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Bentley Rail Track / Power Rail Track

Rail Infrastructure Design and Optimization

Overview
Bentley Rail Track can be configured to support a wide range of international standards, providing engineers and
designers with the flexibility and control necessary to deal with real-life design scenarios on global rail
infrastructure projects. The software adapts readily to virtually any rail design and maintenance workflow and is
suitable for light rail, metros (transit), heavy rail, high-speed rail, and MAG-LEV projects.
Addressing horizontal and vertical track geometry as well as yard, depot, station layouts, earthworks, and
ballast users can generate realistic 3D models for analysis and project visualization, create reports for cost
estimates and setting-out, and produce fully annotated project drawings and deliverables for client approval and
construction.

Flexible, Versatile, and Configurable


With Bentley Rail Tracks extensive toolset, users can create horizontal and vertical geometry complete with all
rail hardware; perform horizontal and vertical regression analysis, cant, and superelevation design; and analyze
geometry as concurrent, integrated activities. An intuitive graphical user interface provides easy access to an
impressive set of interactive geometry tools for on-screen placement, modification, and extension of alignments.
The software delivers Civil AccuDraw, a civil-specific version of MicroStation AccuDraw, a precision drafting
tool that anticipates the users intent, reducing the number of mouse clicks and other actions required to achieve
drafting tasks. Civil AccuDraw streamlines the drafting process by supporting civil-specific drafting conventions,
with options for stations and offsets, bearings and distances, azimuths, and more.
Bentley Rail Track offers unparalleled capabilities to create, maintain, and analyze geospatial information as part
of the rail infrastructure asset lifecycle. The software facilitates integration of geospatial data within engineering
workflows, allowing users to enforce industry and topological standards as well as define and observe the
behavior of geographic objects. Bentley Rail Track provides engineering accuracy, CAD flexibility, and easy-touse GIS tools in one, fully compatible environment.
In Bentley Rail Track, turnouts including fundamental types based upon international standards are stored
in a user-definable library and placed dynamically. Toolbars can be customized, grouping commonly used tools
for repetitive tasks or specific workflows, to more rapidly evaluate design alternatives. Advanced functionality,
such as curvature diagrams, slew diagrams, interactive track editing, automated cant and superelevation
analysis, and tight integration with Bentley ProjectWise Bentleys project collaboration system for
connecting people and information across project teams completes this best-of-class application.

Field Data and Analysis


An all-in-one rail solution, Bentley Rail Track offers a full complement of functionality that enables users to work
seamlessly with survey, GPS, LiDAR, and other forms of field data. The Text Import Wizard streamlines import of
track geometry data for existing alignments, regardless of whether rail survey data is for rails or the track
centerline. Built-in tools automatically sort and convert data to horizontal, vertical, and cant alignments for
regression analysis and use downstream in the design process. When the design is complete, design data can
be uploaded to data collectors for stakeout or machine guidance devices for site preparation.

Adaptable Alignment Design


Bentley Rail Track provides a complete set of coordinate geometry (COGO) and advanced alignment capabilities
true geometric tools that give users unlimited options to dynamically edit and manipulate geometry
interactively via graphics or through precision key-ins. Users can place elements with varying degrees of freedom
from free to floating to fixed and define vertical parabolas or circular vertical curves with vertical transitions
to achieve successful results. To accommodate the various horizontal transitions required on rail projects, the
software delivers comprehensive mathematical and associated cant transition algorithms. A check integrity
function locates discontinuities and highlights potential issues, such as nontangential curves, for resolution or
correction.

Integrated Cant Design


The integration of cant and superelevation with the horizontal design process provides users with immediate
visual confirmation of compliance to design standards. The software possesses the innate ability to compute
equilibrium cant, applied cant, cant deficiency, rate of change of applied cant, rate of change of cant deficiency,
and cant gradient. The computed transition lengths and applied cant can then be adjusted to optimize the
alignment to all cant criteria, including the deployment of virtual transitions where required.

