Cambridge Systematics is committed to ensuring client success — no matter how complex the challenge. We pride ourselves on working closely with our clients — from understanding their underlying needs to supporting effective decision-making and implementation. By providing innovative policy and planning solutions, objective analysis, and technology applications, we help our clients meet future transportation needs while improving the performance of existing infrastructure and operations.

Policy, Strategic Planning, & Management Transportation leaders turn to Cambridge Systematics for strategic planning, policy analysis, and management advice. We are known for our ability to develop innovative and sound solutions to address complex transportation issues, present and future. Through long-term partnerships with our clients — including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), state departments of transportation (DOT), and metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) — we have influenced the development of effective transportation policies and helped design and implement effective management solutions throughout the United States and around the world.  Environment and Transportation Cambridge Systematics is deeply committed to sustaining our environment and conserving natural resources – ensuring that a healthy environment and top quality transportation services go hand in hand. Our environmental initiative assists communities and transportation agencies in planning and implementing sustainable transportation systems that will meet the needs of our growing economy while contributing to a better environment. Our environmental practice focuses on transportation climate change policy, mobile source greenhouse gas emissions analysis and reduction strategies, as well as in integrating environmental and climate change considerations into policy-level decisions.   Forecasting Developing accurate and credible forecasts for some of the most challenging and visible modeling projects in the nation has earned Cambridge Systematics international recognition. Our clients benefit from our technical skill, practical solutions, and dedication to improving transportation. For more than 30 years, we have developed and applied high-powered and common sense analytical techniques to guide our independent thinking and objective analysis. In fact, we contributed to and in some cases developed many of the travel demand forecasting practices in use in the transportation industry today.  Operations & Simulation Today’s transportation leaders must focus on system operations and performance as well as system expansion. Cambridge Systematics is a recognized leader in the development of strategies and application of technologies to improve operations performance — including highways, transit, and freight — at the national, state, corridor, and local levels. We are a recognized leader in ITS policy, planning, and program development, and have developed some of the nation’s leading ITS planning and evaluation tools. We want our clients to make the most of their transportation resources.  Transportation Safety Cambridge Systematics is deeply committed to improving the safety of our transportation system. For nearly a decade we have conducted safety-related research, developed safety plans and programs for Federal and state agencies, and deployed information systems that make highways and other modes of transportation safer. Our safety work builds upon the core capabilities of the firm, including data collection and quantitative analysis, information systems, geographic information systems, commercial vehicle operations, freight analysis, and the development of statewide and regional transportation plans.

Tolling & Road Pricing Cambridge Systematics offers services related to forecasting demand and revenue of tolled highways and transit systems. Our staff prepares forecasts at all levels of detail, from exploratory feasibility studies through “investment-grade” studies that are used to support bond financing. Cambridge Systematics’ resources are unparalleled when it comes to constructing analytical models to assess the willingness of people to pay for transportation services.   Asset Management As infrastructure ages, systematic management of investments in transportation assets has become a requirement for cities, regions, states, and countries around the world. Cambridge Systematics was influential in establishing the discipline of asset management in the transportation industry, and continues to be at the forefront in development of methodologies, tools, and strategies. From developing the national guidelines for asset management under the auspices of the NCHRP to helping many state agencies improve their evaluations of transportation system condition and performance, we offer our clients powerful insights, pragmatic programs, and a focus on results.  Software & Information Technology Consulting Cambridge Systematics is a leading, full-service provider of software development and information technology services to the transportation industry. We make your agency more productive and efficient by combining our extensive knowledge and experience in transportation with superb skills in information technology. From IT strategy consulting to software and systems development, Cambridge Systematics offers a variety of services that enable you to focus on executing your agency’s mission.  GIS & Data Management Safety, mobility, economic competitiveness, regulatory compliance, and community preservation all depend on the ability to collect, analyze, and display relevant and accurate data. Geospatial analysis and tools improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making in all of these areas by turning complex volumes of data into powerfully displayed communication of transportation alternatives. Cambridge Systematics has been perfecting the integration of our data analysis and geospatial technology services with our transportation domain expertise for more than 15 years.