{"id":62968,"date":"2026-05-16T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62968"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:54:51","slug":"lrssb-sign-agreement-with-arup-to-share-technical-guidance-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62968","title":{"rendered":"LRSSB sign agreement with ARUP to share technical guidance notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Light rail safety professionals in the UK will soon have access to more technical guidance notes thanks to a new partnership between LRSSB and the Australian arm of global infrastructure design consultancy ARUP.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This new collaboration will see 12 documents covering a broad spectrum of critical operational and safety-related topics being produced and shared with LRSSB members in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The areas to be covered include operational modelling, incident management, and system performance.<\/p>\n<p>Craig O\u2019Brien, Head of Engineering Safety and Innovation at LRSSB, said: \u201cThis latest collaboration reflects our strategic objective to build a comprehensive and authoritative library of standards and guidance for UK light rail systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo achieve this, we are drawing on international best practice and technical expertise, as well as the experience and knowledge of light rail safety professionals in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy working with Arup\u2019s specialist team in Australia, we\u2019re now able to leverage global experience and lessons learned from comparable networks operating in different regulatory and operational environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest partnership demonstrates the LRSSB\u2019s role as a globally connected organisation that can draw on international expertise to support safer, more reliable and more resilient networks for passengers, operators and authorities alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The guidance notes will be thoroughly reviewed by the LRSSB before they are released on the LRSSB Safety Hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light rail safety professionals in the UK will soon have access to more technical guidance notes thanks to a new partnership between LRSSB and the Australian arm of global infrastructure design consultancy ARUP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62969,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62968\/revisions\/62969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}