About

Sutra Research provides excellence in these services:

•      Technology Project Management & Planning;
•      Systems Engineering & Architecture;
•      Organizational Development, Strategic Planning & Change Management;
•      Stakeholder Engagement & Outreach;
•      Freight Transportation Planning and Technology Consulting;
•      Passenger Transportation & Transit Planning…

…to public agencies and private organizations. Sutra is based in San Diego, California, USA and serves clients worldwide.

Sutra designs clear, thoughtful, and comprehensive solutions for complex projects. We listen and observe first. Our people are compassionate, quality-driven, results-oriented, and dedicated to enhancing the productivity, professionalism, and integrity of your project and team. Sutra’s principals have three decades of experience, excellent professional reputations, and sustained relationships with all clients, past and present. We craft solutions with the larger picture in mind and an eye toward creating the highest benefit for the people responsible for and affected by each project, process, and technology implementation. Efficiency, elegance, reliability, sensible integration, robustness, equity and environmental responsibility are among our target outcomes.

Sutra provides expertise to government agencies and private organizations in acquisition, integration, migration, and evolution of technologies and systems to streamline operations and comply with technology program requirements, specializing in transportation planning, systems engineering, technology & business integration, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), freight and commercial vehicle operations (CVO), parking and parking facilities, stakeholder & stakeholder and community engagement, change and organizational development facilitation, transit and active transportation research and planning. Sutra also specializes in integrating real-world freight and commercial vehicle operations experience into strategic planning and systems engineering projects.

Sutra’s new sister organization, Wiser Everyday, provides board of directors development, organizational development, leadership, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence consulting, training, and guidance to corporations, public agencies, non-profit organizations, and individuals. Sutra’s work through Wiser Everyday rounds out our offerings to ensure that projects are conducted, technology problems are solved, and organizations are guided by leaders with clarity, mindfulness, and resilience resulting in more consistently successful outcomes.

Sutra is woman-owned, Native American-owned, Hispanic-owned and operated company certified by:

• Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) by the State of Oregon, Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity (COBID)
• Small Business Enterprise (SBE) by the California Department of General Services (DGS)
• Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) by the California Unified Certification Program (CUCP)
• Underutilized Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (UDBE) by the California Unified Certification Program (CUCP)
• Small Local Business Enterprise (SLBE) by the City of San Diego
• Small Business Enterprise (SBE) by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro)
• Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) by the State of Oregon, Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity (COBID)