Quetica’s Mark Berndt presents at TRB’s Transforming the Marine Transportation System through Multimodal Freight Analytics conference in Washington, D.C.  The documentation for Mr. Brendt’s presentation titled, Applying Multimodal Freight Network Optimization to Public Sector Investment Decisions, is accessible using the link below. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conferences/2018/CMTS/MTS_PDF/12A.MarkBerndt.pdf

Why is it so difficult for farmers operating just outside the city of Chicago to sell to people living there? This was the question that led a team of researchers (including Quetica’s Ben Zielow) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to explore urban food logistics. Their work, published in a report entitled Regional Food Freight: Lessons from the Chicago […]

Quetica employees and their families participated in the Equity On Ice event at TRIA Rink at Treasure Island Center in Saint Paul. Capital City Properties, the not-for-profit arm of the Saint Paul Port Authority, has established the Equity on Ice fund. One-hundred percent of all funds raised will be directed to other nonprofit organizations that leverage ice-related […]

The Saint Paul Port Authority project at Southport Terminal received a grant through the state’s Port Development Assistance Program to install a rail spur extension, rehab a connecting rail spur and pave a reinforced loading/unloading pad. https://www.dot.state.mn.us/newsrels/18/01/24portdevelopment.html The Saint Paul Port Authority owns and manages four barge terminals in Saint Paul along the Mississippi river, […]

Quetica’s Dr. Weiwen Xie presented findings from recent research conducted in Midwestern States on the true origin of agriculture exports reported in FHWA’s FAF database. During a podium session titled: Agriculture Commodity Data: Challenges & Applications, Dr. Xie showed that FAF export data indicates that states like Texas, Louisiana and Washington were the largest export […]

Ben Zietlow, a freight planner at Quetica, was recently published in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board for his research utilizing USDOT’s Intermodal Transportation and Inventory Cost Model to estimate potential modal diversions from truck to truck-to-rail intermodal for Wisconsin shippers. Benjamin Zietlow | (651) 964.4646 x862 | Benjamin.zietlow@quetica.com    

Quetica recently opened an office in Dallas, Texas that serves public and private sector clients in supply chain optimization, freight transportation planning, information technology, payments, general management consulting, and civil engineering. Quetica™ is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business with five locations (MN, WI, IA, CO, TX) and provides hands-on practical expertise and world class solutions to […]

Ben Zietlow joins Quetica to continue growing the company’s expanding public sector freight planning and supply chain optimization practice. Prior to joining Quetica, Ben was a Geoeconomist for the National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research & Education (CFIRE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a position he held since February of 2012. At CFIRE, Ben’s […]

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts hosted more than 400 community, education and business leaders to learn about unique opportunities and challenges facing Nebraska’s economy. Rick Langer was a featured speaker at the summit. “Ongoing developments in transportation are at the forefront of a company’s ability to manage an evolving supply chain, and Nebraska’s logistics infrastructure can […]

Working together with the Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce and BWBR Architects, Eric Beazley, Quetica, and Max Musicant, The Musicant Group, recently spoke to a group of emerging and current civil and business leaders at a Leadership Saint Paul workshop to discuss the programming transformation of the property adjacent to the Light Rail Central Station […]