Railway Market

SYSTRA consulting wins three transit project contracts

SYSTRA Consulting, Inc., has been selected to take part in transit contracts by the Maine Department of Transportation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Sacramento Regional Transit District. Maine DOT named SYSTRA Consulting prime consultant to study the feasibility of a 36-mile transit corridor connecting Bangor with Maine's Mount Desert Island region, home to Acadia National Park. SYSTRA Consulting will be responsible for project management, planning, and engineering. As part of a joint venture with The Louis Berger Group, SYSTRA Consulting will also help evaluate the feasibility of a two-mile PATH extension from Newark (N.J.) Penn Station to the new Northeast Corridor/Newark International Airport Monorail Station. Additionally, SYSTRA Consulting will provide project management, systems integration, design, and construction support for the wayside signaling and highway/rail grade crossings of Sacramento RTD's Folsom Corridor extension. The project, which follows SYSTRA Consulting's completion of train control design work for RTD's South Corridor extension, will take approximately 15 months to complete.

Equipment

Quantum Engineering: Received 1,400 orders for end-of-train telemetry units from railroad customers nationwide.

Western Resources (a Kansas-based holding company that owns KPL and KGE utility operations): Has taken delivery of 270 AutoFlood II™ cars from Johnstown America Corp.

Facilities

NJ Transit: Awarded a $22.5 million contract to George Harms Construction to build 1.7 miles of new track between Paterson and Clifton, N.J., to provide increased service to the Secaucus Transfer Station, scheduled to open in 2002. When the work is completed, most of NJ Transit's main line will have two tracks.

San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission: Awarded a $38-million, six-year contract to PB Farradyne, Inc., a division of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., to operate TravInfo®, the Bay Area's real-time traffic and transit information source, and to provide the systems and services to collect, disseminate, and market timely, accurate travel information in the nine-county Bay Area, with an option for two additional two-year contract extensions. Transit information will be accessible via a website and a toll-free telephone number, as well as through personal communication devices and in-vehicle navigation systems. MTC's goal is to have 10 million annual users by 2004. Presently, the toll-free number-based service receives more than 60,000 calls per month.

Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana: Awarded ALSTOM a 12-year, $83 million contract for rehabilitation and maintenance of the 400-mile Northeast Line, which links Celaya with Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico. Rehabilitation is expected to be completed by 2002.

Vancouver Skytrain and Calgary Light Rapid Transit: Awarded H.J. Skelton (Canada) Ltd. of London, Ontario, contracts valued at more than $4 million for special trackwork projects. Skelton will provide Skytrain with moveable point frogs for main line special trackwork plus sliding rail expansion joints for bridge approaches and will work with Calgary on four crossovers and one double crossover.