Rail & Transit
Bloom offers comprehensive planning, engineering, and construction management for railroad and transit engineering. We strive to deliver innovative solutions that respect local preferences and fit within the context of the surrounding environment. Bloom has experienced transit engineers with skills covering the entire rail engineering sector, bus rapid transit sector, and future project operation.
Rail Systems:
- Feasibility & assessment studies
- Urban rail & light rail transit
- Planning & design
- Intercity passenger & commuter rail studies
- Freight rail planning & design
- Intermodal rail studies
- Contract administration
- Conceptual, preliminary & final design
- Construction plans & specifications
- Intermodal facility
- Automated hump yards
Operation & Interchanges:
- Capacity studies
- Highway rail grade crossing analysis
- Station dimensioning
- Passenger platform dimensioning
Bus Rapid Transit:
- Environmental documentation & corridor planning
- Maintenance facility design
- Station area design
Traction Power:
- TPSS – schematics, room layouts, plans and sections, OH & UG cable tray and conduit layout, panel schedules, and lighting
- Grounding protection, emergency trip scheme, and interlocking
- Terminal wire connections, cable, and conduit schedules
- UPS system cutover, load analysis, load balancing
- Power system analysis (short circuit, protective coordination, harmonics, power factor, voltage drop, and arc flash)
- Systemwide cabling, ducting, and pullbox layout
- Trackside disconnect switches and traction power cable routing
Management:
- Cost estimating
- Implementation coordination
- Program management
- Project & construction management
- Quality management
- Regulatory issues & permitting