Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. We provide the engineering and related consultancy services necessary to every stage of the project, from inception to completion and after.

In the Rail sector, Arup’s portfolio of work as part of our global rail business encompasses all modes of rail, from high speed, underground, and urban transport systems. Arup’s services incorporate everything that can ensure the successful planning, design and completion of economic, state-of-the-art, sustainable rail systems. With the global railway business estimated to be worth €100bn a year and growing, rail is being increasingly understood to be an efficient, safe and relatively low-carbon method of public transport.

With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, Arup’s creativity and reputation for working at the cutting edge means appropriate solutions are delivered to clients, ranging from project creation, planning and feasibility studies, to systems engineering, multidisciplinary design, and project management. Arup also addresses whole-life issues that include safety, reliability, operability and maintenance, and the critical interfaces between the engineered solution and the human element for operators of the system, users and third parties.

Arup provides engineering consultancy and delivery for all aspects of rail infrastructure design, taking rail projects through their complete lifecycle. Designs for permanent way, bridges, tunnelling, station planning, civil engineering and earthworks are integrated with signalling, telecommunications and traction power designs, into multi-disciplinary projects to produce optimum and economic solutions.