By – Rahul Rana

Detailed 3d Modelling and Geometric Design of Highway Using MTech Scholar

Civil 3d In Collision with Infraworks 360
Geeta Engineering College
Table of content

Introduction

Design Methodology

Design Output

Conclusion
1. Introduction
Geometric design of highway can be carried out into various stages; Collecting survey data, Horizontal alignment
design, vertical alignment design & cross-section of road, which combines to give a 3D layout of Corridor.

Survey data is needed to be collected from the site by means of various survey techniques which is further used to
create a detailed terrain model in Infraworks 360/ Civil3D

Horizontal alignment is defined and located in the plan view. It defines the top view of our highway, which includes
three important elements namely; Tangents, Circular Curves & Transition curves.

Vertical alignment is the longitudinal view of the highway displaying the important components; summit curves, valley
curves & the gradient connecting these curves along the levels of the highway.

Highway cross-section shows the details of the roadway such as the number of lanes, width of road and thicknesses of
the layers of the carriageway, Drains and the right of way (ROW) of highway.
 Survey and Data Collection

Design criteria

2. DESIGN
Flow chart of the Design Procedure for
METHODOLOGY Infraworks & AutoCAD Civil 3D
Designing Horizontal alignment of highway.

Designing vertical alignment of highway

Survey Data Collection

• Various Surveys like

Reconnaissance survey,
Preliminary survey, map
study, traffic studies are
carried out before
starting the project. Site
is visited and the main
features of the area are
observed.
Design criteria

• The design criteria which

is based on the Indian
Road Congress design
standard IRC SP 73-2015
are assigned to complete
the geometric design of
highway
Flow chart of
the Design
Procedure for
Infraworks &
AutoCAD Civil
3D
Designing Horizontal alignment of highway

• The horizontal alignment

are designed keeping in
mind that the alignment
should be fluent as it
must nor have too many
curves, Ideal alignment
must be chosen avoiding
the sharp, the curves
must have appropriate
length.
Designing vertical alignment of highway

• In the first step we need to

create the existing ground
profile using profile view
option from the ribbon. After
generating the existing profile,
we need to create a new
profile with the help of the
profile creation tool, this new
profile will be our finished
grade of the highway.
Horizontal Alignment Vertical Alignment

3. Design Output
Typical Cross-section/Assemblies
3D model of corridor in Civil 3d 3D model of corridor in Infraworks 360
 • After performing the complete design of
the highway, we can conclude by saying
that these designing tools helped a lot
4. Conclusion in designing and the efficiency of work
has been increased drastically, which
makes the completion of work much
faster
Thank You