Making Software Easier

At Cambridge Systematics, we recognize that asset management can be a frustrating and complex process. That is why we continuously strive to provide asset...

A New Open Source Dispatch Tool: Adapting the MBTA’s Skate

At CS, we’ve been working with open source transit software like OneBusAway and OpenTripPlanner for many years, and we believe in the community benefits...

Data Warehouse Expertise

Big data in transportation is – you guessed it – getting even bigger.But “Big data” is such an expansive topic that it deserves clarification. Google’s...

COVID-19 & Transit: Technological Innovations in Social Distancing

Do you take transit? Work in transit? If you answer yes to either, your experience is jarring: Transit has been turned upside down. News headlines have...

Building a TransAM Community

Through TransAM, our top priority is to help transportation agencies effectively address the challenges of asset performance management. In fact, many...

Trip Planning with Demand Responsive Transit: Part 1 Foundations

Long familiar to paratransit and rural riders, demand response transit options have become more common in recent years as transit agencies have...

TRB Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity (CATE) to Feature CS’ Dr. Paul Sorensen

At this year’s virtual Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity, Cambridge Systematics’ (CS) Dr. Paul Sorensen will join the technical session,...

Trip Planning with Demand Responsive Transit: Part 2 Integration and Eligibility Tradeoffs

In a previous post, we covered the basics of how we approach demand response trip planning at CS, and raised some issues about decisions and tradeoffs...

CS Software Supports the Mobility Data Interoperability Principles

CS is excited to support the Mobility Data Interoperability Principles as a co-signatory! At CS, we firmly believe that open data and interoperability...

Perceiving and Bypassing Project Proposal Pitfalls

Anyone can write a project proposal. But writing a winning proposal can be fraught with peril; a poorly composed proposal can cause confusion,...

SRTA is Improving Its Capital Planning Process with the Capital Planning Tool (CPT)

Learn how SRTA is reducing silos, improving analytics & reporting, and gaining a holistic vision of their capital planning processes with CS’ Capital...

Streamlining HART’s Emergency Communications during Hurricane Ian with the OneBusAway Platform

In mid-September, during a regular meeting between the CS Software team and the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART), the team asked if it...

How to Avoid “Ghost Buses” and Other Pitfalls of Using Real-time Bus Data

“Ghost buses” are buses that are displayed on real-time bus arrival apps, but never show up. This can happen when a scheduled bus is taken out of service...