
Uinta Basin Railway Project, Utah, USA
The Uinta Basin Railway project will connect the industries in the Uinta Basin region to the national rail network.
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The following is a small selection of some recent projects.
Client: Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive
We are undertaking a major study to carry out the preliminary design and parliamentary submission for the Glasgow Airport Rail Link. This includes a review of the economic case, engineering scheme development of existing twin track lines and a new spur to an airport station, environmental and land-use assessment, and public and stakeholder consultation. Significant works are also planned for Glasgow Central Station.
Client: South West Trains
We are undertaking the design of new depot works at Farnham and upgrading facilities at Wimbledon and Bournemouth for the replacement Mark 1 rolling stock. The work includes civil engineering, permanent way, signalling and utilities.
Client: Transport Initiatives, Edinburgh
AECOM has been commissioned to undertake the planning, preliminary designs and preparation of material to enable passage of the bill for Line Two of the Edinburgh Tram network through the Scottish Parliament. The area covered by the line comprises a large and significant proportion of the existing and future key business, investment and economic development focal points in the west of the City, the Edinburgh conurbation as a whole, as well as the wider East Central Scotland area.
Client: South Yorkshire PTE
This study examined a series of extensions to the Sheffield Supertram network. It assessed demand and revenue potential, regeneration benefits, infrastructure, and operational feasibility. AECOM also undertook financial and economic evaluations as well as assessing potential funding sources.
Client: National Express Group
We acted as bid managers for the development and evaluation of the initial proposals for this new franchise. This included stakeholder consultation, demand, revenue and economic forecasting, integrated transport proposals, train services and project management.
Client: Network Rail
We are currently appointed on a framework agreement to carry out structural and building services, and planning supervision duties at managed stations for railway estates. Projects to date include refurbishment and retail schemes at Cannon Street, Victoria and Paddington Stations, and detailed examinations of Waterloo and Victoria Stations. We have also completed the detailed design phase of the modern facilities at station project in three regions and Quinquennial structural surveys in Great Western Region.
Client: Construction Group – COMET
AECOM was the lead designer for the COMET group, providing multi-disciplinary design services covering station planning, architecture, civil and structural engineering and M&E, from tender through to completion on site.
Client: Network Rail
We have been involved over many years in supporting Network Rail in the development of its asset management data and processes. Recent projects have included the development of decision support tools for track.
AECOM are members of the Railway Industry Association and Railway Study Association. We hold Link Up qualifications or registrations in all relevant categories (over 160). Our integrated management system assures the quality of our work and we are registered as BS EN ISO 9001:2000 and 14001:2004 – accredited in all our offices.
The Uinta Basin Railway project will connect the industries in the Uinta Basin region to the national rail network.
The Padma Bridge Rail Link project is the biggest railway infrastructure project under construction in Bangladesh.
The Surat Metro rail project aims to improve daily public transportation for seven million people in the city.
The High Speed 1 railway project was implemented in two phases, involving Section 1 and Section 2.
The Tongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye cross-river railway bridge will provide a new cross-border connection between China and Russia.
The Sunbury Line upgrade will deliver improvements to the railway infrastructure on the section between Sunbury and Footscray.
The modernisation of the 399-mile (641.6km) rail route between London and Glasgow and its key divergences to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, was the largest rail project to date in the UK.
One of the busiest railway stations of England’s West Midlands region, the University Station in Birmingham, UK, is being redeveloped into a larger and modern station to be able to handle 7.2 million passengers a year.
South Central light rail extension is a proposed 8.8km-long extension to the existing light rail system in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, US.
New York City in the US led the way with mass transit systems and started operating its first metro line as long ago as 1904. In 1953, control of the system was assumed by the New York City Transit Authority, which also took over the management of all metropolitan bus services.
The upgrading of the Ballarat Line, operating between Melbourne and the Ballarat city in Victoria, commenced in October 2017. The upgrade was completed in January 2021.
Since opening in 1987, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) has been central to the regeneration of east London. Now its significance is far greater than originally envisaged.
Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) is a proposed high-speed railway line between Malaysia’s capital city Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
The Gilbert Road light rail extension project is a 1.9-mile (3.05km) extension of the Gilbert Road light railway in Mesa, Arizona, US.
The Redlands Passenger Rail Project (RPRP) is nine mile-long rail extension currently under development by the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) in California, US.
Cross River Rail is a proposed rail line between Dutton Park and Bowen Hills, two major suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Waterloo Station (Waterloo) is a major railway terminus situated in central London, UK, and falls under the London Borough of Lambeth and Travelcard Zone 1.
Construction on the extension of Southeast light rail system from Lincoln Avenue to RidgeGate Parkway in Douglas County, US, started in May 2016.
Ringwood railway station is located in Melbourne suburb of Ringwood in Victoria, Australia. Built in December 1882, the station serves as a junction for Lilydale and Belgrave lines.
A project to improve the railway line between Aberdeen and Inverness, was approved by Transport Scotland, the national transport agency of Scotland, in March 2014.
Denmark's capital city, København (Copenhagen), took light rail and metro technology to another level in October 2002 by opening an extensive system capable of being operated entirely without drivers. The project gained momentum through the area to be covered not being on the city's S-tog suburban heavy rail network.
Leeds is one of the fastest growing cities in the UK and suffers from chronic road congestion at peak times. It has an e
Dublin is by far the largest city in Ireland, with over a million inhabitants and forecast by the Irish Central Statistics Office to reach over two million in the metropolitan area by 2021.
The £800m Thameslink 2000 scheme will transform services across the whole of the south-east of the UK when it is complete, expected to be 2006. It requires upgrading most of the principal commuter routes feeding into London, the country's largest city.
Nottingham in England's East Midlands forms the core of the UK's seventh largest and third fastest-growing urban area.
The Heathrow Express is a high-speed service link offering the fastest journey time between Heathrow Airport and central London of 16 minutes and 21 minutes to Terminal 5.
Croydon is part of the London conurbation, 15 miles south of the capital's centre. The most populous London borough with a population over 330,000, due to its proximity to central London and own concentration of commercial property, Croydon has heavy outward and inward commuter traffic.
Construction of the extension of London Underground's Jubilee Line from Green Park, through south London and Docklands to Stratford, proved a troublesome project.
The 12.7 mile (20.1km) Midland Metro light rail system links the UK's second largest city, Birmingham, with Wolverhampton to the north-west, the two also connected by a heavy rail main line.
Massive growth in Hong Kong's importance as a trade and business centre brought about many problems for the island's existing infrastructure.
After months of delays and false starts, Taiwan’s 345km (220 miles) high-speed line between Taipei and Kaohsiung finally opened for service on 5 January 2007, when the first fare-paying passengers boarded a 700T trainset at Panchaio station.
Ankara, the Turkish capital, first devised a project to build a light rail metro system in 1987, and was able to take ad
Established in March 2002, Network Rail (NR) took over ownership and responsibility for the rail infrastructure of Engla
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