Carl Van Dyke is a Partner in the Surface Transportation Group of Oliver Wyman.  He has spent over 25 years focused on the application of computers to transportation engineering and operations issues, with particular emphasis on railroad network modeling, service design, train scheduling, line capacity analysis, and equipment management.  In 1992 he founded MultiModal Applied Systems, which became part of Oliver Wyman at the start of 2006.  Carl is best known for leading the design, creation and application of the MultiRail planning products, which have been used by every major North American freight railroad, as well as many other railroads around the world.  Over the past decade Oliver Wyman/MultiModal has had a hand in the redesign of the operating plans of every major North American railroad, and is now pursuing a similar role in Europe.  Before founding MultiModal, Carl was a consultant and later, Vice President of ALK Associates, Inc.  While at ALK, he also served as President of Fleet Management, Inc., a company providing central management of railway car fleets.  He also has worked as an independent consultant and a researcher at MIT.   His work with Canadian Pacific resulted in winning the 2003 Franz Edelman Prize in Operations Research from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).  Carl received a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from MIT with a concentration in transportation.