Advanced Intersection Design with Roadway Designer

1. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated Chuck Lawson GEOPAK Product Engineer Advanced Intersection Design with Roadway Designer

2. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Intersection Design Designing an intersection can be a complex and iterative process. There are an abundance of criteria to consider such as min/max slopes, stopping sight distance, drainage and R/W constraints just to name a few. There are many techniques in Roadway Designer that can be used to model intersections. This presentation will cover the workflow used to model a skewed intersection. In addition, this method may be used to model an intersection where the mainline roadway is within the limits of a horizontal curve. This method will ultimately work for most intersection types. 2

3. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 3 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Project Review 3

4. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 4 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Project Review Before we begin, lets review our project data and the template that well be using. U.S. 301 New Construction Template 4

5. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 5 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Project Review Drive RT New Construction Template 5

6. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 6 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM 6 Project Review Demo

7. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 7 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Creating Corridors The first step in the process is to create separate corridors for the mainline and the side road. 7

8. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 8 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Creating Corridors Demo 8

9. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 9 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Intersection Design Now that we have created our corridors, we are ready to begin work on our intersection. First, we need to produce our radius return geometry, both horizontally and vertically using the Multi-Center Curve application. 9

10. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 10 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Creating Radius Return Alignments There are several ways to calculate radius return elevations. Vertical Offset from PGL Pavement Slope from PGL Elevation Calculate from Surface Model 10 For this exercise, well demonstrate how to calculate the beginning and ending elevations of the of the returns from a model.

11. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 11 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Design Horizontal/Vertical Returns Through the use of the Multi-Center Curve application, we can have GEOPAK design our preliminary Horizontal and Vertical curb return geometry. 11

12. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 12 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Design Horizontal/Vertical Returns The Multi-Center Curve application can create one- center, two-center or three-center compound curves at the intersection of two alignments. The applications creates a new horizontal alignment in the geometry database and, if desired, a vertical alignment as well. 12

13. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 13 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Design Horizontal/Vertical Returns Demo 13

14. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 14 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Integrate Returns into Side Road Now that we have the horizontal and vertical geometry for our curb returns, we can integrate this geometry into the design of the intersection. 14

15. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 15 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Integrate Returns into Side Road Change the template drop location of the side road corridor DriveRT to not include the radius returns Create corridors of both radius returns Drop templates into each new corridor and modify to only use half sections Use a point control to target the edge of the mainline corridor Use a point control to target the side road baseline and profile 15

16. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 16 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Integrate Returns into Side Road Demo 16

17. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 17 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Combining the Corridors Turn on Target Aliasing for both radius return corridors to target and clip the mainline corridor Create a combine surface clipping off the end conditions along the mainline corridor 17

18. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 18 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Combining the Corridors Demo 18

19. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 19 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Fine Tuning the Model Lastly, we look for any issues or problems with the intersection that may need to be corrected. Some examples may include: Fill slope transitions End Condition Exceptions Parametric Constraints Ditch width transitions Adjusting Corridor limits for tolerance issues Transitioning Shoulder Widths / Slopes Etc. 19

20. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 20 | WWW.BENTLEY.COM Fine Tuning the Model Demo 20

21. 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated Chuck Lawson GEOPAK Product Engineer Advanced Intersection Design with Roadway Designer