HEADS Pro

Introduced by TechSOFT Engineering Services

 HEADS Pro Release 24.0
(1998 – 2021)
Software HEADS Pro has complete Engineering applications on Highways, Expressways,
Hill Roads, Low-Cost Rural Roads, Gravel Roads, Bituminous and Concrete Pavements,
Design of Signalized and Un-signalized Road Intersections, Multi-level Highway
Interchanges, Highway Drainage.

•Conceptual Design at Proposal Stage

•Preliminary Design and Cost Estimation at Feasibility Study Stage
•Draft Final Design with various options at DPR Stage
•Final Design and Cost Estimation for Bid Documents at DPR Stage
•Design and Drawings as “Good For Construction” by Concessionaire
•As-Built Design and Drawings with Complete Details of Construction

The Design has provisions for Project requirements, Site situation, Local Peoples’
Demand, Safety Considerations, Improving Accident Black-spots, Minimum
Environmental Impact and Green Highways Standard, Natural Climate and Weather
Change, Flood and Land Slide, Disaster Management Facilities.
 The Text Book “Computer Aided Highway Engineering”, Published by CRC Press of Taylor and Francis Group, Florida, USA, is
used by Engineering Universities, Govt. Departments, Consultants, Construction Industry in USA, UK, Europe, Canada, South
America, Africa, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh,
Middle East and other countries.
This book has used software “HEADS Pro” for producing various sophisticated project deliverables by computer applications.
 HEADS Pro Release 24….Features
• Design of Uniform cross section highways and low cost rural roads,
• Design of Multiple cross section urban streets, highways, expressways,
freeways
• Design for Highway widening, by changing widening pattern over
specified lengths
• Design of Hill roads with extra widening, varying cut slopes on depth
of cut, provisions for gabion wall, retaining walls
• Design of Vehicular Tunnels and structural design of RCC Tunnel Lining
with portals and steel ribs
• Design of At Grade Intersections, Roundabouts, Insertion of
Intersection Type Design and Swept path Analysis
• Design of Multi Level Grade Separated Interchanges,
• Design of High Speed Car Racing Track with alignment by Closed
Traverse and Parabolic Concave Cross Section
 HEADS Pro Release 24 Features….Continued
• Interactive Visual Alignment design for Highways, Low cost rural roads, Tunnels,
Railways etc.
• Processing Geometric design with detail reports containing complete set of site
setting-out information
• Producing best formatted construction drawings for PLAN, PROFILE and CROSS
SECTIONS
• Flexible pavement design for Highways and Rural Roads by following AASHTO, IRC
SP 20, SP 72, etc.,
• Rigid Concrete Pavement design by following AASHTO standard
• Pavement Overlay design by using Benkelman Beam Rebound Deflection Data
• Layered System Analysis for Pavement improvement by using Geotextiles, Fiber
Glass Geogrids etc.
• Bituminous Mix Design for various Bituminous layers
• Computation of Equivalent Standard Axle in Millions (MSA) by using Axle Load
Survey data
• Hydrological design of Highway Drainage,
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• Design of Loop alignments for Multi-level Grade separated Interchanges and