Library of Turnouts/Switches and Crossings


Bentley Rail Track provides comprehensive functionality for placement of turnouts, switches, and crossings as
parametric components. Users can quickly place turnouts using the standards libraries provided. Included are
standards for Austria, Germany (heavy and light rail), Holland, India, Italy, Russia, South
Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom (113As and NR60s), United States, and Canada (AREMA).
Users can create complex geometries based upon bending and flexing rules. Alternatively, users can create their
own turnout designs and save them to libraries for future use. The software handles turnouts, single and double
slips, and diamond crossings. The Connection Editor is used for more advanced geometric connections such as
crossovers and sidings. Designs can be edited at any stage in the process, changing the turnout type or position
dynamically. At the same time, the software maintains defined design rules and relationships automatically
healing turnouts and thereby increasing productivity while saving time, lowering the margin for error, and
promoting design ingenuity.

Regression Analysis
Bentley Rail Tracks single- and multiple-element regression analysis employ a rigorous least squares method to
calculate best-fit alignments. Regression tools provide users with a quick and easy way to match existing track
geometry more precisely. Regression analysis is an essential step in any track maintenance or upgrade project,
and Bentley Rail Track helps optimize the new design alignments by limiting slews and lifts. Bentley Rail Track
also includes powerful, but easy-to-use, curvature diagrams to help users identify curves, tangents, and spirals
ensuring the regression tools provide the results required for track realignment. Regression points can be derived
from the centerline or rail survey (including cant data), and can be weighted by users for fixity during analysis to
maintain critical points or ensure minimum clearance is achieved. Analysis results are quickly viewed and points
can be added or deleted from the regression analysis, providing users complete control throughout the
engineering process.

Support for Light Rail


Bentley Rail Track accommodates the requirements of light rail design, fabrication, and construction. The
software enables users to create detailed light rail elements rails, joints, switch points, crossing points, and
distance keepers and produce all drawings, reports, and specifications needed for fabrication of jointed rail,
pre-bent rail, and multiple rail types.

Feature-Based Surface Modeling


The software enables users to create intelligent, 3D topographic models containing track information, terrain
data, railbed, and related site features. The model may also contain other corridor features roadways, utilities,
drainage, etc. Intelligent features are visually distinguished by structure, style, and graphical symbology. Surface
models are formed using proven and tested triangulation methods and may represent existing topography,
design, or a combination thereof. Intelligent modeling allows users to incorporate features such as rails, ballast
edges, drainage, and other topology into the model. Features may be non-uniformly occurring points or
breaklines that represent connected linear segments ridges, edges of ballast and roadways for example.
Interior voids (holes) may represent building footprints, lakes, or areas of null information. Models may be
bounded by an exterior boundary feature formulating the exact edge of modeled or collected data.

Powerful 3D Modeling
Bentley Rail Track offers in-context, smart design of 3D rail corridors with Roadway Designer. Roadway Designer
streamlines the complex development of virtually every aspect of a corridor in a single, parametric presentation.
Users can travel along a corridor viewing and dynamically designing closed shapes that represent manmade
materials such as ballast, sub-ballast, sleepers, and related structures in concert. The software
automatically produces dynamic volumes to aid in balancing cut-and-fill.
Roadway Designer displays four-port views of the design in plan, profile, cross section, and cant or
superelevation. As work progresses, users experience immediate visual feedback in all views. Rail corridors are
easily modified by direct manipulation of parametric graphical components or by precision input in contextsensitive dialog boxes. The unique features of Roadway Designer allow users to target known existing features,
enabling models to conform to on-ground demands. As designs develop, color-coding displays potential problem
areas. Roadway Designer enables users to test design decisions before they are applied.
Roadway Designer offers state-of-the-art design automation. From horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, and
surface information, the software generates 3D models of the full track corridor using user-defined typical
sections including earthworks or end conditions. The software automatically ensures conformance to standards
as it speeds the corridor development process. When widening sub-ballast and sub-grade, Roadway Designer
automatically creates transitions according to user design criteria. Users can interactively edit cant and
superelevation on the fly.

Users easily modify and create intelligent design components no programming required and apply design
constraints for sleek control of the 3D parametric modeling process. Components can be open- or closed-shape
and include multiple construction layers, barriers, slopes, and ditches. Roadway Designer automatically creates
surfaces for generating cross sections, performing volume calculations, and aiding visualization and rendering.
Users can also merge components to create a single surface, or create a surface of the entire rail corridor.

