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At this year’s virtual Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity, Cambridge Systematics’ (CS) Dr. Paul Sorensen will join the technical session, “COVID-19 Impacts on Public Transit Service and Road Space”. Scheduled for 11am-12:15pm ET on Thursday,...

Long familiar to paratransit and rural riders, demand response transit options have become more common in recent years as transit agencies have experimented with new technology-enabled services. Federal funding support, private competition and...

Through TransAM, our top priority is to help transportation agencies effectively address the challenges of asset performance management. In fact, many agencies face strikingly similar hurdles in managing asset life cycles, grants and funding, and project planning. That is why we’ve begun building a TransAM community.

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 covered everything from decreased ridership and services, to budget cuts, and federal stimulus relief for transit systems.

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 definition (almost by definition) should receive instant credibility: “Extremely large data...

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 of that approach. So when a new open source software application for transit appears on the scene, we...

At Cambridge Systematics, we recognize that asset management can be a frustrating and complex process. That is why we continuously strive to provide asset and grant management software that is simple to operate, user-friendly, and streamlines business...