Highways and Automotive Technology

Transportation agencies and vehicle manufacturers are striving to address highway congestion and capacity, ensure safety and security, and provide drivers with essential information. Booz Allen works with public-sector transportation clients, including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), researchers, and highway managers and operators to meet these challenges while confronting sustainability, funding, and finance issues.

For more than 30 years, Booz Allen Hamilton has not only been helping clients with coordination, communications, and core processes needed for successful highways, but also has provided thought leadership in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and telematics projects. As consultants to public-sector transportation agencies, we understand market, regulatory, policy, and industry drivers. We have helped forge the intermodal, interagency, and public-private partnerships essential to local, regional, and national transportation initiatives.

Our Work

Booz Allen draws from our broad experience across all modes of transportation and deep technical expertise in automotive and telecommunications engineering, information technology, and ITS to help public transportation agencies at the federal, state, and local levels meet today’s strategic and operational challenges.

Our Capabilities

Booz Allen works with public-sector transportation agencies, including highway managers and operators, to provide analyses of high-impact technology and operational issues related to intelligent transportation systems, commercial motor vehicles, human factors engineering, emergency operations and preparedness, and safety. We also provide technology and management consulting services in areas such as:

• Assurance and Resilience
• Economics and Business Analysis
• Fleet Sustainability and Alternative Fuels Strategy
• Information Technology
• Intelligence and Operations Analysis
• Modeling and Simulation
• Organization and Strategy
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Systems Engineering and Integration

Career Opportunities

Explore career opportunities at the leading edge of highway and automotive technology.

Additional Information

• Innovative Vehicles Require Innovative Thinking—Helping transportation executives think through the issues in transitioning to “greener” vehicles and fuels.
• The Intelligent Highway: A Smart Idea?—Cashless tolls, communications networks, and connected cars make eminent sense from a public policy, mobility, and safety perspective. But Balkanization has slowed the adoption of a seamless, nationwide system. Booz Allen Hamilton explores open standards versus proprietary systems in creating tomorrow’s highways.
• New Solutions to Traffic Congestion May Also Reduce Environmental Concerns—Booz Allen’s efforts to recommend policy changes and implement technologies have the potential to benefit transportation as well as climate issues.
• No Magic Bullet-Congestion Ahead—Despite promising technologies, transportation mode modernization requires better policies and more funding.