Operations and systems
Bringing new transport infrastructure into service can be a complex challenge. Success depends on the proper integration and operation of many different interdependent components across the project lifecycle.
Our approach succeeds by shaping and delivering the technical expertise needed at every stage in your system’s progress. This includes understanding the right requirements at the project’s outset, and managing this through to enabling its operational capability, the delivery of seamless user experiences, and efficient maintenance.
With a single holistic integrated framework we empower you to deliver complex systems and infrastructure, leveraging the best of systems engineering, systems integration, systems assurance and operational readiness.
What can we do for you?
We work with public and private infrastructure owners and operators to deliver their complex systems into service, so that they can achieve their intended outcomes for the communities they serve. We build confidence, assurance and clarity, often where there’s no precedent.
Years before the first passengers pay and get on board, and your first rolling stock leaves the depot, making informed and consistent decisions can influence better outcomes for you, your stakeholders, and your users.
Our systems engineering and integration approach can help position major projects to achieve successful outcomes over the course of its lifetime. For example, by enabling your physical assets and digital technologies to work well together from the outset, we can help projects to stay on time and budget.
By applying our holistic model and technical excellence, we enable you to define and understand the requirements for your systems, guide their design, and successfully deliver, integrate, test, assure and bring them into operation.
We can help you:
- Realise project requirements
Our experts work with you to define your project’s scope, objectives and needs, and to develop concepts for its successful operation. This helps to define your system engineering and integration requirements and our interdisciplinary excellence to inform and create an effective design. Our staged approach supports you to enter the construction process with greater confidence. - Establish assurance and achieve operational readiness
We enable you to successfully prepare your well-integrated systems for effective and efficient service. Our model builds progressive assurance, so you’ve got confidence at every point, even when it’s first-of-a-kind.
This includes establishing and delivering staged testing processes – from subsystems into systems testing and commissioning. We support you to create and undertake safe and comprehensive trials - addressing risk, building your resilience and shaping operations. - Shape successful operations
Alongside expert engineering and design for your infrastructure assets and technologies, we help you identify and integrate the high-performance processes – for your organisation’s people, digital technologies, maintenance and asset management.
Ultimately, we help you to steward well-designed systems to become well-operated and run services in the long-term.
Elizabeth Line, UK. Our integration team provided a central hub for planning and monitoring progress towards bringing the stations into use.
Holistic systems design, integration and operations
Our multidisciplinary expertise and experience enables us to support better systems engineering, integration and operations at every stage of your project:
Meet the team
Our experience
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Brisbane Metro, AustraliaFor one of the fastest growing cities in the Asia-Pacific, Mott MacDonald designed, integrated and brought into operation a transformative Bus Rapid Transit system. The first-of-its-kind high capacity, high frequency new network involved shaping and establishing a new system that included innovative new technologies and ways of working. Mott MacDonald supported this from concept and design, and into its assurance and operational service. This included supporting the client to successfully and safely test, validate and commission Brisbane Metro.
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Cross River Rail, AustraliaAs part of a long-term partnership with Cross River Rail in Queensland, Mott MacDonald is supporting the integration, testing, commissioning and handover phases for this major rail project. Cross River Rail involves the construction of a new 10.2 km rail line, including 5.9 km of twin tunnels beneath the Brisbane River and CBD, four new underground stations at Boggo Road, Woolloongabba, Albert Street, and Roma Street.
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Elizabeth Line, UKCreating a new line for London, the Elizabeth Line is one of the world’s most technologically advanced railways, employing more than 50 different systems, including first-of-a-kind technologies. We helped lead the station integration and worked on testing and commissioning of the 10 central London stations, from Paddington to Abbey Wood. Stations must operate in perfect synchronicity with routeways (track, mechanical, electrical and traction power), signalling and telecoms. Our integration team provided a central hub for planning and monitoring progress towards bringing the stations into use.
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Vancouver SkyTrain, CanadaOur team supported the delivery of the new Mark V model into service for Vancouver’s SkyLink, with new 47 new trains set to improve the passenger experience and potential for multimodal journeys. Mott MacDonald ensured the introduction of the new fleet was effectively and efficiently managed. This included developing its readiness roadmap – success criteria, acceptance pathways, simulation drills - undertake activity such as inspections, validations and feedback through the development and testing process, and supporting the client to navigate key issues like quality control.
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Melbourne Metro Tunnel, AustraliaMelbourne’s Metro Rail Tunnel project is set to significantly improve journeys in Melbourne, enabling more frequent and reliable services to passengers to destinations with significant existing demand. As part of the AJM Joint Venture with Jacobs and Aurecon, Mott MacDonald’s team has supported the successful design, delivery, integration and entry-into-service for a major project that includes two new tunnels from the west of Melbourne to its south-east, five new underground stations, and the introduction of new signalling solutions. This includes the use of the European Train Control System (ETCS), leveraging Mott MacDonald’s deep expertise in this area.
