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Feature Function Benefit
Profile definition •Use numerical input and interactive
graphical methods to create profiles
•Calculate vertical curve lengths to pass
through a known station and elevation
•Calculate best-fit profiles through points
surveyed on an existing centerline
•Automatically check for sight distance
criteria and overlap
•Use custom profile table with k-sag and
k-crest values
The profile definition command
offers added flexibility with tools
for interactive layout and design
consistency checks of design
profiles. It uses tables that you
define to quickly specify design
speeds and k-crest and k-sag
values.
Surface modeling
for grading plans
•Define 3D surfaces from user-defined
shapes
•Easily design building pads, retention
basins, dikes, retaining walls, ditches, gore
areas, bridge end-fills, interchanges, and
other 3D surface shapes
•Develop special grading for intersections
The 3D visualization tools in
CAiCE Visual Roads provide a
fast and interactive way to
transform existing and proposed
DTMs for site design,
commercial land development,
and complex or special situation
road design scenarios (bridge
end fills, building pads, inside
roadway corners, and so forth).
Cross-section
design
•Define proposed cross sections with a
customizable library of fragments
•Define any criteria and methodology for
milling, leveling, resurfacing, and widening
•Use design surfaces that automatically
adapt to different conditions such as low cut
and fill, high cut and fill, guardrail widening,
additional lanes, rock and special material
excavations, and changes in superelevation
•Hook design components to chains and
profiles for automatic widening, slope
changes, and ditch definition
•Use partial templates to apply reoccurring
portions to different types of roadways
•Use multiple alignments and profiles
•Develop designs interactively, with a batch
process, or a combination of both
The software’s flexibility helps
you quickly and easily define
proposed cross sections with
customizable fragment libraries.
You can also design multiple
alignments and roadways
simultaneously for increased
productivity.
Superelevation
definition
•Customizable superelevation and runoff
table files
•Support for multiple slope and special
shoulder superelevation
•Automatic resolution of overlapping
transitions on short tangents
•Support for manual definition of
superelevation, or manual overriding of
calculated superelevation
•Support for various runoff transition rules
•Allows tangent runoff distances to be fixed
or extrapolated
You can automatically compute
the superelevation transition
stations based on user-defined
superelevation and runoff tables
that adhere to regional, state,
or organizational standards. The
ability to control the pivot
location (centerline, inside edge
of pavement, and so forth)
provides greater flexibility.
