Freight ToolsCS

Turn freight data into information you can use with Freight ToolsCS. Cambridge Systematics developed this tool to organize and filter commodity and freight flow data to plan for continuing growth in freight transportation. >> more

HEAT

The Highway Economic Analysis Tool (HEAT) developed by Cambridge Systematics enables agencies to estimate the relationship between highway investments and economic development within a single GIS-based program. HEAT incorporates a comprehensive range of quantitative methods and metrics to provide an objective, consistent, efficient, and accurate way to evaluate the potential economic benefits and costs of highway improvements.  >> more

HERS

The Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS) helps the FHWA and state departments of transportation (DOT) assess the optimal level of investment required to achieve desired highway system performance levels. By applying engineering standards to identify highway deficiencies and then assessing the impact of investments, HERS can help determine the most cost-effective mix of highway system improvements.

Two models of HERS have been developed by the FHWA with assistance from Cambridge Systematics:

• At the national level, the HERS model examines the relationship between investment levels and the condition and performance of the U.S. highway system
• State transportation agencies use HERS-ST for program development and needs analysis, as well as to establish performance objectives; HERS-ST has exceptionally strong capabilities to support states in planning, programming, and budgeting

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IDAS

Cambridge Systematics developed the ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS) for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to help state, regional, and local agencies easily and consistently assess intelligent transportation systems (ITS) deployments. With IDAS, you can systematically evaluate the impacts, benefits, and costs for more than 60 types of ITS investments deployed in isolation or in any combination.

Many of our clients have found IDAS especially useful in integrating ITS into their ongoing transportation planning process. And if you are familiar with the travel demand forecasting process and ITS planning, you’ll find IDAS easy to use. We offer both training and a range of consulting services to help your agency leverage IDAS.  >> more

Maintenance Budgeting System

The Maintenance Budgeting System is a web-based forecasting tool that relates maintenance budgets to expected performance.  >> more

NBIAS

The National Bridge Investment Analysis System (NBIAS) is a modeling tool that forecasts nationwide bridge performance. NBIAS is used by the FHWA and other agencies to plan maintenance, improvement, and replacement of more than 500,000 bridges.  >> more

OnTrackCS™

Successful implementation of an interagency plan, such as an SHSP, CVSN, or HSIP, requires the statewide management of related initiatives and activities across multiple agencies.  OnTrack_CS enables agencies to assemble, update, and share information on the strategies and performance measures that support their activities, as well as facilitate the tracking and reporting of progress. OnTrack_CS enables a state to efficiently reallocate resources from managing its safety plan to making roads safer.  >> more

PACT

As citizens, system managers, and legislators nationwide demand enhanced levels of accountability, many transportation agencies have turned to performance measurement to improve the planning, programming, and delivery of transportation projects and services. The combination of performance-based program development, project delivery, and system monitoring creates an effective, efficient, and accountable transportation management structure. The Performance Assessment and Collection Tool (PACT) from CS supports the performance-based management from the first goal to the final report.  >> more

PEAT

The Priority Economic Analysis Tool (PEAT) helps agencies prioritize competing project investment alternatives using an economic approach that considers both agency and road user costs.  >> more

STEAM

One of the Federal government’s primary transportation economic analysis tools, the Surface Transportation Efficiency Analysis Model (STEAM) helps state and regional agencies estimate the benefits, costs, and environmental impacts for a wide range of transportation investments and policies. Cambridge Systematics developed this innovative software for the FHWA to enable detailed, system-wide analysis of regional and corridor multimodal alternatives.  >> more