PB to manage US rail projects
Balfour Beatty has announced that Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), its recently acquired professional services business, has been awarded three new contracts to manage high-speed and intercity passenger rail projects in Illinois, Ohio and Florida.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has selected PB as programme manager for the high-speed rail, 284-mile signature route from Chicago to St Louis, with $1.1bn (£725m) in Federal high-speed rail funding targeted for this project.
The Ohio Department of Transport has selected a PB-led team to provide consultant services for the development of a new intercity passenger rail service on an existing rail freight corridor in the Cleveland-Columbus-Dayton-Cincinnati ’3C’ corridor, a distance of approximately 250 miles.
PB will carry out environmental work for various components and design for the track and capacity improvements. The project has been awarded funding of $400m by the US Federal Railroad Administration.
In Florida, PB will lead the consulting team selected by the Florida Department of Transportation to undertake the planning and design of a 230-mile high-speed rail line between Orlando and Miami.
The project involves preliminary engineering and environmental analysis, which includes recommending the final alignment and train technology to be used.
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