BETTER DECISIONSBEGIN WITHBETTER DATA ACQUISITIOND E L I V E R B E T T E R R A I L I N F R A S T R U C T U R E W I T H O P E N R A I L ™ D E S I G N E R

Collecting data in the field is an important start to any civil infrastructure project and an equally important factor to timely project delivery. Not only do you need the ability to quickly, comprehensively, and precisely capture existing conditions to produce accurate 3D models, but you also need an application that can easily consume data from a variety of sources.

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PRECISE DATA ACQUISITION IS KEY

Better data acquisition leads to:

OpenRail Designer helps you effectively understand existing conditions. You can incorporate, analyze, and manipulate a wide range of data such as point clouds, reality meshes, photogrammetry, terrain, and more. ContextCapture, Bentley’s reality modeling software, integrates seamlessly with OpenRail, so you can easily generate high-fidelity, 3D reality models from simple photographs and/or point clouds.

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TERRAIN MODELSREALITY MESHES RASTER IMAGERYPOINT CLOUDS

> INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY Minimize survey rework and design delays by acquiring broader and more detailed reality data during the project onset.

> IMPROVE SAFETY Ensure safety in the field, and for the community, with the ability to see how designs interact in existing conditions.

> ACCELERATED PROJECT DELIVERY Minimize project delays with the ability to eliminate errors and design chang-es early in the project.

OpenRail Designer ensures the best return on your investment with the ability to better understand site and existing conditions throughout the planning, design, construction, and operation of your infrastructure asset. Better data acquisition enables better decisions early in the design phase, resulting in:

BUSINESS BENEFITS

The California High Speed Rail Authority is planning the first high-speed rail system in the United States, which will ferry passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours at speeds of more than 200 miles per hour. Responsible for the portion of the railway that runs from Burbank to Anaheim, California the engineering team at Jacobs/Zephyr UAS used unmanned aerial vehicles to capture mapping data of the rail corridor, enabling the authorities to determine right-way impacts with improved accuracy reducing the environmental footprint of the project.

REAL WORLD SUCCESSJACOBS/ZEPHYR UASMapping 42 Miles of California High Speed Rail Corridor Utilizing UAVs

Burbank to Los Angeles to Anaheim, California, United States

THE PROJECT TEAM: Using MicroStation and OpenRail, Jacobs/Zephyr UAS prepared base maps for the track plans using the aerial mapping data obtained from the UAVs. The geographically dispersed project team used ProjectWise for efficient data sharing and version control. Combining the use of UAVs with Bentley technology allowed for the detailed mapping to be completed within eight weeks instead of 18 weeks using manned vehicles. This resulted in a 78% reduction in delivery time and an 87% reduction in mapping costs.

PROJECT PLAYBOOK: OpenRail, MicroStation, ProjectWise

OpenRail Designer creates an open, connected data environment for engineers and designers of rail infrastructure. Using this open data environment, the team improved collaboration and decision making across all phases of rail and transit projects. It also assured constructability, cross-discipline design review, conflict resolution, and mitigation of risk before construction started.

The innovative Bentley application supports all aspects of a detailed railway design including yard and station design, tunnels, corridor modeling, turnout and switch placement, overhead line electrification, site development, sanitary and stormwater network design, and subsurface utilities.

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