Visual Design Verification


Design verification has never been easier. Bentley Rail Track allows users to virtually drive through the 3D model
and visually inspect for any design deficiencies or physical conflicts. In 3D QA, engineers can fully view track
features from all angles to identify gaps or misalignments, look for utility conflicts, and check clearances. They
can also visually evaluate sight distances, signaling, and other track-side infrastructure, as well as try out multiple
aesthetic treatments to reach desired results. Using Bentley Rail Track rendering features such as color fill,
shading, lighting, and backgrounds improves the design at any phase and adds a level of assurance in project
constructability.

Design Validation, Annotation, and Reporting


Bentley Rail Track includes built-in design checks to highlight areas of non-conformance to the selected design
standard. Functionality ranging from simple checks against parameters including design speed, applied cant,
and cant deficiency in the Cant Alignment Editor to more comprehensive checks against specific country
standards enables users to identify and resolve problems early in the design process.
Users can also create a dynamic Swept Envelope Analysis using track geometry and a library of 3D vehicle
objects. Used extensively in light rail and metro projects, this tool ensures clearance to surrounding infrastructure
and between vehicles on adjacent tracks.
In addition, designs can be visually validated using curvature, lift, and slew diagrams, as well as numerically
using plan and profile annotation. Bentley Rail Track uses XML/XSL technology to report all geometry (horizontal,
vertical, and cant) and modeling results delivering greater format flexibility when creating reports.

Storm and Sanitary Network Design


Bentley Rail Track provides a comprehensive toolset for surface and wastewater collection systems, allowing
users to interactively create a 3D associative model relative to the existing ground, design models, and track
geometry. Users can manipulate networks in plan or profile views, displaying the Bentley Rail Track drainage
model, as well as other utilities modeled in the software. This allows users to plan for clash avoidance and
identify potential problem areas before they occur. Users can model, analyze, and design complete storm water
and sanitary sewer networks, replete with inlets culverts, channels, catch basins, manholes, pumps, and pipes.
A robust set of computation tools account for the full array of surface runoff conditions and perform design checks
to ensure conformance with minimum and maximum requirements using industry-standard hydraulic methods for
system design and analysis. Rational, Modified Rational and Soil Conservation Service Unit hydrograph modeling
and pond-routing routines calculate hydrologic impacts for pond sizing and outflow characteristics. Users can
create the full set of hydrographs, drawings, and reports.

Project Deliverables
Bentley Rail Track provides design, volumes, and cross-section data in the XML industry standard format for data
exchange and reporting. Project data can be delivered in a variety of formats, including Excel spreadsheets,
HTML or text files, PDFs, printable documents, and other output. Reporting tools automate the production of
numerous standard reports including horizontal and vertical alignments, curvature diagrams and/or slew
diagrams, quantity takeoffs, clearance reports, stakeout, surfaces, and more. The software outputs standard
formats for Trimble, Topcon, and Leica for machine-controlled grading and machine guidance, as well as Plasser
& Theurer (ALC and WinALC systems) and Matisa tampers (the PALAS system) for construction.

Features At-A-Glance

Survey/Data Acquisition

Read/write standard data formats automatically for:


o Raw survey data from all major survey equipment
o 2D/3D CAD graphics
o ASCII/text data formats
o LandXML geometry (horizontal, vertical, and cant) and
surface data
o LiDAR data: ASCII and LAS
o USGS Digital Elevation Model data
o Aerial photographs
o Raster files
o Contour maps
o Photogrammetric data
Reduce survey data
Support feature coding for custom survey feature connectivity, display,
and annotation
Adjust raw data using Compass, Crandall, Transit, Level, and Least Squares methods
Edit survey fieldbook data graphically and dynamically
Change instrument set-up with automatic updating
Add, modify, or delete points and chains
Change codes and styles capabilities
Support Versine
Import geometry or surface data in virtually any ASCII format via Text
Import Wizard
Upload data collectors for construction stakeout
Upload Plasser & Theurers EM-SAT geometry measurement system

Mapping and Infrastructure GIS

Compile and efficiently edit data


Design, build, and publish accurate maps
Enforce business and topological rules
Provides CAD flexibility and GIS ease-of-use and efficiency to engineering workflows
Take advantage of full compatibility with Bentleys AEC applications
Analyze and present intelligent spatial analysis, thematic display, and buffer creation

