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Women's History Month Leadership Spotlight: Part 2 A Q&A with Lisa Destro

Cambridge Systematics (CS) has benefited from a long history of women transportation professionals leading, innovating, and advancing our mission to...

Women's History Month Leadership Spotlight: Part 1 A Q&A with Laura O'Neill

Cambridge Systematics (CS) has benefited from a long history of women transportation professionals leading, innovating, and advancing our mission to...

Top Ten Trends From The 2024 APTA Marketing Communications & Customer Experience Workshop

Public transit is in a unique position to reshape its services to match evolving customer travel habits and expectations. Since the pandemic, transit...

Benefit-Cost Analysis: The Key to Successful PROTECT Grant Applications for Resilience Projects

The sheer size of the United States and its wide variety of climates means it’s vulnerable to many kinds of natural disasters. We witness them every year:...

Integrating Resilience for Safer Communities: The Case for Resilience Improvement Plans

In September 2023, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the United States set a new record for the number of weather...

Navigating the Transit Agency Funding Cliff: 3 Steps to Future-Proof Transit Operations

With a potential disaster coming for transit agencies, how can you future-proof your agency’s transit operations? Transit agencies across the country are...

Radical Redesign: A Closer Look

In the last half century, so much has changed about the way people move around their communities. Yet, our public transit systems have largely remained...

What Now? Moving the Needle on Freight Equity Planning for States

What is transportation equity? While there may be varying definitions of the term, in general, transportation equity seeks to ensure that the benefits and...

Then + Now: Part 3 Revolutionizing Bus Network Redesign with Data

A Brief History of Bus Networks The bus is the backbone of every transit system in the world, connecting people to jobs, grocery stores and other...

Then + Now: Part 2 Why Exploratory Modeling Is the Future of Scenario Planning

Planners call it scenario planning; modelers call it risk analysis. However you define it, preparing for the future is a risky endeavor full of...

Then + Now: Part 1 Resilience in the Face of Increasing Climate Risk

Resilience  With each passing year, we hear more superlatives used to describe the scale of climate-related disasters: largest, biggest, costliest – the...