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July 5, 2017 (MEDFORD, MA) – Cambridge Systematics (CS) President and CEO Brad Wright announced this week that, effective immediately, the firm is consolidating its planning practices under the leadership of CS Principal and Executive Vice President James Brogan. The...

June 23, 2017 (MEDFORD, MA) – The shareholders of Cambridge Systematics elected Bob Skinner to the firm’s Board of Directors on Wednesday, June 21. Skinner’s election expands the Board to seven members, including five external directors.  Lance Neumann, CS’ former...

What’s your region’s strategic direction? CS supported the Gulf Coast Community Foundation with a regional strategic scan to assess current conditions and emerging trends. Read about the report and thoughts from CS transportation planning expert Evan Enarson in SQR Magazine....

ITE Journal published The Evolving Role of Transportation in Economic Development, by Paula Dowell, principal and director, and Isabel Victoria-Jaramillo, senior freight transportation economist, of the Economics Service Center at CS. “Transportation’s role is evolving,” our experts explain,...

Is your statewide freight plan compliant with the FAST Act? David Willauer, CS Senior Associate, and L'Kiesha Markley, freight planning coordinator for the Maryland State Highway Administration, presented to the Hagerstown/Eastern Panhandle Metropolitan Planning Organization on critical urban and rural...

METRO Magazine published Modeling Future Mobility: New Challenges Demand a Broader Scope, by CS senior associate and travel demand modeler Marty Milkovits.

“Connected and autonomous vehicles could represent a breakthrough in surface transportation,” he explains, “with potentially profound...

President and CEO Brad Wright announced the promotion of two staff to the role of Principal, followed by the announcement of the company’s annual Manheim and Taggart award recipients.

Many state and urban governments have set goals to increase active transportation. Is your region one of them?

With a boost in granular planning tools such as activity-based demand models transportation planners are working on creating infrastructure for...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Innovations in Freight Data Workshop Planning Committee granted the “Best Data Fusion Application” award to the Mega-Regional Multi-Modal Agent-Based Behavioral Freight Model developed by the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) and a...

Quoted in WIRED, Tom Harrington, Senior Associate of CS’ Transportation Planning and Management business line, discusses how cities plan for disruption, such as during San Francisco’s massive power outage.

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Quoted in a Halogen Software news release, Linda Cataldo, Director of Human Resources, explains how the software complements CS’ people-centric workplace, where development goals and feedback are fundamental to our culture.

Jim Brogan, Executive Vice President and Elaine McKenzie, Associate, of Cambridge Systematics worked with GLDPartners to assess trade-related infrastructure and define the best opportunities to grow trade and increase economic development in the greater Albuquerque region.

The CS and GLDPartners...

Civil + Structural Engineer published The Top Five Ways Transportation Impacts Economic Development, by CS Principal Paula Dowell. "With needs far exceeding available funding,” she writes, “transportation projects should be assessed for their wider impacts using sound economic analyses.”...

Sarah Anderson, Senior Associate, Cambridge Systematics, discusses how open-source platforms can save transit agencies money and provide other benefits.

Paul Sorensen, Senior Software Project Manager, Cambridge Systematics, discusses how one rural county used open source computer-aided scheduling to enhance its transit systems.

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