Intersections etc.
• Design of Tunnels with RCC Lining by using Rock Quality Designation (RQD) and
Rock Mass Rating (RMR)
• Detailed and well formatted Design Reports and Drawings.
• Processing Cross Sections Survey by Auto Level with Digital Terrain Model (DTM)
and Ground Contours,
• Bill of Quantities for Running Account Billing with Analysis for Unit Item Rates,
• Generating Site Setting out drawings with details allowing desired modifications
as and when required,
• Preparation of As built Drawings
• Alignment Control for Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM),
• String Tables with Elevations at Normal Cross fall & Super elevated sections for
construction by advanced motor grader and Paver.
 HEADS Pro Release 24 Features….Continued
• Co-ordinate Conversion to exchange data between GPS & Total Station.
• Traverse Survey with String Modeling and closing error distribution.
• Contouring with user defined intervals and display of Elevations.
• DTM is accurate & can take up to 600,000 points.
• Conceptualization of Route Alignment on Aerial Photograph / Satellite Imagery.
• Low Cost Rural Road design using IRC SP 19, SP 20 & SP 72.
• Optimized road profile design for Exact Quantity of Pavement, Profile correction & Overlay.
• Design of Hill Roads with Sharp bends and variety of design conditions.
• Hydrological design of Highway Drainage.
• Pavement design & Cost Estimation with Analysis for Unit Item Rates.
• Asphalt Concrete Mix Design & Quality Control.
• Auto level survey for Contours, Cross Sections and Bill of Quantities.
• Extended ground in Cross Section drawing to show full Survey Corridor.
• Built-in CAD engine for viewing and editing drawings compatible to AutoCAD.
• DXF Plan, Profile & Cross Section Drawings compatible to all CAD software.
• Long Section Drawing with Alignment & Super Elevation details, even in 1 Km (or any length) Pieces.
• Plan drawings in sheet wise pieces by Sheet Layout.
• Interactive design for full length of highway in one go (in True Sense).
• Control on Shifting of Alignment for Tunnel Centre Line.
• 3D perspective view from various angles
 HEADS Pro

Topographic Survey
and
Digital Terrain Model (DTM)
 HEADS Pro
Topographic Survey

• The Highway detail engineering starts with

Topographic Survey which is done by various
instruments, primarily:

• Total Station
• Autolevel / Digital Level
• GPS
• Satellite Imagery
• Arial Photographs
 Topographic Survey
Application of Topo-Survey Instruments

• Total Station instrument is most commonly used for

topographic survey along the proposed highway corridor

• GPS instrument is extremely useful in fixing green field

alignments for realignments and bypasses, identifying rural
roads from core network and new hill road alignments
 Topographic Survey
Topographic Survey by Total Station and GPS Instruments

HEADS Pro accurately processes Total Station Survey Data for

Ground Model, Triangulation and Contours
 Topographic Survey
Topo Survey Data Downloaded from Satellite by SRTM

The Satellite data by Global Mapper are effectively used by

HEADS Pro to obtain the ground Topographic data
 Topographic Survey
Digital Terrain Model (DTM)
by Ground Modeling, Triangulation and Contours

The DTM is developed either by using Total Station data or by using

Topographic data downloaded from Satellite by Global Mapper
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Highway Geometrics

Highway Alignment and Vertical Profile

 Highway Geometrics
Design of Horizontal Alignment

Design of horizontal alignment is best done in CAD

Workspace by interactive way using various design facilities
 Highway Geometrics
Design of Vertical Profile

Design of vertical profile is best done in the interactive

way in CAD Workspace by various design facilities, like
optimization etc.
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Design and Construction

of Highway with
Uniform or Multiple Cross Sections
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Design Elements of Highway Cross Section
Central Verge of Median
Carriageways
Paved Shoulders
Earthen Shoulders
Drains
Service Roads
Utility Corridor

The Design includes Normal Crossfall/Camber and Superelevation in

curved alignments
 Highway Cross Section

Applying Typical Dual Carriageway Typical Cross Section (TCS 01)

without service roads in Non Urban zones
 Highway Cross Section

Applying Typical Dual Carriageway Typical Cross Section

(TCS 02) with service roads in Urban zones
 Highway Cross Section

Applying Typical Dual Carriageway Typical Cross Section

(TCS 04) with service roads in Non-Urban zones
 Highway Cross Section

Applying Elevated Dual Carriageway Typical Cross Section (TCS 08) with
service roads in Urban zones
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Highway Widening

Un-symmetric / Eccentric Widening

Symmetric / Concentric Widening

With change of widening patern

And
Change of Cross Section
With VUP, PUP, RoB, RUB and Elevated Section
 Highway Widening
In highway widening projects the widening pattern changes from
left to right and concentric widening, besides changes in cross
section types along the length of the project highway
 HEADS Pro

