Software for Railway Design

Railway Maintenance and

Railway Reconstruction

Version 2015

Ferrovia 2015Railway Design Software

Ferrovia is a professional software for railroad/railway design, railway maintenance and railway reconstruction design. It is a comprehensive, full featured yet easy to use railway design solution.

With its original design workflow, Ferrovia provides the user with the commands and tools to support the entire design process; from the initial input of survey data to complex 3D rail models with analysis tools, to documentation and publishing features. Using its flexible data model Ferrovia can be easily integrated into BIM processes.

Ferrovia includes functionality for cant design, switches design, detailed cross-sections geometry design and more. It can easily handle large pro-jects with alignment lengths of several hundred km.

Railway engineers use Ferrovia for preliminary design, design of detailed geometry railway 3D models and for technical documentation produc-tion. Ferrovia includes worldwide rail industry standards and regulations with support for various track gauges, transition curves and cant calcu-lation methods.

Ferrovia also provides advanced tools for existing rail track regression analysis supported with rail maintenance tools to help engineers per-form analysis of existing rail tracks and prepare data for rail track main-tenance machinery e.g. Plasser & Theurer tamping machines.

Used for Railway Design, Railway maintenance and Railway Reconstruction design of conventional and high speed rail tracks, industrial, underground or metro rail tracks.

Supported CAD platforms

AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D 2015 to 2010; BricsCAD V14 to V12

Supported languages

English, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian

Supported standards

German, Austrian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian

Product Internet page

www.ferrovia-software.com www.cgsplus.com

Ferrovia Features• Ferrovia manages complex rail geometry designs, supporting lin-

ear and nonlinear parabolas for conventional and high speed rail tracks design.

• Support for various rail gauges, railway cant calculation and editing methods, custom turnout geometry and editable cross section geometry make Ferrovia applicable worldwide.

• Cant design and editing tools.

• Turnouts design tools with profile design and editing capabili-ties.

• Detailed cross sections design and documentation production.

• Rail industry workflows, tools and design requirements imple-mented .

CGS Infrastructure Suite“CGS Infrastructure Suite” integrates our software solutions for the de-sign of roads, railways, river engineering works and power lines, ena-bling users to design different infrastructure objects within one project, with a single software solution.

Ferrovia Advantagesor compound spiral/arc elements. With intelligent Best Fit algorithms you can effectively work on rail re-alignments or design alignments automatically based on surveyed points.

Unique cross section design concept

The “Design in one, draw in sever-al cross-sections” concept allows efficient processing and editing of cross-sections. Different levels of automation allow for the fast design of segments with similar cross-sections as well as handling the cross-sections where the con-ditions change frequently. Each cross-section can be treated indi-vidually with interactive drafting and editing commands.

Native CAD application

Ferrovia is fully integrated into the CAD environment. All the data are stored in one or more DWG files. The drawings can be modified with CAD commands at any design stage giving you complete flexibility in the design process.

Modular structure

Ferrovia has a modular structure. Modules can be installed separately or in any combination. In conjunc-tion with network licensing options (floating modules and floating packages) Ferrovia corporate instal-lation can be specifically tailored for each customer.

CAD platform choice

Ferrovia can be installed on top of AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Au-toCAD Map 3D or BricsCAD, where the functionality always remains the same. In the future additional CAD platforms will be supported. This CAD platform choice gives Ferrovia customers the possibility to optimize their “Cost of owner-ship” without sacrificing function abilities.

Intuitive workflow

The Ferrovia workflow consistently follows standard civil engineering railway design process used in Eu-rope, which intuitively leads the designer from the start to the suc-cessful finish of the project.

Easy to learn and use

Well-structured ribbons, menus and simple dialogues enable fast learning for the first time user while the toolbox and command line op-tions are provided for the conveni-ence of experienced users.

Handling of large data sets

Ferrovia is capable of handling large projects with very long alignments and thousands of cross-sections within seconds. You can easily work on alignment changes without the need to cut it into smaller pieces.

Support for local design standards

Ferrovia is available in several lan-guages and supports country spe-cific rail design standards, turn-out-catalogues, drawing layouts and symbols. Ferrovia customers are entitled to use any country-spe-cific version of the software in case of designing projects for foreign countries.

Team-work Support

Rail projects can be very efficient-ly divided among multiple team members who can then work si-multaneously. Projects can be split into layout & horizontal alignment drawings, longitudinal-section drawings and cross-section draw-ings.

Alignments design tools “par excellence”

Ferrovia contains powerful align-ment design and editing methods and tools. They allow you to design any combination of tangent/spiral

AxesAxes module comprehends tools for alignment and cross axes de-sign:

• Multiple create alignment meth-ods including best-fit (regression) method.

• Comprehensive cross axes design.

• Alignment and cross axes labe-ling.

• Drape alignment and sections to surface.

• Creation of profile and cross-sec-tions based on surveyed points in sections.

• Defining lines along the axis.

LayoutLayout module includes com-mands for processing input data and drafting in plan view:

• Manipulation of surveying points and connections.

• Insert and edit topographic and other symbols.

• Raster manager.

• Hatch/color embankments.

• 2D-3D conversions.

• Calculations and interpolations.

• Utilities for dimensioning and pro-cessing of plan view.

• Clearance check tools and analy-sis.

• Transfer points/lines from sections into plan view or 3D.

• Axes-related utilities.

Longitudinal sections (Profile)Longitudinal sections module is dedicated to processing profiles:

• Plot designed or existing rail track profile.

• Insert multiple surfaces.

• Design and edit vertical align-ment.

• Design and edit applied cant val-ues.

• Insert left and right ditch from cross-sections or 3D model.

• Customize tabular part of the pro-file.

• Split single longitudinal section into several frames for plotting on one or more sheets.

• Several tools for drawing and in-serting of geometric elements, dimension lines etc.

Cross-sectionsCross-sections module is dedi-cated to design and process of rail track sections:

• Plot designed or existing cross-sec-tions ground.

• Insert single rail track, parallel rail track or multiple rail tracks in a single cross section.

• Design comprehensive rail track cross-sections geometry.

• Insert predefined or user creat-ed blocks in single or multiple cross-sections.

• Editing, labeling, dimensioning of cross-sections.

• Define banks automatically or interactively, or insert from 3D model.

• Calculate takeoff quantities.

• Includes several detailed tools (di-mensioning, zoom sections, plot-ting…).

Data format Conver-sion InterfacesFerrovia includes conversion in-terfaces for bridging railway de-sign and maintenance solutions

with industry standard data formats (LandXML) or other spe-cialized rail track equipment or machinery data formats (Plasser & Theurer).

• Alignments and profiled data transfer to LandXML and vice ver-sa.

• Rail track horizontal and vertical realignment values transfer to Plasser & Theurer data format.

• Geometry and other project data export to ASCII and MS Excel data format.

CGS plus d.o.o.Brnčičeva ulica 13SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Phone: +386 1 530 11 00Fax: +386 1 530 11 32

Internet: www.cgsplus.come-mail: info@cgsplus.si

About CGS plusCGS plus is an established European developer in the field of transportation, infrastructure and AEC. Since 1990, CGS plus has been developing and pro-viding a family of professional high-end civil engineering applications as well as Civil 3D and Revit software tools for civil engineers and architects.

CGS plus software solutions are used every day by more than 3.000 customers in 30 countries all over the globe.

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