Building Public Trust and Meeting Regulatory Demands in the Transportation Industry
Designed for roads,
railways, and public transit
Designed to simplify large-scale transportation projects
Borealis helps you manage stakeholder engagement with clarity and control—making it easier to coordinate across teams, track commitments, and respond to issues. All on a cloud-based platform.
Enterprise-grade security and data protection
Borealis is ISO 27001 certified and designed with the transportation sector’s privacy and compliance needs in mind. Your project data, engagement history, and communications are protected with robust access controls so you can focus on delivery, not data risk.
Ready to deploy,
easy to adopt
Cloud-based and highly configurable, Borealis integrates with your existing workflows and enterprise tools. Public and private transportation teams alike benefit from rapid onboarding, multilingual support, and role-specific training to get up and running quickly.
Continuously adapting to a changing regulatory landscape
Stakeholder expectations and regulations shift quickly across regions like Canada, the U.S., Australia, and in Europe. Borealis evolves with these changes, updating features based on client feedback and global best practices to keep you one step ahead.
Solving stakeholder engagement challenges in the transportation sector with Borealis
Planning, tracking, and demonstrating meaningful engagement
Engagement plans created in Word hard to operationalize, making it difficult to assign responsibilities, track progress, or report effectively. Borealis transforms these static documents into a project management system built to manage stakeholder engagement in real time and keep public outreach staff aligned and on track.
With Borealis you can operationalize you stakeholder engagement plan by:
- Assigning outreach responsibilities and tracking task completion in real time
- Maintaining a searchable history of who was contacted, when, how, and why
- Visualizing outreach activities and stakeholder sentiment on a map with GIS mapping
- Generating detailed, export-ready reports for DOTs, contractors, or regulators
- Ensuring accountability with built-in data quality tools and audit trails
Staying on track with permitting and documentation requirements
Permitting isn’t just complex—it evolves throughout a project’s lifecycle. Whether complying with state-level consultation guidelines, or agency-specific frameworks, Borealis helps transportation teams keep clean records by:
- Organizing all stakeholder engagement and consultation in one searchable system
- Linking engagement history to permits, environmental filings, or agency reporting
- Collecting, categorizing, and reporting on public comments during official public review periods, such as those required by NEPA
- Using AI to extract insights from public input and assign follow-up actions—saving time and improving responsiveness
- Generating documentation for approvals or inspections quickly and with confidence
- Setting reminders and workflows to prevent last-minute scrambling or non-compliance
Moving faster on land access and right-of-entry processes
Land access and acquisition issues can hold up even the best-planned transportation projects.
Borealis helps you get ahead of bottlenecks by:
- Allowing teams to view land parcels and stakeholder relationships through integrated GIS
- Connecting access requests and agreements directly to individuals and properties
- Assigning responsibilities and tracking the status of negotiations or approvals
- Organizing key land data for internal reporting, compliance needs, or external partners
Respond quickly to concerns and keep issues visible
As construction approaches, timely communication becomes even more critical-especially when disruptions affect daily life.
Borealis helps teams manage input and take action effectively by:
- Manage feedback and grievances in a structured, transparent way.
- Capture complaints and inquiries through multiple channels, including mobile and online portals
- Assign follow-up tasks and monitor resolution status from a shared dashboard
- Use mapping tools to identify hotspots and escalate issues proactively
- Document every interaction with a full audit trail for accountability
Ready to simplify stakeholder relationship management in transportation?
Purpose-built features to build trust and deliver results in transportation
Stakeholder Engagement
Issue & Complaint Management
Land Access & Acquisition
Social Investment
Hear it from industry peers
– David Woodruff, Assistant Vice President & Head of U.S. Public and Government Affairs at CN
– Community involvement team Manager, Major highway redevelopment project
– Community involvement team Manager, Major highway redevelopment project
CN continuously strives to be a good neighbor to the thousands of communities we operate in and through. At the heart of that effort is effective communication with our federal, state, and local stakeholders. For the last two years, Borealis has been a critical tool in tracking and amplifying our varied communications. From tracking one-on-one engagements to organizing and managing broad issues and developing smart communications to large and diverse, yet targeted groups, CN has found Borealis to be an essential tool.
– David Woodruff, Assistant Vice President & Head of U.S. Public and Government Affairs at CN
Stakeholders often wear multiple hats. A stakeholder might sit on the council of one of the cities the project goes through, but also own a business near the laydown yard. With Borealis, we can accurately represent both “lives” in the database. This visualization helps us understand the context in which a stakeholder is experiencing the project. It makes stakeholder concerns more real.
– Community involvement team Manager, Major highway redevelopment project
We’re now able to hold public involvement up to clear metrics. Instead of just reporting anecdotal success rates, we can easily present decision makers with clear figures backed with detailed records.
– Community involvement team Manager, Major highway redevelopment project
Building stakeholder relationships that lasts
Don’t fall behind in stakeholder engagement
Supporting your long-term success in the transportation industry
At Borealis, we’re committed to helping transportation organizations succeed at every stage of their stakeholder engagement journey. With over 20 years of experience, we offer personalized onboarding, multilingual training, and ongoing support tailored to the realities of transportation infrastructure projects.
Adapted to your operations
Training that fits your team
Expert guidance you can count on
Responsive, reliable support
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