Chapter 11. Transportation - Alignments

This chapter guides you through the process of creating alignments for transportation design projects. Unlike alignments for site design and subdivision projects, alignments for transportation projects are often created using the layout tools available on the Alignment Layout Tools toolbar. Transportation alignments are usually more complicated and include spiral and complex curve geometry. Also, design speeds and design criteria are applied to ensure that curve geometry meets the minimum standards requirements, and to apply super elevation to the alignment.

In the Designing Criteria-Based Alignments lesson, you create an alignment object using tools on the Alignment Layout Tools toolbar, and you modify the ...

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