As one of the Southeast region’s fastest-growing cities, the City of Columbia in South Carolina has long identified the need to improve rail operations and alleviate vehicle congestion impacted by freight rail traffic along the city’s Assembly Street Railroad Corridor.
STV has provided a range of planning and design services for the City of Columbia and the South Carolina Department of Transportation for the Assembly Street Railroad Corridor Separation program for more than 15 years. These services include a feasibility study that analyzed viable design alternatives, conceptual engineering, alternatives analyses, public and stakeholder engagement, railroad coordination and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) initiatives to facilitate a preferred alternative for the project. Additionally, the firm is providing conceptual track and roadway design services, including structures and preliminary utility and right-of-way evaluations, and prepared grant documentation that allowed Columbia to secure a $204 million Federal Railroad Administration Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant.
