MAA GROUP Consulting Engineering

Connecting Bangkok with its new international airport

For the convenience of air passengers to and from Bangkok, the Thailand Government decided to provide an express railway service connecting the downtown Bangkok City Air Terminal in Makkasan district and the new Suvarnabhumi International Airport. The link will be approximately 28 km long with 8 stations and have a maximum design speed of 160kph. The rail track will be elevated for most of its route with short at-grade and underground sections at Suvarnabhumi Airport. The railway corridor will include commuter services due to the many residential areas along the railway alignment. Express journeys will take 15 minutes and commuter trips will take 27 minutes. SRT engaged PB (Asia), Perry Infra and MAA Thailand to provide independent safety and reliability certification engineer services.

Scope of work

• Safety and Reliability Engineering support to perform reliability analysis and assessments for the certification for the train systems and related processes in accordance with international codes and standards
• Review and assessment of reliability analysis assumptions and completeness
• Assessment of design and operational compliance with SRT requirements through participation in the various engineering processes