Mercer Management Consulting Acquires MultiModal Applied Systems

Mercer Management Consulting, Inc., has acquired MultiModal Applied Systems, Inc., a Princeton, New Jersey-based market leader in railway systems planning and service design software. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. MultiModal Applied Systems, founded in 1992, builds MultiRail(R), the industry-standard software system for freight and passenger railway operations and schedule planning. MultiModal's software and strategies have been implemented by many of the world's major railroads, including all of the North American Class I carriers. Other MultiModal products and services include operating plan design, railway merger and privatization analysis, line capacity planning, real-time marshalling plan management, crew and locomotive optimization, yield management, and custom software development. Mercer Management Consulting serves clients from 23 offices in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The firm is one of the Mercer Specialty Consulting businesses of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC).