Economic Appraisal & Business Cases
Cost-benefit analysis, economic evaluation, lifecycle and financial analysis, options comparison, and business-case support.
If it matters to the decision,
it deserves to be measured.
Luminus Consulting provides evidence-based economic analysis and strategic advice for transportation and other public sector investments.
Based in Toronto. Working across Canada and beyond.
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Services
Rigorous analysis for difficult investment decisions.
Methodology & Applied Research
Developing and updating appraisal methods, parameters, and guidance when standard practice does not fit the decision.
Analytical Models & Decision Tools
Purpose-built models, rapid assessment tools, scenario calculators, demand approaches, and QA frameworks.
Independent Technical Review / QA
Senior peer review of business cases, models, and consultant deliverables; sense-checking outputs and tracing errors to source.
Planning, Forecasting & Service Analysis
Transportation planning, service concepts, demand forecasting, and rapid scenario analysis grounded in appraisal experience.
Training & Capability Building
Practical training for planners, analysts, and managers on economic appraisal, business cases, analytical reasoning, and QA.
Experience
Built on experience. Driven by the question.
Luminus is led by Phil Orr, an urban planner and transportation economist with more than 15 years of experience in economic appraisal, business cases, transportation planning, and analytical methodology.
About Luminus
Method builder, not just model user
Developing and adapting analytical approaches when established methods don't answer the question at hand.
Client-side judgment
Understanding not only how to produce analysis, but what makes it useful, defensible, and manageable from the client's perspective.
Technical depth, clearly communicated
Finding the important signal in complicated analysis and communicating it clearly to decision-makers.
Luminus Insights
Against the Median
A series of data-informed essays that looks past the conventional headline and asks whether we're measuring the things that actually matter.
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Latest insight
Beyond the End of the Line
The journey doesn't end at the platform. Overlooked access and egress times can dramatically change the value of transit investments, sometimes overstating their benefits and sometimes understating them.
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