Knowledge Management

PB Consult maintains a leadership position in systems, technology, and procurement processes specific to the transportation industry. What makes us different is that we already understand our clients’ businesses. We offer an integrated team of management consultants who have worked on both sides of the fence to bring about change within an organization. We know what our clients are trying to achieve, and the hindrances they will encounter along the way. Our goal is always to use analytical tools and information to help our clients develop investments that optimize outcomes.

Technology Consulting

To accomplish a truly integrated business process, we work with clients to evolve their organizations’ basic business models into high-level business processes that integrate and streamline processes, activities, inputs, and outputs. PB Consult’s focus is on advising clients during the strategic planning and implementation of information management systems. The result is a well-managed infrastructure program that enhances our clients’ transportation investment analysis, project development, funding acquisition, implement and investment and performance tracking capabilities.

Over the years, our staff have played vital roles in bringing new technology to the transportation industry, including introducing the concept of standardized equipment bar coding to the transit industry, and overseeing the development of an overall technology strategic plan for the transit industry. Comprising senior professionals with expertise in information technology, maintenance management, procurement management materials management, and asset management, PB Consult offers real-world solutions for those responsible for transportation services and facilities.

Procurement Planning

PB Consult offers experts in developing and implementing procurement practices for public agencies – from advice on purchasing, field procurement and materials handling, to analysis of subcontracting and expediting procedures. PB Consult staff have played key roles in reforming the Federal Transit Association’s (FTA) procurement guidelines (4220-1d), and now have the only private sector representative contributing to the FTA-sponsored panel on procurement reform.

Asset Management

PB Consult understands that asset management is a continuous process that links policies with financial planning, programming and performance monitoring to determine if objectives are met. With our extensive experience across the transportation sector, including highway, transit and rail systems, and air, PB Consult’s asset management professionals are able to apply the best principles of engineering, business management, and economics to create a framework for short- and long-term transportation planning. PB Consult is part of some innovative assignments around the country to define the future of asset management, and to help transportation agencies understand what asset management means for them. We are working to establish an asset management guidebook through the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), a resource that will undoubtedly become an industry standard.

PB Consult employs staff who are routinely engaged in policy-level decision making with governments and private-sector chief executives to formulate and execute highway programs and strategies. Representative topics included highway financing, privatization, asset management and institutional strengthening. Our staff have assessed major departments of transportation, like the Texas DOT, to recommend the best solution for implementing a management system that would allow the agency to make better, more timely decisions on how to best manage its assets.

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