May 21, 2018
Oldfield Consultancy has signed the contract to provide expert advice on modelling the statistical and behavioural aspect of borders. Airports and Shipping Ports were the areas of concern.
Involving in-depth appraisals of ports and airports, this work feeds directly into ministerial-level decisions concerning the security and use of our ports post-Brexit.
Oldfield Consultancy is providing expert statistical and modelling input. As our Director edited the AQuA Book we are also inputting to audit and validation and verification requirements to ensure robust modelling.
This programme of work involved infrastructure, behavioural aspects, finance, statistics and modelling. Around 25 departments were present on the monthly calls, such was the overall cross-cut of the project. DFT was one such major stakeholder with existing models in this area.
We determined that was critical to determine what the existing and future capacities of ports would look like, especially where extra services, checks and balances would need to be introduced. This involved analysis down to the times of trains and planes. After visiting ports and many discussions with stakeholders. Oldfield Consultancy designed statistical research plans to ensure robust collection of the relevant data on movements, capacities and developments at ports as well as developing conceptual models for this. The models, when developed alongside the data collection, were implemented using simul8. These models were then tested, validated and verified as per the AQuA book as they would underpin evidence-based decision making by Ministers on the future of ports after Brexit.
