[1] Cambridge Systematics provides strategic planning and management services, objective analysis, and technology applications for passenger, commercial, freight, and transit systems to public and private sectors both nationally and internationally.

The company was founded on September 27, 1972, by four Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors and a colleague who were leaders in systems analysis and disaggregate models for transportation.

[3] The founding Vice President, Wayne Pecknold had been on the faculty of MIT, along with co-founders Marvin Manheim, Paul Roberts, and A. Sheffer Lang.

Since then, the company has relocated its corporate headquarters to Medford, Massachusetts and opened additional offices in Washington, D.C.; Chicago, Illinois; Tallahassee, Florida; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; New York, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles, California; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Cambridge Systematics staff members also provide onsite client support at the offices of the Federal Highway Administration and the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.