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Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS) is a planning, program management, and consulting organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm specializes in transportation and in the development and implementation of innovative policy and planning solutions, objective analysis, and technology applications. The company’s services include policy, strategic planning, and management; tolling and road pricing; transportation safety, transportation and the environment; asset management; forecasting; software and IT consulting; operations and simulation; and  GIS and data management. CS serves local, state, national, and international agencies in the public and private transportation industries. Its Chairman is Robert Kasameyer and its Chief Executive Officer is Lance A. Neumann.

Company History
The company was founded in 1972 by four Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors and a transportation consultant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the corporate headquarters is still located.

CS experienced rapid growth in the 1970s, and a second office was established in September 1976 in Berkeley, California to coordinate West Coast activity. In 1994, this office moved to Oakland, California. Responding to the growth of national planning and resource management issues, CS opened its third office, located in Washington, D.C., in March of 1991. The addition of this office enhanced the services offered to federal agencies, as well as services for  mid-Atlantic and nationwide clientele. To meet expanding market and client needs, CS opened several additional offices between 2002 and 2007 in Chicago, Illinois; Tallahassee, Florida, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida; New York, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; and Austin, Texas. Several CS staff currently provides on-site client support at the offices of the Federal Highway Administration and the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center). Today, the firm has approximately 260 professionals and support staff.

CS delivers need-based solutions that help its clients solve current and future problems. The firm has evolved a management approach that stresses intra-team communication and encourages innovative ideas and practice, helping its clients think critically and creatively to improve performance and remain competitive in a wide range of project areas. The firm’s analytical skills and techniques are applied in four specific areas, including transportation planning and management, travel demand forecasting and market research, transportation operations, and freight transportation.

In 2007, CS celebrated 35 years of providing management and planning consulting services and information systems to the public and private transportation industries.

Organization
CS is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with eight offices located throughout the United States.

The firm was founded under the charter of “the application of systematic analysis to problems of transportation, the environment, urban development, and regional planning” and incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on September 27, 1972, and remains an independent, employee-owned firm.