Passenger Rail and Mass Transit

Booz Allen Hamilton provides strategy and technology consulting services to federal, regional, and local transit authorities. We provide innovative and pragmatic solutions that build on the functional expertise and industry experience of our senior transportation professionals. Our expertise extends to policy and planning, financing, contracting, operations strategy, design and manufacturing engineering, procurement, operations, maintenance, and information technology. We have experience in all modes of fixed guideway transit including automated peoplemovers, light rail, heavy rail, and commuter rail. We also have worked with all major transit agencies in our nation and many others worldwide.

Our Work

Our work with entities across this industry gives us the perspective and knowledge to help transportation clients address current challenges and consider future-oriented opportunities.

Our Capabilities

Booz Allen’s core transportation capabilities reflect our deep functional expertise and industry experience and include business planning and transit management; vehicle, control and communications engineering; procurement and acquisition management; system integration; safety, reliability and maintainability; and transportation technology. The total range of capabilities offered by Booz Allen within the transportation arena include strategy and technology services that benefit from best practices in related industries, such as energy, environment, and space and aviation:

• Assurance and Resilience
• Economics and Business Analysis
• Information Technology
• Intelligence and Operations Analysis
• Modeling and Simulation
• Organization and Strategy
• Safety and Security
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Systems Engineering and Integration

Career Opportunities

Explore career opportunities at the leading edge of passenger rail and mass transit.

Additional Information

• High-Speed Rail: The Future is (Almost) Here—Interview with high-speed rail expert Carolyn Hayward, who spent 15 years servicing the European rail market.
• Improving Infrastructure Can Improve the U.S. Economy—Interview with Vice President Gary Schulman, who participated in a June 30, 2009, Aspen Ideas Festival panel titled “Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure.”
• Innovative Pilot Program Uses Mobile Phones to Pay for Transit Rides, Food—Booz Allen and partners launch a 4-month trial program at San Francisco’s BART transit system—the first in the nation—to not only use mobile phones to pay for both fares and food at quick-serve restaurants, but also reload the mobile “wallet” over the air.