Design of high speed rail infrastructure, stations and masterplans
With the high investment costs associated with high-speed rail we understand the significance of providing good value for money and high performing assets that are efficient to maintain.
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From route, tunnels, viaducts and tracks to trains, stations and surrounding masterplans, our leading team of multidisciplinary experts work with clients to design transformative high-speed railways.
Our tunnelling and rail design experts ensure that schemes manage to align both climate and cost imperatives, finding ways to reduce the resources and materials used in construction and plan for their eventual renewal or replacement. We also bring our deep domain expertise of operational railways into design thinking for rail maintenance depots.
Our specialist rail architecture and design team approach every project with the passenger and ‘user’ experience at the heart of decision-making. This helps ensure stations are intuitive and a joy to use, complement their surroundings, and are efficient to maintain. Our global experience blending function with elegance in a cost-effective manner, such as our kit-of-parts design approach, ensures maintenance and replacements remain affordable over the rail system's full lifespan.
We also use a place-based approach to decision-making for rail projects, meaning that every choice relating to the route, station or design is evaluated for its potential to deliver wider economic prosperity, strengthen social connectivity, and regenerate urban and rural areas.
Florence’s new iconic train station will become the heart of the country’s high-speed rail network, providing a mass transit connecting point for the new train lines and embedding different mass transit systems firmly within the fabric of the city.
The Transit Oriented Development (TOD), designed by Foster + Partners and engineered by Arup, will provide a crucial mass transit interchange node for Italy’s new high speed rail network, and become a vital new hub for Florence, connected with the existing station at Santa Maria Novella.
The Florence high speed train station will be Arup’s largest and most complex transport building project in Italy, and its first deep structure. Arup was appointed to develop the structural and building services design and provided comprehensive, specialist engineering services including geotechnics, fire, seismic design, transportation, security and risk consulting, façade engineering, access and maintenance, acoustic consulting, construction planning and programme and project management.
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Projects
Explore more rail projects:

An ambitious station modernization program for New York’s subway system
MTA Enhanced Station Initiative, United States of America

Managing and supporting the delivery of sustainability services for California’s high-speed rail system
California High-Speed Rail Systemwide Sustainability Program, United States of America

Designing California’s Central Valley high-speed rail stations and establishing a system-wide station kit of parts
California High-Speed Rail Central Valley Stations, United States of America

A new integrated transport hub for Northern Ireland
Belfast Grand Central Station, United Kingdom
High speed and intercity rail
We support governments, asset owners and rail operators across every facet of a scheme’s development. Our approach is to maximise the economic, social and environmental benefits.
