TRB Special Report 304: How We Travel: A Sustainable National Program for Travel Data assesses the current state of travel data at the Federal, state, and local levels and defines an achievable and sustainable travel data system that could support public and private transportation decision-making. Lance Grenzeback of Cambridge Systematics served on the Committee on Strategies for Improved Passenger and Freight Travel Data that produced this report. A 4-page summary of this report is also available. 
For the Texas Department of Transportation and the City of El Paso, Cambridge Systematics led the development of a Regional Port of Entry Operations Plan for the El Paso Metropolitan region. This Operations Plan presents a new, system-based approach focused on identifying and implementing operational strategies to maximize the use of the region’s six existing crossings. The findings and recommendations included within this plan should be used by the region to plan and invest in its cross-border transportation system in a way that reflects the interests of all regional stakeholders, both now and in the future.
TRB Special Report 307: Policy Options for Saving Energy and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation examines the potential for policies targeting cars and light trucks, medium and heavy trucks, and commercial airliners to yield major changes in transportation energy use and emissions trends. Lance Grenzeback of Cambridge Systematics and CS Board Member, Emil Frankel, served on the Committee for a Study of Potential Energy Savings and Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Transportation that produced this report. A 4-page summary of this report is also available.
For the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), Cambridge Systematics led the development of Indianapolis Region’s Long-Range Transportation Plan. The plan supports the safe and efficient movement of people and goods within the region through the plan horizon year of 2035. The effort included developing a performance-based planning process, identifying priority corridors, refining the MPO’s project prioritization methodology, and developing a transit vision for the region. The plan established the purpose and need for major projects included in the Federal transportation funding program, identifies activities to address major transportation issues, and allocates transportation funds in the region.
For the Maryland Department of Transportation, Cambridge Systematics led the development of the Cumberland Area’s Long-Range Transportation Plan to facilitate the safe and efficient movement of people and goods throughout the region. The plan assesses existing and future conditions for the multimodal network, presents a constrained project list, and identifies the region’s multimodal transportation needs and funding for projects through 2035. Specifically, the plan focuses on integrating land use planning and transportation planning and views the various transportation modes as a network, rather than as separate entities.
For the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), Cambridge Systematics analyzed the sources of delay to implementing highway and transit projects that use Federal funding. The analyses addressed the full range of regulatory processes and administration that apply to procurement, planning, permitting, and construction phases, including practices by the grantees themselves. A series of options were developed for consideration. OCTA adopted the report and advanced its recommendations at the national level to integrate the findings in surface transportation reauthorization and regulatory reviews.
For the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Transportation Planning Board (TPB), Cambridge Systematics updated our previously prepared 2006 Financial Plan to account for the passage of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), the prospects of the next federal authorization, the changes in financial resources of the various jurisdictions, and the likely revised Federal, state, and local revenues accruing to Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Cambridge Systematics extended the forecast period for revenues and expenditures to 2040.
For TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), Cambridge Systematics led the effort to prepare a guide for agencies to establish and apply performance-based resource allocation decision-making. This guide focuses on target-setting methodologies as well as data management and stewardship. Best-practice case studies of both public and private sector organizations that use performance-based resource allocation are provided, together with examples to illustrate methods for presenting performance information to decision-makers and other stakeholders.
For the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Cambridge Systematics built upon ongoing planning integration work for the FHWA and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program to consider as well as anticipate how emerging directions in road pricing can be best evaluated, developed, and communicated. Cambridge Systematics supported the current and foreseeable regional planning goals of an excellent transportation system, vibrant economy, healthy environment, and sustainable energy policy. The work involved four case studies, plus a synthesis of what these studies might say about integrating congestion pricing in the metropolitan planning process.
For the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT), Cambridge Systematics led a study of land use and transportation planning to assist Montana’s communities for future growth and to preserve and leverage scarce resources. Activities to integrate resources into Montana’s local transportation and land use planning practices led to the development of an online toolkit of policies, practices, analytic methods, data sources, software and other ideas, to assist local transportation and land use planners with decision-making.
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 660: Transportation Performance Management: Insight from Practitioners explores the concept of performance management and examines how transportation agencies bring performance management into the decision-making process. The report provides insight in four key areas of performance management - helping an organization focus on its key issues and challenges; engaging, empowering, and motivating employees; focusing on and understanding customer needs and concerns; and sustaining and expanding performance management throughout an organization.
This guide, released by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ (AASHTO) Standing Committee on Rail Transportation (SCORT) in May 2010, provides a template for rail plan development and serves as flexible guidance to states launching state rail plans for the first time or for veteran programs looking to renew older plans with an eye to the future—and new funding.
A new report, titled European-United States Transportation Research Collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities, recognizes FHWA’s and Cambridge Systematics’ collaborative research program, Next Generation SIMulation (NGSIM), as a reference model for successful collaboration in transportation research between the United States and the European Union. Successful collaboration practices, such as NGSIM, are becoming more and more necessary in this day and age of rapid technological advances and reduced research resources.
I-95 Corridor Coalition - Mid-Atlantic Truck Operations Study (October 2009)
Model-Based Synthesis of Household Travel Survey Data in Small and Midsize Metropolitan Areas (2009)
NCHRP Synthesis 391: Public Sector Decision Making for Public-Private Partnership: A Synthesis of Highway Practice (January 2009)
Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision-Making (July 2009)
Washington State Freight Investment Study (November 2008)
A Snapshot of Travel Modeling Activities (August 2008)
New Cornerstone Revisited (2007, Report)
National Rail Freight Infrastructure Capacity and Investment Study Report (September 2007)
Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes, Chapter 17 (August 2007)
Protecting the Public Interest: The Role of Long-Term Concession Agreements for Providing Transportation Infrastructure (July 2007)
NCHRP Report 570: Guidebook for Freight Policy, Planning, and Programming in Small- and Medium-Sized Metropolitan Areas (April 2007)
Trans-Texas Corridor Rural Development Opportunities: Ports-to-Plains Case Study (April 2007)
Update on Highway Construction Cost Trends in Florida (April 2007)
Future Financing Options to Meet Highway and Transit Needs (February 2007)
2007 Annual Attainment Report on Transportation System Performance (January 2007)
Freight Financing Improvements (January 2007)
Accounting for Fuel Efficiency in Texas Fuel Tax Revenue Estimations (January 2007)
Innovative Finance Quarterly (Spring 2007)
Prototype Software for an Environmental Information Management and Decision Support System (November 2006)
Effects of the Panama Canal Expansion on Texas Ports and Highway Corridor (October 2006)
Oregon Transportation Plan (September 2006)
Minnesota Truck Size and Weight Project (June 2006)
Bay Area/California High-Speed Rail Ridership and Revenue Forecasting Study (2006)
Future Highway and Public Transportation Finance: Phase I: Current Outlook and Short-Term Solutions (May 2005)
Montana Highway Reconfiguration Study (May 2005)
Arizona DOT Regional Transportation Profile Guidelines (March 2005)
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