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...

Cambridge Systematics Announces 2022 Principal Promotions and the Recipients of the Manheim and Taggart Awards

Cambridge Systematics (CS) CEO Brad Wright announced three staff promotions to Principal and recognized the annual Manheim and Taggart award...

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...

Q&A with 2023 TRB Minority Student Fellows Leonor Reyes and Ossiris Rodriguez

The TRB Minority Fellows Program, established by The Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in 2010, aims...

Brad Wright on Celebrating 50 Years of CS

The state of transportation planning looked very different in 1972. In the 70s, the body of research around transportation planning was growing, and...

8 Steps to Prioritize EV Equity and Gear Up for A Zero-Emission Future

Federal and state electric vehicle (EV) subsidies are intended to increase access to EVs and EV service equipment (EVSE) through public investment. However,...

Cambridge Systematics Celebrates New Principals and Manheim and Taggart Award Winners

Cambridge Systematics (CS) CEO Brad Wright announced the promotion of six staff to the role of Principal and recognized the annual Manheim and Taggart award...

Leveraging Big Data to Create an Equitable, Optimized Bus Network

The project team was able to use location-based services data and algorithms to design tens of thousands of potential bus networks for the MBTA.