Rail Systems Solutions

Our deep understanding and experience are not only in the design of rail systems. It also includes phasing, outage planning, and constructability. How can we achieve maximum efficiency during construction while minimizing outages and keeping operations moving at-pace? Our talented teams serve as your advocate and partner on every aspect of the project to turn your vision into reality. From initial planning through testing in the field and commissioning, our decades of project management fulfillment ensure that whatever the need, clients can count on us to deliver constructible solutions with increased quality, maintainable schedules and budgets, and most importantly, reduced risk.

Maintainable and operational-oriented rail networks need to be seamlessly connected with systems solutions that work properly upon implementation. Coordination across disciplines is foremost in our approach to achieve maximum results while safely keeping trains moving.

By continuously adding new and vital technologies like our TAROS® suite of design and operations software, these simulation software tools solve the practical problems of planning, design, installation, operation, and maintenance. With the right people, technologies, and approach, we can create a smooth transition to each phase of the project life cycle through to operation while making sure operations are safe and efficient for years to come.

Gannett Fleming has experience and skills to take on any type of rail systems project, including on freight, passenger, and local networks. Our professionals take a systems-wide approach and understand a wide range of communication systems, as well as excel at integrating all components – from track, traction power, signaling/train control, and OCS – into successful broad operational systems.

For decades, we’ve been engaged in Class I and regional railroad projects, providing comprehensive systems services to railroad clients throughout the country. We are knowledgeable in railroad industry operations, use state-of-the-art technology, and recognize the railroad’s ability to strengthen business and customer service through system and operational improvements. Our rail system solutions seamlessly integrate into your operation, so you stay on track before, during, and after the project is complete.

Railway signaling, from basic block signal systems to modern automatic train control, positive train control, and communications-based train control has been the foundation of our business for almost 50 years. We employ one of the largest signaling and train control teams in North America and are among some of the most prominent capital estimators. Our staff specializes in providing detailed hardware design and software programming. Our solutions integrate existing technologies to new advanced systems, assuring safety while optimizing throughput and customer service.

For transit agencies, changes in traction power system configurations can have a major effect on customer service, signals, and electrical performance, as well as capital and operations budgets. Our simulator software tools, including load flow modeling, help rail operators better manage planned and unplanned events. Operators can use simulation to evaluate the impact of varying scenarios, such as changes in schedules and train network configurations, as well as to model engineering designs of new systems and improvements to existing systems. These innovative tools are supported by decades of experience working with operators and owners in the planning, design, operation, and management of transit and rail systems.

Bringing decades of expertise, we understand simple contact and trolley systems to the most complex, including both AC and DC systems. Our knowledge of bonding and grounding of rail infrastructure and adjacent third-party facilities, combined with broad experience in the planning, design, testing, and inspection of high-speed, commuter, intercity, and light rail catenary systems provide you with confidence that our solutions will accomplish your needs.

As our world moves toward cleaner energy and electrification of its transportation fleet, rail systems will benefit from forward-thinking teams of transit professionals to study and plan for when sustainable railways make financial and logistical sense. Gannett Fleming’s broad portfolio of e-fleet rail systems, diesel conversion, and electrification projects means decarbonizing rail systems is possible and many times preferable in today’s push for sustainable transportation solutions.

• Advisory services.
• Bridges, structures, & tunnels.
• Communications systems.
• Crossings (grade, signalized, grade-separated).
• Electrification & energy solutions.
• Field testing.
• Fueling service facilities.
• Geotechnical.
• Industrial sidings & spurs.
• Interlockings.
• Intermodal & automotive facilities.
• Intermodal connectivity.
• Lay-up and storage facilities.
• Locomotive & car wash facilities.
• Maintenance-of-way and administration buildings.
• Maintenance shops.
• Operations planning & simulation/TAROS.
• Overhead contact systems.
• Passenger systems.
• Planning, design, & construction.
• Requirements management.
• Revenue management & technology systems.
• Signal/train control (ATC, PTC, CBTC).
• Substations.
• Surveying.
• Systems engineering & integration.
• Systems safety and certification.
• Systems specific PM/CM.
• Track & right of way.
• Traction power load flow.
• Utility relocation.
• Zero-emissions.