Road Design tutorial

Introduction

Overview

Requirements

Workflow

Road design concepts

Inflection point

Simple curve

Spiral or transition curve

Superelevation

Vertical curve

Setting up for this tutorial

Task: Set the work directory

Task: Display the menubar and toolbars

Designing roads using string editing tools

Task: Design a road using CURVE END

Task: Design a road using CURVE TANGENT

Task: Design a road at a constant gradient along contours

Task: Create a variable width road outline

Using the road design module

Task: View the data

Task: Create horizontal design

Task: Drape centreline over DTM

Task: Create longitudinal profile

Task: Create vertical inflection points

Task: Create vertical curves

Task: Apply longitudinal profile

Task: Create road outline

Calculating road design volumes

Task: Calculate road cut

Task: Calculate road cut volume

Task: Calculate road fill

Task: Calculate road fill volume