Help Dana Design a Road from Point A to Point B

You know you’ve always wanted to tell me what to do! Here is your chance.

This short video introduces a design scenario that I will work through over the next few weeks. I need to get a road from Point A to Point B!

The first exercise is to work through some early designs to make a decision- do I design a road that goes over the hills or around the hills?

Interactive Adventures in Civil Engineering with Dana, PE: Episode 1

Post your comments here or on youtube and I will get Episode 2 posted on Friday.

You might want to check out information about Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler and Project Silverstar to help you decide what my next step should be.

Conceptual Design for Transportation with Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler (youtube)

Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler vBook Tutorials

Project Silverstar (Profile Optimization) on Autodesk Labs

Project Silverstar Tutorial 1 (youtube)

Project Silverstar Tutorial 2 (youtube)

Comments

[Nathan B]

Through the hill! (You know you want to...)

[Justin Ralston]

Sure I will bite. Load the project constraints into Trimble Quantm

http://www.trimble.com/alignment/road-alignment.aspx?dtID=overview

[Kylenishioka]

Since my boss likes to see options, do both. :)

But in all seriousness, we'd have to document the reasons why one route was selected over another, and cost is only one issue. Realistically you should run both conceptual designs and keep a record of the design issues with each option.