Rail · Transit · Programs
Sixteen years across rail, transit, and bus infrastructure, brought to owners as focused, accountable program and construction management.
Owner’s-representative oversight of track, ties, ballast, switch machines, and systems work under live-service conditions — including outage and possession planning that protects continuity of operations.
Operations planning, bus facility upgrades, and charging-infrastructure projects that prepare agencies for the next generation of fleets.
Program and project management for transit owners — planning, stakeholder coordination, safety & security, maintaining operations through construction, and project controls across concurrent task orders.
Constructability review, utility-conflict investigation, field-verified redesign, and coordination with utility companies on complex relocations — backed by multidiscipline construction inspection.
Transit & rail, bus & fleet facilities, and program management — the disciplines that converge on every major infrastructure program.
Passenger and freight rail, electrification, station upgrades, and systems integration delivered within active corridors.
Bus rapid transit, operations planning, facility upgrades, and charging infrastructure that prepares agencies for future fleets.
Owner’s-representative oversight of safety & security and maintaining operations through construction — keeping complex programs on track from start to finish.
Senior attention on every program, start to finish.
Owner’s-representative discipline, brought directly to transit agencies, contractors, and infrastructure owners — careful outage planning, thorough constructability review, and an uncompromising commitment to safety and regulatory compliance.
Constructability and field execution directed as owner’s representative — coordinating weekend outages and possession limits to minimize impacts to operations.
Programs delivered across sixteen-plus years in the field — from signal maintainer to senior project director.
Program management for transit clients — overseeing the delivery of major transit initiatives and coordinating resources across concurrent task orders.
Metrolink & BNSF — Home Depot Rail Spur: Served as owner’s representative for construction and final acceptance of signal system modifications for a new rail spur connecting Metrolink to a Home Depot facility.
Maryland Transit Administration — Baltimore Metro CBTC: Project manager coordinating with operations on a weekend shutdown to stake, survey, and LiDAR-map property and tunnels in support of concurrent CBTC signal system upgrades.
BART — Tunnel Survey & Mapping: Project manager for LiDAR mapping and survey of all tunnels to support concurrent signal system upgrade work.
VTA — Silicon Valley Phase II: LiDAR mapping of future station sites in support of the Silicon Valley Phase II extension.
Oversaw constructability and field execution for replacement of track, ties, ballast, and switch machines under live-service conditions, coordinating weekend outages and possession limits to minimize impacts to operations.
Led multidiscipline construction inspection across civil, utilities, structures, and signal systems, verifying contractor compliance with project specifications, FRA regulations, CPUC General Orders, and industry operating standards.
Coordinated utility relocations on a former rail property — planning the removal of abandoned assets, re-routing existing railroad signal infrastructure, and facilitating utility companies’ access to relocate their own assets. Proposed the approach to the client and managed each step to keep the overall project on schedule.
Installed, tested, and maintained CTC, interlocking, grade-crossing, and Positive Train Control systems in full compliance with FRA regulations and industry operating standards.
Martin & Company is the consulting practice of Kyle J. Martin — sixteen-plus years across the rail and transit industry, from signal maintainer and electronic technician to construction manager and senior project director.
Kyle specializes in delivering complex infrastructure within live-service environments: electrification, station upgrades, signal systems, bus rapid transit, and multimodal programs. His work is defined by disciplined outage planning, rigorous constructability review, clear stakeholder coordination, and an uncompromising commitment to safety and regulatory compliance.
The firm was founded to bring that same owner’s-representative rigor directly to transit agencies, contractors, and infrastructure owners — senior attention on every program, start to finish.
Now based in South Florida and active within FDOT District 4, Kyle brings program experience spanning New England, California, Maryland, and South Florida to every engagement — a national perspective applied to local delivery.
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