Bentley Rail Track

Survey/Data Acquisition

• Read/write standard data formats automatically for:
  • Raw survey data from all major survey equipment
  • 2D/3D CAD graphics
  • ASCII/text data formats
  • LandXML geometry (horizontal, vertical, and cant) and
    surface data
  • LiDAR data: ASCII and LAS
  • USGS Digital Elevation Model data
  • Aerial photographs
  • Raster files
  • Contour maps
  • Photogrammetric data
• Reduce survey data
• Support feature coding for custom survey feature connectivity, display,
  and annotation
• Adjust raw data using Compass, Crandall, Transit, Level, and Least Squares methods
• Edit survey fieldbook data graphically and dynamically
• Change instrument set-up with automatic updating
• Add, modify, or delete points and chains 
• Change codes and styles capabilities
• Support Versine
• Import geometry or surface data in virtually any ASCII format via Text
  Import Wizard
• Upload data collectors for construction stakeout
• Upload Plasser & Theurer’s EM-SAT geometry measurement system

Mapping and Infrastructure GIS

• Compile and efficiently edit data 
• Design, build, and publish accurate maps
• Enforce business and topological rules
• Provides CAD flexibility and GIS ease-of-use and efficiency to engineering workflows
• Take advantage of full compatibility with Bentley’s AEC applications 
• Analyze and present intelligent spatial analysis, thematic display, and buffer creation

Feature-based DTM and Feature Editing

• Create intelligent 3D models
• Model intelligent civil features for ditches, curbs, trees, culverts, etc.
• Pass survey intelligence to 3D DTM modeling
• Edit context-sensitive intelligent features
• Extend, trim, and intersect features
• Insert, move, and delete vertices
• Delete, partially delete, break, or join features
• Copy or transpose features
• Support boundaries, holes, breaklines, inferred breaklines, and
  random points
• Analyze features with intuitive terrain modeling tools
• Manage large LiDAR datasets
• Base presentation and labeling by feature definition
• Exclude non-DTM features from triangulation
• Copy surface or portion of surface

DTM Analysis

• Update plan, section, or profile
• Generate contours from data points accounting for breaks, random points, voids, edges, and other criteria
• Control maximum length of triangles
• Display cut and fill delineation
• View and edit feature properties
• Develop custom feature styles
• Control point density of  linear features to optimize surface presentation
• Color code display by triangles, slopes, elevation, and aspect
• View slope vectors
• Analyze line of sight 
• Visualize gridded DTMs, profiled models, and elevation models
• Thin surfaces
• Generate grade contours
• Interrogate surfaces
• Display isopach

Geometric Design

• Use interactive geometry tools for immediate design visualization
• Use methods and principles specific to rail design and civil engineering 
• Create horizontal by points-of-intersection (PI) method or by elements:
  • Lines
  • Circular arcs (arc and chord definition)
  • Multiple spiral transition definitions, including:
    • Clothoid
    • Cubic parabola
    • Bloss
    • Biquadratic parabola
    • Sinusoidal
    • Cosine
    • Viennese-Austria
• Associative and dynamic editing of elements, maintaining curve definition and tangency
• Create vertical by PI method or by elements:
  • Lines
  • Parabola
  • Circular arcs
    • Vertical clothoid transition spirals
• Edit, delete, or join geometric elements
• Check Integrity for location and removal of discontinuities and resolution of tangent and non-tangent curves
• Assign and edit stationing automatically
• Annotate alignments, stations, and COGO points
• Precision PI definition
• Define curve sets parametrically 
• Create multiple vertical alignments per horizontal alignment
• Review and report geometric elements
• Dynamic annotation
• Perform design checks dynamically or in batch processes
• Use curve and spiral calculators
• Display geometry as 3D elements

Cant

• Use equilibrium equations (Eq = 11.82 * V2/R)
• Compute equilibrium cant, applied cant, cant deficiency, rate of change of applied cant, rate of change of cant deficiency, and cant gradient
• Supports ASCII tables
• Compute transitions to match existing horizontal transitions 
• Compute virtual transitions (where horizontal transitions are not required, but cant is required)
• Incorporate design checks when editing
• Edit horizontal curves with integrated cant

Regression Analysis

• Generate horizontal and vertical alignments from existing data using least squares solutions
• Regress single or multiple elements 
• Regress horizontal and vertical elements
• Detect points automatically for inclusion based upon direction and
  distance tolerances
• Convert surveyed rails to centerline
• Review and edit regression points on demand
• Exclude or include points in regression by selection criteria or data
  analysis review
• Automate point interrogation by user-defined criteria
• Use curve diagrams for curve and transition resolution
• Use slew diagrams to verify data consistency
• Identify transition points via rail curvature diagram
• Include cant via rail curvature diagram for regression

