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Recent Publications
Asset Management Guide Supplement: Asset Category Overviews & Lifecycle Management
To advance transit asset management, the Federal Transit Administration updated the Transit Asset Management Guide Supplement to provide detailed i
ADVANCING TSMO: Making the Business Case for Institutional, Organizational, and Procedural Changes
Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) presents a key opportunity for transportation agencies today and many agencies have recentl
NCHRP Report 868: Cell Phone Location Data for Travel Behavior Analysis
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) announced on July 18, 2018 the release of Report 868: Cell Phone Location Data for Trave
Active Transportation and Demand Management Trajectory-Level Validation
Recent research efforts, such as the Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) project, Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) 2 C10 project and SHRP2 L08 project, have demonstrated that existing AMS tools have limited capabilities to properly reflect the impacts of a proactive management approach on driver behavior through the full trip chain.
Shaping the role of climate finance for sustainable transport: the levers and how to make them work
The TRANSfer project published a report addressing the potential role of climate finance in stimulating the development of sustainable modes of transportation.
Insights
A pilot to enhance real-time bus predictions for Metro Transit
Over the last ten years, transit riders have learned to expect accurate real-time data.
Transit Market Research Powered by Customer Data
Passenger mobility has begun a profound transformation. Social and technological entrepreneurs are launching new mobility innovations into the marketplace at an accelerated pace by leveraging the internet, smart phones and GPS. These technologies and the increasing proliferation of new shared s
Declining Ridership: Different Issues in Different Places
If you’re in the business of making transportation better—like my colleagues and I at Cambridge Systematics—you know that there has been rising concern for years about ebbing ridership on many public transit systems across the country.
The Big and Small: The Benefits of a Data Friendship
I’m an analyst at heart. I think in numbers, trends, and statistics. My organization, Cambridge Systematics, was founded 45 years ago by four MIT professors who wanted to improve transportation by using systematic processes to solve challenging problems.