Data Management

As policy and planning experts as well as technicians, Cambridge Systematics considers your future needs as well as your immediate concerns in designing our solutions. Highly experienced when using data relating to transportation planning, operations, freight logistics, archived intelligent transportation systems (ITS), commercial vehicle operations (CVO), and asset management, our exclusive focus on transportation enables development that is rapid, pragmatic, and state-of-the-art. We understand the importance of ensuring data are collected, analyzed, integrated, and organized in such a way to provide for optimum decision-making by our clients.

Our Services

• Data Collection. We understand the details of data: population and demographic, land use, travel, economic and business, freight, traffic and vehicle classification, finance, infrastructure, air quality, and environmental. Our market research expertise enables us to devise innovative approaches to data collection and validation — qualitative and quantitative surveys, interviews, segmentation, stratified sampling, and online data capture methods. Cambridge Systematics’ data collection systems include CVIEWCS™ and Bridge PortalCS™, which store mission-critical data for public sector transportation agencies.
• Data Analysis and Integration. Organizing disparate sources of data so that they can be combined to provide for sound analysis is part art and part science. Having pioneered the development of a number of modeling techniques, we understand how to make effective use of geospatial data. We are experienced in data compilation, transformation, and integration, and have managed data for some of the nation’s most complex transportation databases. A variety of sources such as national freight, performance, and system inventory databases are leveraged by integrating these data to solve complicated transportation challenges. Cambridge Systematics supports the Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS), the Year 2000 Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP), and the use of archived ITS databases.
• Programming and Custom Application Development. The power of GIS in transportation lies in applying geographic data and geospatial technologies to improve decision-making. Cambridge Systematics has developed many GIS-based applications, ranging from mapping and inventory systems to GIS-based travel demand modeling. GIS is used to store, integrate, analyze, and map spatially defined data, including travel patterns, demographics, land use, economic, and environmental databases. Cambridge Systematics provides Internet-based mapping services to meet client and project needs. GIS facilitates easy communication of analysis results to partner agencies and community groups, which is especially helpful in examining issues of environmental justice.
• Decision Support Tools. Our decision support tools enable our customers to manage their assets more effectively, protect the transportation infrastructure, and ensure safety on the nation’s highways. We have developed a number of leading tools, customized and optimized for each client. Cambridge Systematics’ tools include Bridge PortalCS, the ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS), and the Surface Transportation Efficiency Analysis Model (STEAM) . Cambridge Systematics also develops customized systems to meet the specific needs of clients. We have successfully deployed decision support tools for Federal, state, regional, and local clients.

Why Cambridge Systematics

Cambridge Systematics offers unique, domain-specific data management services and products that enable our transportation clients to efficiently integrate data into transporta­tion management. We understand multimodal capital planning and programming, traffic operations, freight logistics, CVO, and asset management; and the role that information technologies can play in supporting efficient and effective decision-making. Collecting, cleaning, accessing, analyzing, and displaying data are critical elements of successfully accomplishing key missions such as safety, mobility, economic competitiveness, and community preservation.