Feature-based DTM and Feature Editing

Create intelligent 3D models


Model intelligent civil features for ditches, curbs, trees, culverts, etc.
Pass survey intelligence to 3D DTM modeling
Edit context-sensitive intelligent features
Extend, trim, and intersect features
Insert, move, and delete vertices
Delete, partially delete, break, or join features
Copy or transpose features
Support boundaries, holes, breaklines, inferred breaklines, and
random points
Analyze features with intuitive terrain modeling tools
Manage large LiDAR datasets
Base presentation and labeling by feature definition
Exclude non-DTM features from triangulation
Copy surface or portion of surface

DTM Analysis

Update plan, section, or profile

Generate contours from data points accounting for breaks, random points, voids, edges, and other
criteria
Control maximum length of triangles
Display cut and fill delineation
View and edit feature properties
Develop custom feature styles
Control point density of linear features to optimize surface presentation
Color code display by triangles, slopes, elevation, and aspect
View slope vectors
Analyze line of sight
Visualize gridded DTMs, profiled models, and elevation models
Thin surfaces
Generate grade contours
Interrogate surfaces
Display isopach

Geometric Design

Use interactive geometry tools for immediate design visualization


Use methods and principles specific to rail design and civil engineering
Create horizontal by points-of-intersection (PI) method or by elements:
o Lines
o Circular arcs (arc and chord definition)
o Multiple spiral transition definitions, including:
Clothoid
Cubic parabola
Bloss
Biquadratic parabola
Sinusoidal
Cosine
Viennese-Austria
Associative and dynamic editing of elements, maintaining curve definition and tangency
Create vertical by PI method or by elements:
o Lines
o Parabola
o Circular arcs
Vertical clothoid transition spirals
Edit, delete, or join geometric elements
Check Integrity for location and removal of discontinuities and resolution of tangent and non-tangent
curves
Assign and edit stationing automatically
Annotate alignments, stations, and COGO points
Precision PI definition
Define curve sets parametrically
Create multiple vertical alignments per horizontal alignment
Review and report geometric elements
Dynamic annotation
Perform design checks dynamically or in batch processes
Use curve and spiral calculators
Display geometry as 3D elements

Cant

Use equilibrium equations (Eq = 11.82 * V2/R)


Compute equilibrium cant, applied cant, cant deficiency, rate of change of applied cant, rate of
change of cant deficiency, and cant gradient
Supports ASCII tables
Compute transitions to match existing horizontal transitions
Compute virtual transitions (where horizontal transitions are not required, but cant is required)
Incorporate design checks when editing
Edit horizontal curves with integrated cant

Regression Analysis

Generate horizontal and vertical alignments from existing data using least squares solutions

Regress single or multiple elements


Regress horizontal and vertical elements
Detect points automatically for inclusion based upon direction and
distance tolerances
Convert surveyed rails to centerline
Review and edit regression points on demand
Exclude or include points in regression by selection criteria or data
analysis review
Automate point interrogation by user-defined criteria
Use curve diagrams for curve and transition resolution
Use slew diagrams to verify data consistency
Identify transition points via rail curvature diagram
Include cant via rail curvature diagram for regression

Turnouts

Create and edit turnouts interactively and dynamically for:


o Single branch
o Double branch
o Single slip
o Double slip
o Diamond crossings
Includes multiple bending methods:
o Swiss bending practice
o German bending practice
o UK tangent and offset practice
Includes industry-standard turnouts:
o AREMA
o ADIF, FGC, and TRANVIA (Spain)
o Denmark
o German Rail
o German Light Rail
o Indian Railways
o OBB (Austria)
o ProRail (Netherlands)
o Russia
o South Africa
o UK 113A and NR60
Employ tools for user-defined standards
Use Turnout Connection Editor to dynamically edit turnout positions/connections

