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Interactive design

HIGHWAY DESIGN

Quick, flexible design of highway alignments with ability to incorporate CAD sketch designs, with transition curve details, and automatic vertical design

Dynamic alignment editing

HIGHWAY DESIGN

Horizontal, vertical, carriageway or feature designs can be quickly and easily edited at any stage with dependent features updated automatically to reflect changes

Carriageways

HIGHWAY DESIGN

Carriageways, single/dual or combination, all generated in 3D and associated with the master alignment. Widths can be defined (but varying) or freeform

Visibility checks

HIGHWAY DESIGN

Forward visibility, horizontally and vertically, is tested based on defined parameters for stopping and full overtaking sight distances and junction splays

Roundabout design

HIGHWAY DESIGN

Advanced Design Features tools are standard within the highway module allowing vertical design of roundabouts by the Stockdale rolling crown method, unique to PDS

Transition curve design

HIGHWAY DESIGN

Transition curve design and super elevations to design speeds are applied automatically but may be overridden for differing entry/exit design speeds and suppression of transitions

Highway Design |
BIM Infrastructure Design

Highway Design is an extension to Alignment Design, aimed at major routes and includes automatic and user controlled transition curve design and super elevation application.

Feature Wheel

Visibility checks
- Junction splays to user defined parameters.
- Horizontal forward visibility checks.
- Vertical forward visibility checks.
- Export the design to VR for real time drive-through checks.
Carriageways
- Single and dual carriageways
- Varying width carriageways
- Freeform carriageways.
- Default and user defined crossfalls and carriageway construction.
- Automatic junctions.
- User-defined junction wizard.
- Freeform and parametric turning heads.
- Carriageway drainage analysis.
- User defined road features - laybys.
Roundabout design
- Design to Stockdales rolling crown method.
- Display multiple alignments in one section box.
- Project levels from one alignment to another.
- Display tie in points as requires.
Transition curve design
- Super elevation is calculated based on design speed.
- Leading and trailing transition control.
- Different design speeds for leading and trailing.
- Default and individual curve control.
- Control super elevation application.
Interactive vertical & horizontal design
- Convert a CAD sketch directly into a validated design.
- Fixed free and floating elements.
- Full control over the design at all stages.
- String based design for maximum flexibility.
- Design changes at any stage of the design process.
Dynamic alignment editing
- User defined design parameters.
- Optimised design.
- Optimised earthworks.
- Fast first pass design.
- Design the surface or formation.

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