Design and Construction of Rural Roads

 Design and Construction of Rural Roads
under PMGSY

HEADS Pro is very effective for the Design of low cost rural
roads by starting from Core Network of Village Roads,
identifying the origin to destination of each road by using GPS,
developing alignment geometrics, pavement design, BoQ and
Cost estimation and finally producing the construction drawings
helps in preparing the Bid documents and further for
construction at site.
 Design and Construction of Rural Roads

Applying Single Carriageway Typical Cross Sections(TCS 07) with desired modifications in Rural
Road Projects,
 Design and Construction of Rural Roads
Selecting of Village Roads from Core network in Rural Road Projects

GPS is effectively used to identify village roads and in fixing

alignments and vertical profile by processing in HEADS Pro,
 Design and Construction of Rural Roads
Automatic Optimization of Vertical Profile

Optimization technique helps in developing horizontal

alignments and vertical profiles. This results lowest
possible construction cost by using HEADS Pro
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Design and Construction of Hill Roads

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Special provisions in Hill Road design
• Extra widening are best provided by HEADS Pro,
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Special provisions in Hill Road design
• Providing Gabion Walls on cut side and Retaining Walls on
valley side are common requirement, additionally Cut Slopes
varying with depth of cut are best provided by HEADS Pro,
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Design of Multi-Level Grade Separated

Interchanges

for Un-interrupted Traffic Flow

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Design of Cloverleaf, Trumpet, Diamond Interchanges

HEADS Pro has special techniques of design for Main Line, Loops, Ramps and Slip
Roads essentially required for the design of Interchanges of various configurations.
Dhaula Kuan Interchange on Ring Road, New Delhi, located in between Moti Bag
and Narayana by CPWD was designed by software HEADS Pro in the year 2000.
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Design of At-Grade
Intersections

for Signalized and Un-Signalized

Traffic Flow
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Special provisions in Design of At Grade Road Intersections
• HEADS Pro has interactive design facilities for design of Main Line, Slip
Roads, Acceleration lanes, Deceleration lanes, Merges and Diverges
essentially required for the design of At Grade Road Intersections of
various configurations suitable to specific site situations.
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Design and Estimation of

Bored Tunnels
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Tunnel Design

Survey by Robot Type Total Station delivers Scan data which is accurately processed by HEADS
Pro to produce accurate Alignment, Profile and Cross Sections for the Tunnel, The design of
RCC Tunnel Lining with Portal and Steel Ribs are rare in other Highway design softwares,
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Bored Tunnel Design

The Cross section Drawings are produced with estimation details for Design cut, Under cut, Over
Cut and Pay line cut.
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Design of Highway Pavements

Design of Flexible and Rigid Pavements

Pavement Overlay by BBD test data
Analysis for Layered Pavement System
Design of Bituminous Mixes
 Design of Flexible Pavements

Design of Flexible Pavements for Highways in AASHTO & IRC method, by Computation of MSA using Axle
Load Data, Design of Pavement Overlay with Benkelman Deflection Data, Analysis for Layered pavement
Systems, Asphalt / Bituminous Mix Design by using Aggregate Grading and Marshall Test data.
Design of Rigid Pavements

Design of Rigid Pavements for Highways in AASHTO method

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Construction Drawings

Drawings are created for

Survey Base MAP
PLAN, PROFILE and CROSS SECTIONS
 Construction Drawings are produced with Details as per International Standard

• Design and Site Setting out details are written in the

Construction Drawings by HEADS Pro by following
international Standards,
 Drawing for Survey Base Plan

Survey Base Plan Drawings are produced with Details,

Legends, Color Codes, CAD Layers, Codes, Styles, Texts and
Symbols as per International Standard,
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Summary of Features
 Summary of Applications
by HEADS Pro
• Applications for Projects :
 
