Rail and Transit
Rail and Transit Infrastructure Software Solutions
FEATURED SOLUTIONS
Improve design efficiency for a more complete representation of the design in context.
Optimize rail and transit project planning with 4D digital workflows, promoting collaboration and efficiency.
Modernize bridge management using digital twins for faster, secure data creation, real-time insights, and streamlined collaboration.
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Address critical rail infrastructure pressures
Today’s rail systems are under pressure. Aging assets, rising costs, and shifting demand are a constant challenge, but they’re also an opportunity. Bentley helps you make the most of your existing systems and plan for the future by using connected data and digital workflows to unlock greater confidence, speed, and value.
Accelerate Project Delivery
Stay on track during construction
Stay ahead of maintenance
Rail and Transit Design
Model civil structures in a connected environment that integrates geotechnical, structural, and civil data for safe, efficient, standards‑compliant designs.
Manage, extract, and share 3D mapping data
Manage, analyze, and share vast amounts of point cloud, imagery, textured mesh, GIS, and 3D mapping data to improve collaboration and get the best performance from reality modeling and digital twins.
Streamline multidiscipline design
Boost rail productivity with integrated tools that combine subsurface and infrastructure data. Streamline design of tracks, bridges, tunnels, and stations with discipline-specific software that enhances accuracy, collaboration, and standards compliance across new builds, maintenance, and upgrades.
Integrate project delivery workflows
Clearly communicate design intent and improve constructability by using digital workflows to coordinate early and often with construction teams and other stakeholders. This integrated approach allows you to detect and resolve potential conflicts before breaking ground, reducing costly rework and delays during construction.
Design solutions and recommended software
Comprehensive capabilities for rail and transit projects, from concept to documentation.
Survey and reality modeling
Quickly generate detailed 3D reality meshes using simple photographs or point clouds for use in your projects. Optimize and manage imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data from a variety of sources.
- Reality capture and modeling software: iTwin Capture
- Reality data management and 3D visualization software: Orbit 3DM
- Scalable 3D visualization in geospatial context: Cesium
Rail modeling, design, and analysis
Comprehensive and fully functional detailed design applications, above and below ground, for surveying, drainage, subsurface utilities, geotechnical, and the design of rail networks, bridges, and tunnels. Create accurate, georeferenced 3D designs with real-world context.
- Conceptual rail design software: OpenRail ConceptStation
- Rail modeling, design, and analysis software: OpenRail Designer
- Rail electrification modeling, design, and analysis software: OpenRail Overhead Line Designer
- Bridge modeling, design, and analysis software: OpenBridge Designer
- Tunnel modeling and design software: OpenTunnel Designer
- 3D design and drafting software: MicroStation
- Cloud-based geotechnical data management: OpenGround
Rail project delivery
Integrated 2D/3D/4D digital workflows for connecting people and data across design, construction, and maintenance project phases.
- Cloud-based solution that connects people and data across the infrastructure lifecycle: Bentley Infrastructure Cloud
- Project collaboration and information management: ProjectWise
- Construction planning and project management: SYNCHRO
- Open platform for infrastructure digital twins: iTwin
Rail and Transit Construction
Simulate construction sequences, coordinate contractors, and track progress in real time to deliver infrastructure safely, on schedule, and within budget.
Optimize preconstruction planning
Validate design constructability and visualize the build process by planning, scheduling, and modeling projects virtually before work begins. This increases on-site safety, reduces environmental impacts, and ensures optimal resource use.
Improve construction Execution
Enable your teams to make faster, better-informed decisions—whether they’re in the office or out in the field—by tracking project progress and performance in real-time and aligning everyone around a single up-to-date plan. With this greater visibility you’ll boost productivity, increase efficiency, and keep projects on track.
Collaborate with tools built for heavy civil
Access data faster using 2D or 3D track/civil model and project-specific coordinates. Improve quantity take-off accuracy and employ model-based scheduling with constructable components.
Construction Solutions and Recommended Software
Bentley’s digital construction delivery software improves the planning and execution of rail and transit projects.
4D planning and collaboration
4D construction software for planning, scheduling, and managing construction projects.
Progress and performance tracking
Construction performance solution for real-time insights into roadway project progress and costs.
Field execution mobile app
Mobile field application for real-time data capture and access – from field to office.
Rail and Transit Operations and Maintenance
Prove asset and network performance to deliver safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective service. Work smarter, meet regulatory compliance, and optimize rail maintenance strategies that ensure improved reliability, resilience, and performance.
Make bridge inspections faster, easier, and safer
Quickly capture, analyze, and manage data in the field or from the office, helping you improve the decisions made while meeting regulatory reporting requirements and ensuring safe, reliable infrastructure assets.
Maintain Compliance
Ensure your rail and transit network is maintained in a state of good repair, increasing your return on investment by completing the right work in the right place at the right time.
Evaluate Performance, Reliability, and Accessibility
Know the impact of change before implementation through simulations across a wide range of scenarios exploring how pedestrians and crowds interact with stations and related infrastructure.
Rail and transit operations and maintenance recommended software
Understand real-world conditions and usage of your rail networks to make smarter maintenance decisions faster.
Asset lifecycle management
Capture, manage, and leverage asset data from field to operations. Access real-time updates, track inspections, and deliver trusted information across all project phases and teams.
- Linear asset analytics software: AssetWise Linear Analytics
- Requirements management software: ComplyPro
- Asset lifecycle information management software: AssetWise ALIM
Accelerate Inspections and Condition Assessments
Leverage drone imagery, sensor data, and AI analytics to quickly assess asset conditions across large bridge and tunnel networks, reducing time in the field.
- Infrastructure monitoring software: iTwin IoT
- Reality capture and modeling software: iTwin Capture
- Field data collection and inspection management software: AssetWise Inspections
Mobility planning and simulation
Model and forecast how people move across urban, regional, and national rail networks. Simulate multimodal transport systems—including rail, pedestrian, and transit—to evaluate infrastructure, policy, and service changes before implementation. Use advanced analytics to improve accessibility, efficiency, and safety.
- Multimodal mobility simulation software: Bentley OpenPaths
- Pedestrian simulation software: LEGION
success stories
Bentley Rail and Transit Case Studies
Transport for London
Transport for London Delivers the Elizabeth Line
Bentley OpenPaths EMME helped improve commuter experience, bringing an additional 1.5 million people within 45 minutes of Central London.
Software used: Bentley OpenPaths, LEGION
Amey
Core Valley Lines (CVL) transformation
Using ProjectWise, Amey connected 1,500 users across more than 40 organizations. Over the last four years, Amey has produced and shared over 100,000 documents.
Software used: ComplyPro, iTwin Capture, MicroStation, OpenGround, OpenRail, PLAXIS, ProjectWise, SYNCHRO
INCEO
Rail Baltica
Digital design helped minimize environmental impact, potentially saving EUR 7.1 billion in climate change costs.
Software used: iTwin Capture, Leapfrog Works, MicroStation, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenGround, OpenRail, OpenRoads, PLAXIS, ProjectWise, SYNCHRO
SPL Powerlines
Midland Main Line electrification
By adapting ProjectWise with their customized data source, the organization improved project data quality by 50% in just four weeks, with first-time submission success rates rising from 41% to 67%.
Software used: AssetWise, iTwin Capture, MicroStation, OpenRail, ProjectWise
