InfraWorks: Enhancing and Optimizing Roads

Course details

Autodesk InfraWorks offers unparalleled features for helping transportation planners and civil engineers efficiently plan and design roads. In this course, you can learn how to optimize and enhance roads within an existing InfraWorks model. Instructor Lynda Sharkey shows how to use style-based roads to more precisely control geometry and grades. In addition, she demonstrates how to create your own component assemblies that use vertical as well as horizontal geometry for more advanced capabilities, such as superelevation, as well as how to analyze and optimize the roads that you create. Plus, learn how to analyze traffic flow and display color-coded traffic analysis results by setting up InfraWorks traffic simulations.

Learning objectives
Working with design roads
Creating and editing component roads
Enhancing your road designs
Applying superelevation
Working with intersections and roundabouts
Analyzing and optimizing roads
Viewing and exporting earthwork and material quantities
Optimizing corridors
Creating and editing a traffic simulation

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Enhancing and optimizing roads
02 - What you should know
03 - Working with the exercise files

1. Roads within InfraWorks - A Recap of the Basics

04 - Model housekeeping
05 - Road type refresher
06 - Working with component roads
07 - Creating component roads
08 - Editing component roads
09 - Working with components for component roads
10 - Working with component road assemblies
11 - Modifying component roads
12 - Component road decorations

2. Editing and Enhancing Road Designs

13 - Understanding superelevation
14 - Applying superelevation
15 - Inspecting superelevation
16 - Working with intersections, part 1
17 - Working with intersections, part 2
18 - Working with roundabouts, part 1
19 - Working with roundabouts, part 2

3. Analyzing and Optimizing Roads

20 - Sight distance analysis refresher
21 - Sight distance analysis on roads
22 - Sight distance analysis on intersections
23 - Earthwork quantities
24 - Materials quantities
25 - Corridor optimization - Setting avoidance areas
26 - Corridor optimization - Optimizing a road corridor

4. Mobility and Traffic Simulation

27 - Traffic simulation overview - Setting up a traffic study area
28 - Traffic simulation - Nomenclature
29 - Traffic simulation - Quick simulation
30 - Traffic simulation - Traffic analyst panel
31 - Traffic simulation - Where to get data
32 - Traffic simulation - Creating a simulation
33 - Traffic simulation - Assigning signals
34 - Traffic simulation - Previewing and editing a traffic simulation
35 - Traffic simulation - Playing a bespoke simulation in InfraWorks

Conclusion

36 - Next steps

InfraWorks: Enhancing and Optimizing Roads

Authors

Lynda Sharkey