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Company overview
Drawing on decades of experience in public transport infrastructure, multi-disciplinary consulting firm WSP helps its clients to plan, design, and manage mass transit systems. Its expert team delivers bespoke solutions that lead to sustainable outcomes and smarter, more cost-effective transportation for all.
With a global presence and 50 UK locations, WSP works flexibly and efficiently, delivering maximum value for its customers. And, as networks are modernised, it’s helping organisations to introduce and integrate new technologies.
Boasting 130 years of industry experience, WSP was involved in the creation of the first subway systems in America, Africa, Australia, and South Asia. Today, it brings together design, construction phase, and advisory services with programme management and land use planning, providing truly holistic solutions.
Transport sectors
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Services
Delivered flexibly, efficiently, and with minimum disruption to clients and communities, WSP’s services include:
- Electric vehicles: including policy, infrastructure design and policy, market scanning and lifecycle cost.
- Rail design: covering track, signal and train control, communication systems, overhead catenary systems, and 3rd rail traction power.
- Railway sustainability: from understanding and responding to trends to preparing sustainable development policies.
- Asset and vehicle management: from developing asset management plans to traffic and timetable modelling.
- Fare collection systems: helping organisations to understand and adopt the right systems for their use case.
- Rail electrification: from initial planning to construction and programme management.
- Control, command and signalling (CCS) solutions: from colour light signalling to automated moving block solutions.
- Systems assurance: from RAM analysis to reliability-centred maintenance.
- Rail operations and maintenance: including analysis of day-to-day conditions, resource planning, cost control and planning of budgets.
- Rail planning: covering environmental studies, sustainable land use, and travel demand forecasting.
- Transit oriented development: helping to create dynamic, sustainable communities.
Featured project
WSP provided multidisciplinary engineering design services, supporting and delivering stations and tunnels on this 56.2km line.