EARTHWORK OPTIMIZATION

Quickly Explore Feasible Alignments.
Estimate & Reduce Your Earthwork Costs.
Optimize your Road Design Process.

Design roads, highways, and corridors that cost less to build. Adding optimization to your geometric design process allows you to deliver a lower-cost design. It also allows you to design faster.

Softree Optimal is a patented road (alignment) optimization add-on to RoadEng.

Use the Path Explorer AI tool to quickly determine feasible corridor options on your terrain model. See optimized route options in minutes.
Use Vertical Optimization to minimize cuts & fills and material movement costs, balancing your earthworks. Save 10-30% on your subgrade construction costs with road optimization.

Path Explorer AI

Path Explorer AI is a quick & easy, preliminary road locating tool inside of the Terrain module. It is built to find optimized routes between two points, A & B, and does so in minutes!
You can include constraints like max grade, min cut / max fill, no-go zones, high-cost zones, and crossing costs.

Optimize Your Road Alignment: Vertically and Horizontally

Consistently find the lowest-cost vertical alignment design that satisfies your design constraints & standards. Vertical optimization on its own typically brings down construction costs by 10-30% or more, depending on the project.

Horizontally optimization works within a defined range of IP movement. Resulting improvements over 50% cost reduction are not uncommon.

Design Time Costing

Built-in costing models allow you to calculate your alignment's subgrade construction costs as you design. Quantitively compare multiple alignments and design variables based on construction cost. Know your cost & reduce it.

Optimized Material Movement Schedule

Our Opti-Haul graphic is a detailed plan for visually analyzing optimal material movement. Similar to a mass haul, but with more detail, it includes movement by material and by direction. Opti-Haul graphic (and data export) gives users a prescriptive plan to reduce their haulage costs and make construction jobs more efficient.

Check Feasibility

Define your design standards and constraints ensure your alignment automatically meets your criteria. Check the feasibility of proposed designs and constraints. View your constraints through the visual feedback of the profile window (including display of the vertical band).

Automatically Balance Mass Haul with Smart Pits

Softree Optimal will look to internally balance your corridor. If not possible, Softree Optimal with leverage Smart Pits.

Define available pit locations capacities, distance from the alignment, and preparation cost and Optimal will select the most appropriate ones.

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