expertise? We can play matchmaker.

Your Copilots

Founder & TDM Lead

Lauren Mattern

A leader in all things travel demand management, Lauren loves translating lofty policy goals into actionable steps. With almost 20 years in the industry, split evenly between public and private, she brings an implementers' eye to project teams. Lauren advises nationally - and internationally - on TDM strategies, curb management, and decarbonization approaches.

Her work style? Lauren loves seeing projects and teams succeed, bringing a joyful and transparent work style to her teams. She cuts through the noise to figure out what matters most and executes in that direction quickly and collaboratively.

Transit Lead

Dan Berez

A cross-disciplinary practitioner with deep experience in bus service planning, Dan loves projects that link transit planning with big picture goals. He has worked for over ten years to execute bus network redesigns, transportation master plans, transit priority projects, BRT operations plans, and microtransit implementation strategies. Dan frequently functions as a transit specialist on collaborative project teams - facilitating conversations between transit agencies and developers, engineers, transit tech companies, and neighborhood associations.

His work style? Dan blends blue sky thinking with a focus on action - coaching project teams towards rapid, iterative implementation without losing sight of the broader implications of their work.

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