Glasgow Clyde Metro Design & Feasibility Study

As part of the course Transportation Design, Infrastructure, and Society, an introduction to sustainable transportation design at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, I worked on a team of civil and electrical engineers, urban planners, and geographers to create an all-encompassing implementation plan for Clyde Metro. Clyde Metro is a proposed rapid transit system for the city of Glasgow, a post-industrial city that finds itself at a turning point in terms of regeneration and redefining its identity. Through a series of lectures from industry experts, field visits to Glasgow, and comparisons to similar cities around the world, my team developed an implementation plan and design justification for building several routes for Clyde Metro. This plan included research into demographics and usage patterns in the proposed service area, cost estimated based upon other EU and UK transit projects, and technical implementation regarding vehicles and transit right-of-way. Further, this report also focused on ways to encourage other modes of active and sustainable travel into the metro system to ensure long-time use and sustainability.

An excerpt of the final report is available here – take note of sections 0, 7, and 8.