
High-speed rail
We have been at the forefront of high-speed rail for more than 40 years, working with clients worldwide, to unlock the transformative potential railways offer. Our international team brings extensive experience helping clients to take projects from vision to reality, delivering reliable and high-quality assets and a positive legacy beyond the railway.
We support governments, asset owners and rail operators across every facet of a scheme’s development. Our approach is to maximise the economic, social and environmental benefits. This begins by defining a sound business case and route alignment with the credibility to gain enduring support.
With a scheme design up and running our team helps clients to solve complex design and program challenges, such as tunneling feats and systems integration. We recognise the need for cost-effective performance too, ensuring optimal service and asset performance once the line is operational. Ultimately we all want to see low emission, high capacity and resilient railways – and we help clients to achieve this at every stage of the journey.
How we can help
We offer support across every aspect of high-speed rail development:
Services
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Projects
Learn more about our work across every high-speed rail development
Issues
We explore some of the biggest questions facing the built and natural environments.
Rail experts
Meet our globally based rail leaders:

Peter Guest
Principal
Peter Guest is a Principal and the Americas Rail Business Leader based in Arup’s New York office.

James Musgrave
Director
James Musgrave leads the Rail business in Arup’s Asia Pacific (APAC) Region, which spans East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Phil Harrison
Director
With over 25 years of experience across rail design, engineering and strategy, Phil leads Arup’s Rail Business in the UK, India, Middle East and Africa.