LINARE Consulting is a highly capable professional services firm which specializes in local, regional and statewide transportation ` planning and research, for all transportation modes, passenger and freight, with special emphasis on data collection and analysis, and agency and public coordination for transportation and economic development purposes.

The firm was formed in 1997, based on nearly two decades of experience of the firms founder, Nika Linarelli Matzzie. The firm has remained fiscally viable for its seven years of operation, and is currently debt-free.

LINARE Consulting is a Woman Business Enterprise with DBE certification by the Pennsylvania and Ohio Departments of Transportation and the Port Authority of Allegheny County, PA, and SERB certification by the Department of General Services of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Areas of Speciality

• Design and conduct of surveys related to transportation and economic development.
• Analytic data collection in support of research projects.
• Multi-modal passenger and freight transportation planning.
• Freight facilities market analysis, conceptual design and feasibility analysis.
• Travel demand surveys.
• Travel demand modeling.
• Statewide transportation planning.
• Application of geographic information systems (GIS) to transportation.
• Economic and employment impacts of freight transportation facilities and systems.
• Design and application of modern data base management methods.
• Agency and public outreach for transportation project development.
• Preparation of content and production of industrial site directories related to transportation.