Freight Transportation and Logistics Solutions 

Core Competency - Global understanding applied to local freight and trade transportation issues for owners of public and private freight transportation systems.  
Multi-modal Expertise - We are known for our broad multimodal background with trucking (highway),  rail intermodal, ports and waterways, inland ports and container depots, air cargo, and warehousing/distribution hubs.  
Skill Sets - Our skills include planning and concept design, market analysis and marketing support, freight flow demand forecasting and economic analysis, supply chain analysis, financing alternatives and funding procurement, institutional development and management consulting.
    
Mode Share & Corridor Optimization Solutions  

Core Competency – Cross-modal performance services for maintaining mobility and safety along high use corridors.  
Mode Share Performance Expertise – We have worked on some of the nation’s most congested urban corridors, most of which have a rich mix of passenger and freight modes.  Our experience is that the mobility challenges usually relate to underdeveloped mode shares due to sub-optimal performance and investment among some of the modes.
Skill Sets - Our services are most applicable in conjunction with long term corridor upgrades and expansions. Optimizing mode shares will effectively reduce long term corridor capacity needs, and hence reduce construction costs, increasing budget flexibility for other needs.  RNO staff have developed and refined a set of mode share performance measures that are based on real world operating parameters.   Our goal is to narrow the gap between policy ideals and practical corridor sustainability. 

Management Consulting 

Core Competency – RNO is the nation’s foremost management consultant for multi-jurisdictional, multi-region and multi-state transportation organizations.  
Multi-jurisdictional Expertise – Our staff are known for their ability to support complex multi-agencies that have banded around economic, trade and transportation development initiatives.
Management Systems – In addition to providing the aforementioned technical and analytical support, we have developed pragmatic management systems and approaches that have been deployed by some of the nation’s largest and most notable multi-agency efforts.      


Sustainable Economic Development Solutions    

Core Competency – Helping communities afford their growth.  
Pragmatic Advise and Expertise – Our work in a range of settings, including double-digit growth Asian economies, fickle economies in the Middle East and Africa, as well as re-surging local US economies from Los Angeles to the Appalachia, gives us a sound basis for understanding what works. 
Skill Sets - We excel at the policy, institutional, business and marketing aspects, and rely on our partners for the analytical, data, forecasting and modeling aspects.