Dallas Area Rapid Transit Light Rail Starter System and Build-Out

 

Client: Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)

Project location: Dallas, Texas

Project cost: $1.96 billion

 

Currently, DMJM Harris is working with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system, a successful partnership for more than a decade. As part of that partnership, we were responsible for implementing several key aspects of the agency’s 20-mile, $860 million LRT starter system, which included tunnel, at-grade, grade crossing, aerial, median, and transit mall alignments.

 

DMJM Harris managed all project implementation processes, including operations and maintenance planning, design integration, industrial engineering, start-up, integrated testing, training, system safety, and quality assurance. We were responsible for definition of facilities, conceptual design, review of all design packages, operations planning, and quality assurance and quality audits.

 

Following DMJM Harris’s initial success with the starter system, the firm, as the managing partner of a joint venture, was selected to perform all project controls and systems integration functions for DART’s $1.1 billion build-out extensions to Plano and Garland. This expansion added 23 miles of double track, 55 new light rail vehicles, 14 new stations, a major shop and yard expansion, and a new communications and control system.