Crossley Transport Planning was founded in 2019 with a clear purpose: to bring a more human-centred perspective to transport planning.
This belief comes from a simple idea. Movement should connect people rather than divide them, and every journey shapes how people experience the places they live.
Understanding this relationship between movement and place shapes how we approach our work. We bring together evidence, design thinking and empathy to better understand how transport systems function for both people and communities.
This perspective informs the work we deliver. We partner with governments, councils and developers to develop transport strategies and infrastructure that support well-functioning places and connected communities.
Because transport planning ultimately shapes people, places and possibilities.
Stephanie Crossley founded Crossley Transport Planning to bring greater meaning, clarity and empathy to the way transport decisions are made.
Originally trained as a geographer at the University of Oxford, Stephanie developed an early interest in the dynamics that shape cities and how infrastructure, land use and human behaviour interact to influence urban life. She later completed a Master’s degree in Transport Planning and Engineering, combining this broader perspective with deep technical expertise.
Her experience ranges from street-scale planning, including early cycling superhighway studies in London, to major city-shaping development projects such as the Liverpool One redevelopment, and strategic infrastructure initiatives including Western Harbour Tunnel and Beaches Link. She has also worked on complex operational transport planning for major events, including the London Olympic Torch Relay and the Tour of Britain cycling race.
Working across this wide range of projects highlighted a recurring challenge in the profession. While transport analysis is highly effective at measuring movement and network performance, it often struggles to capture how people actually experience streets and places. Stephanie’s work focuses on bridging that gap by connecting technical evidence with a deeper understanding of behaviour, place quality and community experience.
This perspective has shaped her leadership in Movement and Place and Healthy Streets practice, where she is recognised for translating these philosophies into practical frameworks, tools and engagement approaches that help organisations understand how streets function for people as well as movement. Stephanie helped deliver the training program that introduced Movement and Place practice to practitioners across NSW.
Today she leads a multidisciplinary team of planners, engineers and analysts who combine evidence, creativity and empathy to shape transport systems that work for communities as well as networks.
“Good planning understands how a place feels before it measures how it moves.”