Roadway Designer

Merge horizontal and vertical geometry with 3D topography for application of design standards and
typical sections
Define typical sections with horizontal and vertical geometry paths
Assign component control points to existing or designed features or geometry, controlling horizontal
and/or vertical location
Assign automatic overrides by feature or station intervals
View plan, profile, and cross section simultaneously
Control view scaling dynamically
Display right-of-way, existing ground, and other rail/road centerlines to enhance dynamic interaction
Model using parametric templates dynamically and interactively
Model dynamically in steps or batch process
Manage one or multiple corridors for plans, visualization, cross sections, and reporting
Control template sections, stationing, and intervals
Transition between disparate templates via 3D interface
Allows dynamic editing of cant/superelevation in super diagram
Apply exceptions for bridges, voids, and special end conditions
Assist problem resolutions through intelligent color coding of transitions, super runout, cross slope
conditions, etc.

Edit individual stations dynamically


Reflect edits automatically in quantities and volumes
Shade materials for enhanced clarity

Display 3D model-based graphics complete with 3D components

Storm Drainage and Sanitary Sewer Layout and Design

3D modeling
o Create 3D drainage model relative to topography and alignments
o Place multiple drainage structures along alignments by spacing and offsets
o Support interconnected network of pipes, curved pipes, channels, culverts, manholes,
pumps, catch basins, and inlets
o Creates associative and dynamic model-based designs
o Create storm, sanitary, or combined networks
o Build drainage models directly from survey data
o Delete or add any size pipe from library
o Apply any material and coefficient of roughness
o Identify 2D graphics as utilities and drape relative to terrain model
o Display all network and utility objects in sections and profiles
o Label all attributions in any view or include in user-defined reports
o Draw 3D models of drainage structures to full 3D shapes for easy clash detection
Design and analysis
o Analyze models using industry-standard equations such as Mannings, ColebrookWhite, Bernouli, and Continuity
o Use analysis based upon HEC22, FHWA, HDS 5, 10, 13, Modified
o Rational method, as well as regression equations
o Base network design upon equations above and sizes selected from user-defined
tables
o Compute drainage flows from areas using Modified Rational Method or CS Unit
Hydrograph Method
o Compute Tc via FAA, Kirpich, Overland Flow or LADOT methods
o Compute Tc from 3D model or specify
o Use demand and demographic tables for sewer computations
o Supports infiltration, population, and peaking factors as well as land usage
o Define and easily edit user parameters
o Compute or specify flows
Generate engineering reports from design and analysis for inclusion in project
notebook
o Define custom Intensity-Duration-Frequency tables
o Generate drainage queries and reports
o Color code based upon queries or set-up styles for special symbology by type and
size
Pond routing
o Calculate pond volumes from surfaces or specified dimensions
o Create input and output hydrographs
o Design inlet and outlet control structures

Quantity Management

Automate quantity takeoffs to streamline quantity estimating


Link design features and graphics to a Master Pay Item list
Report quantities by entire project or delineated by sheets, stations, area,
or phase
Report on design features and graphic elements
Deliver more than 60 formulas or easily customize your own, each with unlimited variables and
arithmetic operations
Generate linear, area, and volume quantities
Integrate non-graphic (mobilization, etc.) quantities in takeoffs and reports
Store quantities in a nonproprietary database accessed with Microsoft Office applications
Execute reports in stand-alone environment when desired
Integrate with Trns*port for pay item list and cost estimates
Apply funding splits and payer rules to quantities
Choose from more than 30 sample reports, including CSV, HTML, TXT,
and PDF
Modify sample reports or create custom reports through XML style sheets

Design Validation

Use industry-standard design checks for:


o Austrian Rail

CEN Standards
Danish Rail
Dutch Rail
German Rail
Transrapid
And more
Review design in curvature diagrams and slew diagrams
Annotate plan and profiles
Generate XSL/XML reports for horizontal alignments, vertical alignments, and cant

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Export to Field for Construction

Plasser & Theurer tampers (ALC and WinALC systems)


Matisa tampers (the PALAS system)
Trimble
Leica
LandXML

Integration with Bentley Content Management and Publishing Solutions

ProjectWise, Bentleys engineering project team collaboration system


ProjectWise InterPlot, providing teams with publishing solutions for creating accurate and
intelligent deliverables
ProjectWise Navigator, visual collaboration for immersive project review and analysis
ProjectWise Dynamic Plot, for error-free markup and review

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