Design

The way of doing the railway design is in many ways identical to how you use the road design. Where there are differences we have listed on each function.

NOTE: Before doing any changes to the design you should have set a Reference Alignment and run the Cross Section Wizard.

Modeling

Cross-sections

For information about how to use the Cross-section Viewer, see documentation for Road > Cross-section Viewer.

Railway Surfaces

For information about how to use the Railway Surfaces dialog, see documentation for Road > Road Surfaces.

Differences between Road and Railway modelling.

• • Naming convention on the surface groups and surfaces

Pavement

For information about how to use the Pavement dialog, see documentation for Road > Pavement.

Differences between Road and Railway modelling.

• • Naming convention on the pavement layers.

  • Railway modelling do not support Layer Properties.

Detailed Pavement

For information about how to use the Detailed Pavement dialog, see documentation for Road > Detailed Pavement.

Differences between Road and Railway modelling.

• • Naming convention on the pavement layers.

Landscaping

For information about how to use the Landscaping dialog, see documentation for Road > Landscaping.

Tools

These tools are for using the model in various ways.

Analysis

For information about how to use the functions under the Analysis drop-down, see documentation see Road > Analysis.

Differences between Road and Railway modelling:

• • Sight distance analysis does not exist for Railway modelling.

  • Junction Wizard does not exist for Railway modelling.

Objects

For information about how to use the functions under the Objects drop-down, see documentation for Road > Objects.

Side Area

For information about how to use the functions under the Side Area drop-down, see documentation for Road > Side Area.

Export/Import 

For information about how to use import and export functions, see documentation for Road > Export/Import.

Reports

For information about how to extract reports, see documentation for Road > Report to Excel.

Settings

For information about how to use the model settings, see documentation for Road > Settings.