Article from issue CAD & GIS for roads. — 2015. — No.2(5)

The review of foreign CAD systems for road design

DOI: 10.17273/CADGIS.2015.2.11

  • I.V. Krivykh, head of section of IndorSoft LLC (Tomsk, Russia)
  • N.S. Mirza, Ph.D., head of section of IndorSoft LLC (Tomsk, Russia)

The article provides a review of some foreign CAD systems for road design and discusses the basic features of these systems. The review emphasizes some key features of the CAD systems, as well as development trends of CAD systems for road design.

Keywords

BIM, building information modeling, information modeling, road information modeling, CAD, computer-aided design, computer-aided road design, road design, highway engineering, roads, highways, road infrastructure

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