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Bengt Mutén
Career History
- Mutén & Associates, Inc. - President
- DNS Associates, Inc. - Vice President, Consulting Services
- University of California - Research Assistant, Institute for Transportation Studies
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Research Assistant, Center for
Transportation Studies
- Swedish Air Force Reserve - First Lieutenant and Battalion Logistics Officer
Educational Background
- M.S. in Civil Engineering - University of California at Berkeley
- B.S. in Management Science - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Significant Career Experience
Fifteen years of diverse multimodal experience in the transportation industry
- (at Mutén & Associates, Inc.) Founder of a management consulting firm dedicated
to providing strategic planning to the transportation industry, using state-of-the art
tools and techniques. Clients include Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern,
Canadian National, Wisconsin Central and International Business Machines. Typical
projects are merger analysis, line divestitures and acqusitions, and software
development.
- (at DNS Associates, Inc.) Responsible for consulting practice, studies predicting
traffic, revenues and costs for strategic planning, regulatory evidence, and
negotiation support. Has undertaken applications involving large and complex
transportation databases.
- Responsible for developing and implementing the DNS Traffic Diversion Model.
This state-of-the-art model develops a route for every shipment in a waybill sample,
taking into account proposed mergers, including station and junction closings, line
transfers and deregulation. This model was developed in association with Norfolk
Southern Corporation and has been used by a number of other railroads. It was used
for the traffic diversion study presented by Southern Pacific - Santa Fe in its merger
application to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and for internal studies
by a number of Class I railroads.
- Expanded this model to include line sales, abandonments, and trackage rights
agreements. This has been used to study the potentials of a number of regional
railroads (i.e., Wisconsin Central, Paducah & Louisville, and Wheeling & Lake Erie
railways).
- Developed the DNS Interactive Rail Route and Cost Model that provides users with
rapid and flexible routing and costing of a rail shipment. Developed programs for
graphic plotting of rail networks, including line densities by direction.
- Conducted studies of market concentration and foreclosures on behalf of several
railroads that raised objections to pending mergers, including Kansas City Southern,
the Denver and Rio Grande Western, and Grand Trunk Western. Identified
hazardous material flows for the North Central Texas Council of Governments.
Identified volumes and market share in a traffic lane in which the railroad Illinois
Central Gulf Railroad was considering the sale of its line to another carrier.
- Worked with individual carrier's historical traffic data to assist in the development
of a State Rail Plan for the state of South Dakota to identify interchange traffic
affected by a proposed merger and to prepare data for input to the carrier's planning
software.
- Coordinated the technical support for a study of the economics of the purchase of
certain Eastern rail lines and operations of the lines as a railroad. Assisted in a study
for a major shipper of the economics of the purchase and operation of certain lines
scheduled for abandonment.
- (Research Assistant at the Institute for Transportation Studies at University of
California at Berkeley) Responsible for researching available technologies to
investigate runway occupancy times of landing aircraft for the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA). Served as the data analyst for a study of the feasibility of a suburban air
terminal in the San Francisco Bay Area for the California Department of Trans-
portation.
- (At MIT) Analyzed statistics of public bus use and compared findings to socio-
economic data for the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in an effort to forecast
transportation demands. Conducted a study of the Volvo Transit Demand Model, a
model that estimates the demand for transit services and schedule services, to
evaluate its effectiveness an application for a certain UMTA project.
- (Royal Swedish Air Force) Was trained as a logistics officer of a reserve air
battalion, coordinating logistics of food transportation, and fuel, etc. for the unit on
a multimodal basis. Worked in Sweden for a trainman for
A.B. Storstockholms
Lokaltrafiks Järnvägar, the Stockholm County commuter rail system.
- Professional Associations
Hugh W. Stewart
Career History
- DNS Associates, Inc. - President
- Day and Zimmermann, Inc. - Vice President, Consulting Services Division
- RCA Corporation - Manager, Product Planning, Graphic Systems Division
- RCA Corporation - Manager, System Performance Analysis -BMEWS
Educational Background
Significant Career Experience
Over thirty years' experience in operations analysis simulation technology and electronics
research, which includes fifteen years of railroad operations and cost modeling, primarily
related to merger and various restructuring studies.
- (President of DNS Associates, Inc.) Developed solutions to the transportation and
distribution problems. Co-authored DNS microURCS PC for Costing Model.
Developed the design concepts for DNS Diversion Analysis Model, which has been
used extensively for strategic planning by the Norfolk Southern, Santa Fe-Southern
Pacific, etc. Co-authored the DNS Rail Form A Costing Model used by Diversion
Analysis Model. In summation, experience includes development, implementation,
and application of cost systems based on Rail Form "A," URCS, and management
cost systems.
- Implemented a network model for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad using OCM.
Conducted simulations of future alternatives in corporate planning. Directed the
implementation of a network model of the Milwaukee Railroad, using an enhanced
version of OCM for use in developing the corporate reorganization plan recently
filed in federal bankruptcy court.
- Initiated and coordinated extensive analyses of traffic for The Milwaukee Road for
use in forecasting traffic and evaluating alternative system configurations and
markets. Recently directed the technical development of software systems to assist
railroad management in decision making. Systems include the DNS Marketing
Analysis Programming System (MAPS), for retrieval and analysis, and a
management costing system.
- Conceived and initiated development of model to create improved blocking
strategies for all rail systems and models for car hire, fleet size estimation, and barge
operation.
- (Beginning in 1971) Served as Vice President of the Consulting Services Division
of Day and Zimmermann, Inc. Directed the development and implementation of a
series of increasingly detailed rail network models. Responsible for four models of
the Penn Central system, developed and used in the reorganization process. The first
was used to isolate an 11,000 mile "viable core" configuration; the second produced
forecasts of the revenues and costs of the core; the third segregated costs by leased
line; and the fourth included passenger and other special operations.
- (1974) Directed the application of the fourth model to evaluate Conrail as part of the
Preliminary System Plan effort as USRA. An advanced version of this model, the
Conrail Analysis Model (CRAM), was an important element in the process of
developing the Final System Plan. Most of the operating expense forecasts were
developed with this model, and a variety of special runs were made to evaluate the
sensitivity of Conrail to variations in the volume forecasts.
- Conceived and directed the development of the Operations and Costing Methodology
(OCM) for the United States Railway Association, which provided a detailed
network simulation of railroad operations and costs and was used by the USRA in
forecasting and evaluating the Conrail performance.
- Directed a network analysis effort to identify a United States "core" rail network for
the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). This required the development of new
methods to annualize the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) Carload
Waybill Sample and creative methods to route traffic.
- Directed the implementation of OCM model of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad
as part of an FRA project.
- (From 1956 to 1971) Served in a succession of positions of increasing responsibility
for RCA Corporation, culminating in the position of Manager of Product Planning
for the Graphic Systems Division: Conducted a cost-benefit analysis for various
applications of electronic phototypesetting setting systems. Created a cost model for
newspaper composing room operations. Implemented a statistical model of rail
warning capability and reliability of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System.
Developed a model of television camera capabilities for evaluating military
applications.
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