Planning

Lea+Elliott offers planning services for a broad range of transportation technologies and we have experience in all modes of transit. We have conducted over 300 planning/feasibility studies for various kinds of automated and non-automated transportation systems. Lea+Elliott's planners, many certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners, regularly perform alternatives analyses to determine environmental, cost, operational, and mobility benefits of transportation options. The results of these analyses are used to inform local officials and community members of the benefits, costs, and impacts of planned transit systems.

Planning services include:

• Feasibility Studies
• Alternatives Analysis/Draft Environmental Impact Statement
• Technology Assessments
• Ridership Demand
• Operations Analysis
• Facility Planning
• Capital and O&M Cost Estimates
• Simulation/Modeling
• Master Planning
• Procurement Strategies

Engineering

Lea+Elliott has a multi-disciplinary staff that is qualified to address all the technical and system-related issues that can arise during transit system procurement and implementation. Many of our staff worked for equipment and system suppliers and can provide you with an in-depth understanding of the complex nature of these systems and how different equipment responds in different design scenarios. Other members of our staff have worked for public transit agencies and system owners and understand projects from the owner’s point-of-view. We boast one of the strongest teams of train control and vehicle systems engineers available anywhere in the world, many of whom are registered professional engineers.

Engineering services include:

• Safety Analysis and Certification
• Vehicle Design
• Control/Communications Systems
• Power Distribution
• Trackwork
• Value Engineering
• Conceptual Design
• Incident Investigation
• Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) Analysis
• System Integration

Facilities

Lea+Elliott provides complete design development services. We combine human knowledge with the latest computerized modeling software to create one-of-a-kind solutions for every unique client and every unique project. Using our proprietary and commercially available software in coordination with the most sophisticated computer modeling packages, we offer design solutions unmatched by any other firm.

Design services include:

• Alignment and Alternatives Analysis
• Conceptual Design
• Operational Simulations
• Fleet, Capacity and Services Analysis
• Facility Requirements, Locations and Concepts
• Preliminary Engineering
• Final Design

Procurement and Contract Management

Lea+Elliott is well known and respected internationally for our success in project structuring and procurement of transit systems and rolling stock. In the 1970's, we pioneered and perfected the design?build?operate?maintain (DBOM) procurement process and developed the approach for performance-based specifications. Both have been successfully used on dozens of our projects and also have been adopted by the industry as a standard. Our procurement documents were approved for use by the FTA for the Honolulu Rapid Transit project in the early 1990's and have since become industry standards, applied to AGT and rail transit projects worldwide. In keeping with our pioneering spirit, Lea+Elliott is actively leading the industry with project structuring innovations that include creative finance/funding opportunities that are coupled with project delivery strategies. These are carefully designed so they do not compromise the owner’s defined goals and objectives.

These include public-private-partnerships and strategic concessionaire options.

Procurement services include:

• Procurement Strategies
• Development of Proposal Solicitation and Tender Solicitation Documents to Foster Competitive Procurements
• Performance-Based Technical Specifications
• General, Special and O&M Provisions to Manage the Contract and Tailored to the Client’s Strategy for Oversight
• Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, and DBOM Contract Documents
• Development of Public Private Partnership and Concession Agreements
• Supplier Proposal Evaluation and Selection

System Refurbishment and Vehicle Overhaul

Lea+Elliott pioneered the master planning, procurement and development of driverless transit systems in the early 1970s. In recent years, we have experienced a steady increase in requests to manage the refurbishment and overhaul of these and other systems, as critical components wear out or become obsolete. Lea+Elliott has been at the forefront of this modernization replacement effort.

Refurbishment/rehabilitation and vehicle overhaul services include:

• Technical Specifications
• Refurbish/Replace Analysis
• Procurement Strategies and Services
• Design Reviews
• Construction Management
• Acceptance Testing Services

Program Management and Oversight

Since 1973, Lea+Elliott has managed the design, construction, testing and commissioning of dozens of transit systems. Members of our staff are often assigned full-time to project delivery offices where they work in concert with the owner’s program management team to see the project through to successful completion. Through this work, we employ various types and forms of project controls to ensure that each project stays on-schedule and on-budget. A natural outflow of this work is program management oversight, where our professional staff provides oversight services at the highest level to keep the owner apprised of the project status and to identify and quickly mitigate any threats to on-time and on budget completion.

Program management and oversight services include:

• Design Review
• Manufacturing Monitoring
• Quality Assurance
• Installation Oversight
• Test Plans, Procedures and Witnessing
• Operations/Maintenance Oversight
• Performance Improvement

Infrastructure

Our architects and engineers specialize in defining and providing all of the architectural data and systems information required for locating, sizing, and designing facilities for transit systems. Components include: stations; central control; wayside support areas; electric power feeds from the grid; guideway and walkway structures; and maintenance/storage facilities.

Facilities services include:

• Facilities Design Criteria - Structural, Civil, Electrical, Life Safety, etc.
• Constructability Analyses/Reviews
• Transit/Facilities Interfaces
• People Mobility Services Including Escalator, Elevator, and Moving Walkways and Circulation
• Graphics and Signage Requirements