Company Profile
TranSystems
Company Overview
MILES OF EXPERTISE ACROSS EVERY SECTOR OF THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY.
TranSystems brings to its clients an unusually wide reach and depth of resources in developing solutions for the world of transportation. We are focused on providing consulting expertise to enhance the overall transportation experience. We bring unique and innovative solutions to your transportation infrastructure challenges to facilitate the movement of goods and people by creating an integrated transportation system around nine key market sectors – freight rail, passenger rail and transit, states and municipalities, aviation, manufacturing and distribution, maritime, trucking, energy and communications, and the federal government.
Through long experience and a dedicated focus on transportation issues, we are aware of the many vital stakeholders involved in transportation projects of any size: the public sector, the private sector, citizens, commercial interests, all overlapping in a common cause of moving people and goods. We see the big picture and understand how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together. Whether designing infrastructure, developing winning business strategies, improving supply chain efficiencies or providing professional security services, we’re dedicated to bringing a dynamic community of transportation professionals and a comprehensive suite of services to each project to deliver superior solutions for our client’s strategic, operational, and structural needs.
Working with TranSystems allows you access to an experienced team of industry professionals with subject matter expertise in a variety of disciplines, along with the capabilities to provide support through the entire program lifecycle from problem-solving and planning through design and construction management to operations and program management. They don’t just provide a service, but help you know what they know. The TranSystems client service team operates as a seamless extension of your organization. Forming a deep understanding of your objectives and challenges, we make it easy for you to track progress across multiple projects through continual, proactive communication delivering value through effective and efficient project management and execution.
A mid-sized firm, comprised of nearly 1,000 professionals in 37 offices throughout the US, TranSystems is committed to providing clients in all modes of transportation architecture, engineering, planning, real estate, security, and management consulting services to be successful in their endeavors by providing a safe and efficient transportation system for the end-user – the people who drive on the infrastructure we design, work in the buildings that we conceive, and take the processes that we model and make them successful.
Company History
Before it took on its final shape and name, TranSystems had its origins as a small transportation planning firm based in Kansas City, five people strong, with revenues to match. The core firm was organized in 1966 as Johnson, Brickell, Mulcahy Associates Engineers and Planners (JBM), with specialized expertise in traffic coordination. For a number of years the only type of work pursued or undertaken were traffic studies, with occasional forays into signal work.
The firm’s initial strategic plan was developed in 1989, laying the groundwork for growth in the industry first by developing design capabilities to augment its planning practice, and second by expanding its ability to deliver services closer to clients by opening several offices in the Midwest. The first business combination took place in 1990; the deal was closed with a handshake across the table in an airport diner in Hutchison, Kan. A number of business combinations and key hires followed, each bringing to the firm distinguished subject matter experts that helped solidify our firm’s circle of relationships with clients and potential clients. This first stage of the company’s growth took revenues from under $1 million in 1989 to $20 million in 1995, employees from five to 190, and from a single office to multiple offices in the Midwest ranging from Chicago to Texas.
The next iteration of the strategic plan, developed in 1995, built on the vision of the first, with a new goal, the intention of becoming a comprehensive service provider to the transportation industry. This intention required the gathering of expertise along each of the major transportation sectors, a reach beyond the delivery of engineering services only, and an organization built to support these aggressive goals. The original focus on states and municipalities and maritime were now broadened to include freight rail and the federal sector as viable businesses. Already, TranSystems had identified its special strength: its ability to cross over the different modes of transporting people and goods and bringing solutions to their common points of contact. The original Board of Directors was established in this same year with representatives from each of the founding firms, with Brian Larson serving as the firm’s founding CEO/President and Chairman. ‘TranSystems’ proper was born in late 1995 as JBM, Boyd, Brown, Stude & Cambern (BBSC), and Vickerman, Zackery, Miller (VZM) undertook a three-way business combination, one that firmly fixed the company with its enduring transportation focus.
The next ten years consolidated TranSystems’ position in the marketplace, taking revenues from $20 million to $125 million. All market sectors were “filled out” – freight rail, passenger rail, states and municipalities, aviation, the supply chain, ports and maritime, trucking and automotive, energy and communications, and the federal government. Its network of office expanded into all major population centers and most states.
The most recent milestone in the firm’s development came in 2006, when the company again drew together its leadership to establish the next initiative: services in architecture, engineering, and planning were to be considered as one line of business, and were to be supported by parallel lines of business in supply chain management, real estate, and security consulting. Such services are identified, developed, and honed within the lines of business, and then delivered through the market sectors. Governance and management of the firm’s operations have also evolved. The Board of Directors is now comprised of members from outside of the company and who are luminaries within several of the client sectors we serve. In October 2009 Mr. Larson announced the placement of Paul Malir as the company’s President succeeding himself in that role.
Today, with annual revenues in excess of $200 million, the firm is comprised of 37 offices serving all the major transportation, commercial, and industrial centers of the nation, approximately 1,000 professionals committed to identifying and solving the transportation issues of our clients. From undertaking several dozen projects a year, it now delivers more than 4,000. It ranks high on industry and magazine listings, and counts among its clients premier agencies and organizations in every state, from departments of Transportation to Fortune 100 firms.
Notable Clients
Federal Government, DOT's, Airports, Rail, Cities and Municipalities
Benefits
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