Turnouts

• Create and edit turnouts interactively and dynamically for:
  • Single branch
  • Double branch
  • Single slip
  • Double slip
  • Diamond crossings
• Includes multiple bending methods:
  • Swiss bending practice
  • German bending practice
  • UK tangent and offset practice
• Includes industry-standard turnouts:
  • AREMA 
  • ADIF, FGC, and TRANVIA (Spain)
  • Denmark
  • German Rail
  • German Light Rail 
  • Indian Railways
  • OBB (Austria)
  • ProRail (Netherlands)
  • Russia
  • South Africa
  • UK 113A and NR60 
• Employ tools for user-defined standards
• Use Turnout Connection Editor to dynamically edit turnout positions/connections

Roadway Designer

• Merge horizontal and vertical geometry with 3D topography for application of design standards and typical sections
• Define typical sections with horizontal and vertical geometry paths
• Assign component control points to existing or designed features or geometry, controlling horizontal and/or vertical location 
• Assign automatic overrides by feature or station intervals
• View plan, profile, and cross section simultaneously
• Control view scaling dynamically
• Display right-of-way, existing ground, and other rail/road centerlines to enhance dynamic interaction
• Model using parametric templates dynamically and interactively
• Model dynamically in steps or batch process
• Manage one or multiple corridors for plans, visualization, cross sections, and reporting
• Control template sections, stationing, and intervals
• Transition between disparate templates via 3D interface
• Allows dynamic editing of cant/superelevation in super diagram
• Apply exceptions for bridges, voids, and special end conditions
• Assist problem resolutions through intelligent color coding of transitions, super runout, cross slope conditions, etc.
• Edit individual stations dynamically
• Reflect edits automatically in quantities and volumes 
• Shade materials for enhanced clarity
• Display 3D model-based graphics complete with 3D components

Storm Drainage and Sanitary Sewer Layout and Design

• 3D modeling
  • Create 3D drainage model relative to topography and alignments
  • Place multiple drainage structures along alignments by spacing and offsets
  • Support interconnected network of pipes, curved pipes, channels, culverts, manholes, pumps, catch basins, and inlets
  • Creates associative and dynamic model-based designs
  • Create storm, sanitary, or combined networks
  • Build drainage models directly from survey data
  • Delete or add any size pipe from library
  • Apply any material and coefficient of roughness
  • Identify 2D graphics as utilities and drape relative to terrain model
  • Display all network and utility objects in sections and profiles
  • Label all attributions in any view or include in user-defined reports
  • Draw 3D models of drainage structures to full 3D shapes for easy clash detection
• Design and analysis
  • Analyze models using industry-standard equations such as Mannings, Colebrook-White, Bernouli, and Continuity
  • Use analysis based upon HEC22, FHWA, HDS 5, 10, 13, Modified
  • Rational method, as well as regression equations
  • Base network design upon equations above and sizes selected from user-defined tables
  • Compute drainage flows from areas using Modified Rational Method or CS Unit Hydrograph Method
  • Compute Tc via FAA, Kirpich, Overland Flow or LADOT methods
  • Compute Tc from 3D model or specify
  • Use demand and demographic tables for sewer computations
  • Supports infiltration, population, and peaking factors as well as land usage
  • Define and easily edit user parameters
  • Compute or specify flows
  • Generate engineering reports from design and analysis for inclusion in project notebook
  • Define custom Intensity-Duration-Frequency tables
  • Generate drainage queries and reports
  • Color code based upon queries or set-up styles for special symbology by type and size
• Pond routing
  • Calculate pond volumes from surfaces or specified dimensions
  • Create input and output hydrographs
  • Design inlet and outlet control structures

Quantity Management

• Automate quantity takeoffs to streamline quantity estimating 
• Link design features and graphics to a Master Pay Item list
• Report quantities by entire project or delineated by sheets, stations, area,
  or phase
• Report on design features and graphic elements
• Deliver more than 60 formulas or easily customize your own, each with unlimited variables and arithmetic operations
• Generate linear, area, and volume quantities
• Integrate non-graphic (mobilization, etc.) quantities in takeoffs and reports
• Store quantities in a nonproprietary database accessed with Microsoft Office applications
• Execute reports in stand-alone environment when desired
• Integrate with Trns*port for pay item list and cost estimates
• Apply funding splits and payer rules to quantities
• Choose from more than 30 sample reports, including CSV, HTML, TXT,
  and PDF
• Modify sample reports or create custom reports through XML style sheets

Design Validation

• Use industry-standard design checks for:
  • Austrian Rail
  • CEN Standards
  • Danish Rail
  • Dutch Rail
  • German Rail
  • Transrapid
  • And more
• Review design in curvature diagrams and slew diagrams
• Annotate plan and profiles
• Generate XSL/XML reports for horizontal alignments, vertical alignments, and cant

Export to Field for Construction

• Plasser & Theurer tampers (ALC and WinALC systems)
• Matisa tampers (the PALAS system)
• Trimble
• Leica
• LandXML

Integration with Bentley Content Management and Publishing Solutions

• ProjectWise®, Bentley’s engineering project team collaboration system
• ProjectWise® InterPlot®, providing teams with publishing solutions for creating accurate and intelligent deliverables
• ProjectWise® Navigator, visual collaboration for immersive project review and analysis
• ProjectWise® Dynamic Plot, for error-free markup and review
  

Languages

• Chinese
• Czech
• English
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish

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