CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

3 April 2007

Implementation Investments

RITES Wins BE Award

RITES Ltd . has won a BE Award for its detailed engineering study for the Kashmir Railway project in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The award category was "Civil: Rail Design."

The $2.5 billion Kashmir Railway project will connect the state of Jammu and Kashmir with the Indian Railway and provide an important link to the rest of India. Among the project route's many design and construction challenges is a 142-kilometer stretch of rugged, mountainous terrain that will require the construction of 118 bridges and 65 tunnels.

By helping RITES develop alternative routes, establish their feasibility, and optimize them, Bentley MXRAIL and its 3D visualizations have saved millions of dollars in construction costs as well as substantial time. For example, on one 12-kilometer section of railway, use of Bentley MXRAIL saved almost $13 million and shortened the construction time by six months.

Said RITES Chief Project Manager, Track and Survey, A. Jha, "Our use of Bentley MXRAIL enabled an integrated approach to this complex project, with a single database seamlessly managing various stages of project development. It facilitated collaborative work across disciplines, including track design, geology, and geo-technology as well as bridge and tunnel designs, and helped us quickly develop and examine alternative proposals before recommending the best alternative for adoption. In one instance, the software was able to triangulate a model containing more than eight million points and more than 13.5 million triangles in one go."

The design process started with digitization of topography and elevation details from available maps. A tentative alignment was designed with alternatives to freeze the corridor for detailed study. Aerial photography, followed by photogrammetric study, was conducted for the frozen corridor, and the data generated from this process was used for the detailed design of alignment.

For more information on RITES' winning project and all of the other BE Award projects, visit http://www.be.org/awards . For more information on the Bentley products used in this project, visit http://www.bentley.com/civil .

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