Metro and urban rail infrastructure, stations and masterplans
Given the high investment costs associated with any rail scheme, we understand the significance of providing good value for money and high performing assets that are efficient to maintain.
From route, tunnels, viaducts and tracks to trains, stations and surrounding masterplans, our leading team of multidisciplinary experts work with clients to design transformative urban railways.
Our tunnelling and rail designers ensure that schemes manage to align both climate and cost imperatives, finding ways to reduce the resources and materials used in construction. Our geotechnics expertise enables clients to build infrastructure safely and with minimal impact to structures and life below and above ground. We also bring our deep domain expertise of operational railways into the design of rail maintenance depots.
Our specialist rail architecture and design team approach every project with the passenger and user experience at the centre of decision-making. This helps ensure stations are intuitive and enjoyable 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 adopt a place-based mindset when shaping rail projects, ensuring that the route, the stations and wider developments deliver wider economic benefits, strengthen social connectivity, and regenerate urban and rural areas.
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Learn more about our work and how our services can support your project:
Projects
Explore more high-speed and faster rail projects:
A vital link from Bangkok’s city centre to the east
MRT Orange Line East Section, Thailand
Transforming transit in one of the largest metropolitan areas in North America
GO Expansion – On-Corridor Works (OnCorr), Canada
Quantifying supply chain emissions for Dandenong South Inland Port
Dandenong South Inland Port: Supply Chain Emissions Assessment, Australia
Conducting climate proofing assessments of railway projects for Deutsche Bahn
Climate proofing railway infrastructure, Germany
Commuter and mainline rail
Across the world, Arup has been at the forefront of urban transit for more than 40 years, working with clients to unlock the transformative potential rail systems offer. Our international team helps clients to take projects from initial vision to operational reality, whether a completely new urban rail project or a major extension of an existing network.
