Bentley Systems, a leading company dedicated to providing software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, has launched its new rail design and maintenance application - Rail Track Selectseries 4 - that leverages the same civil design modelling technology underpinning OpenRoads applications.

The new product helps advance rail design, construction, and operations through the use of industry-leading civil design modelling innovations including immersive modelling, design intent capture and persistence, hypermodelling, information mobility across engineering disciplines and project phases, and construction-driven engineering, said a statement from Bentley Systems.

The key capabilities of the application include:
• Ability to incorporate data from almost any source and link with any design object;
• Vigorous rail geometry for preliminary, detailed, and maintenance design;
• Extensive functionality for yard layout with turnout and switch placement and regression and slew analysis for maintenance design;
• Plan, profile, and cross-section workflows with 3D modelling to accelerate design tasks
• Parametric design features that incorporate rules, relationships, and constraints into modelling workflows;
• Robust subsurface utility design and analysis for hydraulic and hydrology work;
• Constraint-driven templates;
• Context sensitive, intuitive interface; and
• Dynamic modeller for on-the-fly visualisation.

The new version of Bentley Rail Track also seamlessly integrates with Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering to provide automated 3D modelling of subsurface utilities.

"Bentley's Rail-Track functionality provided a vast array of enhanced design tools that enabled Rhomberg Rail's track designers the capability and freedom to effectively produce extensive, complex track solutions in an efficient and timely manner, beneficial to the Adelaide railway upgrade project," remarked Dylan Tate, permanent way design engineer, Rhomberg Rail.

The software also integrates with StormCAD, CivilStorm, SewerCAD, and SewerGems to enable efficient hydraulic and hydrology design in rail projects. Combining these innovative capabilities with the already robust rail geometry of Bentley Rail Track results in ideal software for rail professionals.-TradeArabia News Service