• Design of uniform cross section highways, low cost rural roads, hill roads
• Design of Multiple cross section urban streets, highways, expressways,
freeways
• Design for highway widening, by changing widening pattern over specified
lengths
• Design of hill roads with extra widening, varying cut slopes on depth of
cut, provisions for gabion wall, retaining walls
• Design of vehicular tunnels and structural design of RCC Tunnel Lining
with portals and steel ribs
• Design of At grade intersections, roundabouts, multilevel grade separated
interchanges
 Summary of Applications
by HEADS Pro …. Continued.
•Applications for Engineering Design :

• Alignment design for Highways, Low cost rural roads, Tunnels, Railways, MRT, LRT etc.
• Processing Geometric design with detail reports containing complete set of site setting-out
information
• Producing best formatted construction drawings for PLAN, PROFILE, Cross Sections
• Flexible pavement design for Highways and Rural Roads by following AASHTO, IRC SP 20, SP 72, etc.,
• Rigid Concrete Pavement design by following AASHTO standard
• Pavement Overlay design by using Benkelman Bean rebound deflection data
• Layered System Analysis for Pavement improvement using Geotextiles, Fiber Glass geogrids etc.
• Bituminous Mix Design for various bituminous layers
• Hydrological design of Highway Drainage,
• Multi-level Grade separated Interchanges and Intersections etc.
• Design of Tunnels with RCC Lining by using Rock Quality Designation (RQD) and Rock Mass Rating
(RMR)
 Summary of Applications
by HEADS Pro …. Continued.
• Applications for Engineering Design :

• Detailed and well formatted Design Reports and Drawings.

• Produces LANDXML output for 3D Visualization Drive Through by using software
UC/winRoad.
• Produces Estimation of Quantities and Analysis of Item Unit Rates,
• Processing Cross Sections Survey by Auto Level,
• Bill of Quantities for Running Account Billing
• Analysis for Unit Item Rates,
• Generating Site Setting out details with desired modifications as and when required,
• Preparation of As built Drawings
• Alignment Control for Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM),
• String Tables with Elevations at Normal Cross fall & Super elevated sections for
construction by advanced motor grader and Paver.
 Summary of Applications
by HEADS Pro …. Continued.
• Special Points on Technical Specifications:
 
• Co-ordinate Conversion to exchange data between GPS & Total Station.
• Traverse Survey with String Modeling and closing error distribution.
• Contouring with user defined intervals and display of Elevations.
• DTM is accurate & can take up to 300,000 points.
• Model Strings may take up to 20,000 Strings.
• Conceptualization of Route Alignment on Aerial Photograph / Satellite Imagery.
• Co-ordinate transformation from Long-Lat to East-North and the reverse
• Low Cost Rural Road design using IRC SP 19, SP 20 & SP 72.
• Design and estimating of Rural Roads with “No Land Acquisition” criterion
• Optimized road profile design for Exact Quantity of Pavement, Profile correction & Overlay.
• Design of Hill Roads with Sharp bends and variety of design conditions.
• Expressway design with Speed higher than 100 KPH following AASHTO.
• Hydrological design of Highway Drainage.
• Pavement design & Cost Estimation with Analysis for Unit Item Rates.
 Summary of Applications
by HEADS Pro …. Continued.
• Special Points on Technical Specifications:

• Asphalt Concrete Mix Design & Quality Control.

• Auto level survey for Cross Sections and Bill of Quantities.
• Extended ground in Cross Section drawing to show full Survey Corridor.
• Built-in CAD engine for viewing and editing drawings compatible to AutoCAD.
• DXF Plan, Profile & Cross Section Drawings compatible to all CAD software.
• Long Section Drawing with Alignment & Super Elevation details, even in Pieces.
• Plan drawings in sheet wise pieces by Sheet Layout.
• Interactive design for a length of 100 Km in one go (in True Sense).
• Control on Shifting of Alignment for Tunnel Centre Line.
• Design interchangeability with other popular Road design software.
• 3D perspective view from various angles
• Exporting LANDXML data for “Drive Through” Simulation by UC winRoad.
• Straight forward interactive design for Main Alignment & Interchange Loops.
• Irregular occurrence of Service Roads on either side and change of cross section.
 Thank you….

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