Chapter 1: Introducing InRoads Surfaces 1-1

Section 1 - History 1-1

The Early days 1-1

The 3D Terrain Model 1-1

The Intelligent Engineering Model 1-1

Section 2 - The InRoads DTM: Terrain and Engineering Modeling 1-2

“Traditional” Terrain Modeling 1-2

The Feature-Based Engineering Model 1-9

Section 3 - Creating Surfaces through Importing 1-14

The Import Surface form 1-14

Creating a New Surface 1-14

Importing Features from a Text File 1-16

Adding Graphical Spot Elevations 1-26

Bounding the Surface 1-29

Importing Underground Utilities 1-32

Section 4 - Other Important Commands 1-34

Oops: Deleting Features 1-34

Chapter 2: Surface Editing Tools 2-1

Section 1 - Merging Surfaces 2-1

Destination and “Intermediate” Surfaces 2-2

Section 2 - Generate Longitudinal Feature 2-6

Section 3 - Generate Sloped Surface 2-15

Tying into the Existing Surface 2-16

Section 4 - Adding the Daylight Features to the design surface. 2-19

Chapter 3: Building a Site 3-1

Section 1 - The Major Design commands 3-1

Place Feature 3-1

Edit Feature Point 3-5

Generate Longitudinal Feature 3-6

Generate Sloped Surface 3-14

Copy Portion of Surface 3-16

The Project Line to Surface command 3-18

Partial Delete 3-21

Chapter 4: Building Horizontal Alignments: the Basics 4-1

Section 1 - Managing Geometry 4-1

Communication 4-1

Organizing Geometry 4-1

Section 2 - Building Practice Alignments 4-3

Creating New Geometry 4-3

Building Horizontal Alignments with the Horizontal Curve Set tools. 4-7

Saving the Geometry Project 4-9

Clarification: The Identify Alignment End prompt 4-10

Insert PI, Move PI and Delete PI 4-14

Section 3 - Project Lab: Creating Road Alignments 4-18

Chapter 5: Building Vertical Alignments: the Basics 5-1

Section 1 - Creating the Profile 5-1

Scaling Text 5-2

Creating a New Vertical Alignment 5-2

Section 2 - The Vertical Curve Set commands 5-3

Add [Vertical] PI 5-4

Defining Vertical Curves 5-6

Chapter 6: Introducing Roadway Modeling 6-1

Section 1 - Roadway Modeling Overview 6-1

Typical vs. “Deviations from Typical” 6-1

Roadway Modeling in InRoads 6-1

InRoads Typical Sections 6-2

“Dropping Templates” 6-2

Section 2 - Exploring Typical Sections in a Library 6-4

Loading the “Building InRoads” Typical Section Library 6-4

Explore the Typical Section Library 6-5

Reviewing Template Information 6-6

Section 3 - Modeling a Roadway using Express Modeler. 6-7

Running Express Modeler 6-7

Section 4 - Managing the Newly Created Surfaces 6-9

Safeguarding Surfaces 6-9

Managing the new Proposed Surfaces 6-11

Adding Information to the Features 6-14

Chapter 7: Introduction to Building Templates 7-1

Section 1 - Template Overview 7-1

The Edit Template form 7-1

Managing Transition Control 7-7

Superelevation Settings 7-8

Section 2 - Building New Templates 7-9

Copy and Edit vs. Creating from Scratch 7-9

Building Templates from Scratch 7-12

Chapter 8: Managing InRoads Settings 8-1

Section 1 - Managing InRoads: the Big Picture 8-1

InRoads Management Technologies 8-1

Example of an Attempt to Manage an InRoads Environment Well 8-2

The end user’s expectation and role in Managing the InRoads Environment 8-2

Section 2 - Managing InRoads: the Specifics 8-3

Named Symbology 8-3

Feature Styles 8-7

Preferences. 8-14

Chapter 9: Utilities 9-1

Section 1 - Utility Creation Concepts 9-1

Defining the Intelligence 9-1

Vertical Location 9-2

Managing Utilities 9-2

Displaying in Profile and Cross Section 9-3

Section 2 - Using the Place Feature command 9-3

Section 3 - Importing from Graphics 9-4

Providing Approximate Elevations (only if necessary) 9-4

Chapter 10: Horizontal and Vertical Element Geometry 10-1

Section 1 - How the Horizontal Element Commands work 10-1

Display the Horizontal Alignment Toolbar. 10-2

Integrity 10-3

Forms and Prompts 10-3

Starting Simple: Add Fixed Line 10-3

The Edit Horizontal Element command 10-5

The Add Fixed Curve command 10-8

“Directionality” 10-11

The Add Floating Line Command 10-13

The Add Floating Curve Command 10-14

The Define Spiral command 10-15

The Delete Horizontal Element Command 10-15

The Check Integrity command 10-15

“Real” Lab: Cross-Valley Canyon 10-16

Section 2 - Vertical Element Commands 10-17

Chapter 11: Introducing Decision Tables 11-1

Section 1 - Overview 11-1

Section 2 - Reducing the Engineering 11-4

Section 3 - How Decision Tables Work 11-9

Decision Table Record Controls 11-10

Decision Table Logic 11-14

Building, Evaluating and Debugging 11-15

Section 4 - Lab: Building a Decision Table 11-15

Section 5 - Revisiting the Engineering in Decision Table Terms 11-25