Light Rail

Light Rail Transit (LRT), has evolved from the urban streetcar networks. Today many urban areas are finding that LRT can be efficiently designed to fit a downtown location without taking additional land or creating undesirable barriers. It is capable of operating on exclusive right-of-way, semi exclusive right of-way, and in mixed traffic. Parsons’ professionals have prepared contract plans for all facets of LRT projects including tunnels and elevated structures, stations and terminals, tracks and signals, power transmission, and storage and maintenance facilities. We have provided services internationally in Malaysia, Israel, the Philippines, and Canada. We are, at any given time, involved in numerous LRT systems in the U.S. and throughout the world, from MIS through construction. Recently Parsons contributed to early success in some of the first design/build LRT systems being developed in the US, in Minnesota and California.