Is your community suffering from traffic congestion, declining air-quality, and commuter frustration?

Ashton Associates provides the expertise you need to plan strategies focused on short-term, cost-efficient, “doable” solutions that fit your budget and meet your timetable.

shton Associates Solutions:

• Provide the motivational systems that reward good behaviors and assure successful outcomes.

• Increase public awareness of the need to keep a sustainable environment while maintaining growth and development.

• Help communities recognize and understand the link between the environment, health and commuting.

• Create cost-effective transportation services and commuter options.

• Develop positive-choice employee and employer benefit packages.

• Create consumer initiatives that encourage program acceptance.

Are you overwhelmed by conflicting demands? Are you up against red tape and regulations that block effective responses?

Ashton Associates has extensive experience working with federal, state, and local policy components of SAFTEA-LU including Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC), and Sections 5311, 5310, 5309 and 5307; the Clean Air Act including Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ), and the American Disabilities Act.

shton Associates Solutions:

• Re-engineer and streamline existing federal, state and local programs to meet regulatory specification.

• Negotiate regulatory compliance through voluntary measures

Are you finding it difficult to get people to cooperate?

Ashton Associates brings over 25 years of experience in team building and working with employers, citizens and community groups in planning effective and beneficial transportation and land use strategies for economic and community development.

shton Associates Solutions:

• Facilitate decision making processes, and contract negotiation.

• Mediate issues with diverse groups of people.

• Bring people together around identified issues.

• Create public/private partnerships that work.

• Balance relationships between an individual’s need, and an organization’s goals.

Do you have an idea, but no time to develop it into a proposal, let alone find the funding?

Ashton Associates team members are brought into each project, as needed, to match the complexity and demands of the project, as determined by the goals and objectives of the client. All project proposals include references and project experience for each team member.

Ashton Associates Solutions:

• Take your idea through to its implementation.

• Develop a proposal that includes fund-raising, marketing, and promotion.

• Create a complete professional product including pre- and post-survey results, support materials, data sheets, charts and graphs.

Ashton Associates Will Bring Your Project To Life

• Provide a needs-assessment of your organization’s corporate climate using a variety of surveys.

• Identify strategies that can motivate change within your organization through process and objective analysis.

• Connect short-term gain and long-term change systems to a flexible, functional, and productive plan.