In many major city centers, high-speed rail service is becoming an attractive alternative to costly short-haul air travel via congested airports.
As a proven leader in railroad technology, ARCADIS helps build and extend the world's most advanced high-speed railways. To allow trains to travel at 185 miles per hour (300 kilometers per hour) with optimum passenger safety and comfort, tracks must be designed as an engineered guideway as straight as possible and extremely stable. Design and construction tolerances are tight, geotechnical considerations are critical, and operators require highly advanced communications and signal capabilities.
Beyond the infrastructure considerations, these projects must also address safe and convenient ways to move passengers on and off the trains, interconnect with existing support systems, and respect the system's environmental impact.
ARCADIS' high-speed rail capabilities include:
- Track and roadbed design
- Site/civil design and surveying
- Geotechnical investigation and analysis
- Transportation planning including NEPA documentation/analysis
- Environmental permitting and compliance
- Program management and construction management
The multidisciplinary advantage
ARCADIS' clients rely on us to bring seasoned, multidiscipline knowledge to bear on high-speed rail projects. Our rail professionals know how to protect the client's cost and schedule constraints.
ARCADIS is also well-versed in the development of public and private partnerships to support the project and perform all the necessary environmental and geotechnical studies with in-house resources.