Light Rapid Transport

Faber Maunsell provides a comprehensive service covering the planning, design, procurement and implementation of light rail systems.

Rising traffic congestion threatens to stifle the growth of cities and lead to environmentally unsustainable patterns of land use and travel. Attractive, high quality, competitive public transport can help reverse these trends and offer a more sustainable future for Europe's cities. Light rail offers an effective solution on busy corridors in large and medium-sized cities. The benefits have been recognised. Many schemes have been implemented and more are planned.

Faber Maunsell is the UK market leader in the planning and implementation of light rail projects. We offer a comprehensive service covering the whole life cycle of projects from initial concept through planning, design and construction to post-completion monitoring and re-planning to improve performance.

The services we provide include:

• Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
• Market research
• Ridership and revenue forecasting
• Operational planning
• Engineering design
• Utility diversion studies
• Traffic management
• Environmental assessment
• Financial and economic appraisal
• Funding studies
• Procurement advice
• Concession bid management
• Revenue and technical due diligence
• Site supervision
• Health and safety
• Development of long term asset management systems
• Post-completion monitoring
• Re-planning to improve performance.

We are working on most of the major projects currently being developed in the UK including Edinburgh Tram (Lines 2 & 3), Leeds Supertram, Manchester Metrolink, Merseytram, South Yorkshire Supertram, Nottingham Express Transit, Midland Metro and Docklands Light Railway.

For more information on our experience and capabilities please contact Jonathan Oakes.