The first new rail line built in New York City in more than 40 years, AirTrain JFK connects the Long Island Rail Road and New York City subway system with John F. Kennedy International Airport, one of the busiest international airports in the world.
As the lead designer for the AirRail Transit Consortium, STV provided complete architectural and engineering design and environmental services, as well as construction support services as part of a design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM) contract.
STV designed the system’s innovative elevated track guideway, a six-mile precast box girder structure supported by cast-in-place columns. More than 5,4000 precast segments were used to complete the superstructure, making it the longest precast segmental bridge in the United States at the time of AirTrain JFK’s debut. Additionally, the program included the design of 10 award-winning climate-controlled stations and a sophisticated operations, maintenance and storage facility.
5,400
precast segments
10
climate-controlled stations
1st
new NYC rail line in 40 years
