Challenges
Facilities and stations are the backbone of the transit industry. We develop and deliver architectural and engineering designs for all transportation projects, including rail, bus, and maintenance and storage facilities, and we do it on time, on budget, and in full compliance with health and safety regulations and sustainability standards. Our team of industry-leading experts will provide innovative, sustainable solutions for all your facilities’ needs.
Capabilities
Maintenance and Storage Facilities
Most railroad and transit operations are dependent on specialized maintenance facilities that are either aging or in need of upgrade to meet the technological advancements of fleets like high-speed trainsets, urban passenger transit cars, or new zero-emissions buses. When you need to plan your maintenance infrastructure and equipment life extension or replacement, we can perform the required inspection and assessment and prepare recommendations, cost estimates, and technical specifications, as well as support you for procurement and installation.
Our dedicated team of highly specialized industrial engineers have decades of experience in fleet maintenance experience, facility upgrades, and completely new facility designs to accommodate rolling stock, including fueling and charging. We assist in the integration of storage yards to maximize function and utility for cleaning, inspection, maintenance, storage of revenue-service fleets, delivery logistics, and material control.
We can evaluate maintenance facility throughput using process engineering tools based on fleet-specific and regulatory requirements, and warranty requirements provided by suppliers. Our process engineering tools break down the individual tasks required and reflecting variability inputs, including worker productivity rates and activity probability for a given vehicle at the facility on a given visit. No options are left unchecked.
Stations and Stops
Our multidisciplinary station design team is experienced with at-grade, elevated, underground, and trenched stations. We can evaluate optimal station configurations and integrated urban solutions for various alignment options, analyze trade-offs with alternative platform configurations and provide dynamic modeling to validate passenger flows and level of service. Whether you need new networks or are introducing new platforms on existing networks, we deliver sustainable urban planning and interior design for a wide range of transit facilities, including new stations, passenger rail and bus facilities, emergency buildings, traction power substations and utility buildings.
Yards and Supporting Facilities
You need to optimize track configuration and test the flow of trains entering and leaving facilities, and our team will help by designing and modeling rail yards, using Rail Traffic Controller (RTC), OpenTrack, and our own TrainOps® simulation software. We can help determine which yard designs best meet peak operational demands on major yards with varying usable track lengths and car/train length demands using our Track Assignment Utility.
And for the specialized transit facilities, we can deliver on the extra mechanical, electrical, and communications services, including complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis for tunnel ventilation, and underground rail carrying structures. We design facilities for rail vehicles and buses, identify stop spacing and placement, design stop shelters and parking facilities, and provide traffic analysis, signal priority planning, and transportation impact studies.
“The scope of the work was really well understood, and the deliverables were above of expectations.”