Freight Railroads

Knight E/A, Inc., a WSP company, is leading the railroad engineering design services for the relocation of the UPRR’s Milwaukee Subdivision tracks through a two-mile segment of the EOWA Western Bypass Corridor.

Knight E/A, Inc., a WSP company, provided construction management services to Union Pacific Railroad for the Wilmington High Speed Rail and Kankakee River Bridge project.

WSP provided design services for the design-build of a new 283-acre railroad inspection yard, constructed in multiple phases.

WSP’s solutions exceeded sustainability targets on the Parkes to Narromine line of the Inland Rail Program, which will ultimately see freight times between Brisbane and Melbourne reduced to under 24 hours.

The 1,176-mile Northeast Corridor (NEC) rail line traverses the United States' busiest and most populated region, connecting Washington DC, Baltimore MD, Philadelphia PA, New York, and Boston MA.

WSP is providing ongoing commercial and advisory support to Vancouver Fraser Port Authority relating to container terminal facilities, with a detailed market study and long-term container forecasts.

The Karlsruhe-Basel line is the heart of one of Europe’s most important freight corridors, Rotterdam-Cologne-Basel-Milan-Genoa, and is one of the oldest and most frequently used railway lines in southwest Germany. The demands of modern rail traffic will be met with the continuous four-platform extension to the Rhine Valley line, as well as new railway sections in some areas. WSP provided various planning services with regards to general technical equipment planning.

Innovative design, new construction techniques and staged construction saved time, money and reduced the impact of construction of five bridges on heavily trafficked Auckland roads.