
Transitioning a Roadway
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Transitioning a Roadway
To transition a road, you can create plan and profile transition regions
on your finished roadway design. For example, if your highway design
includes a passing lane on a hill, you can add the additional lane to
the plan view of the roadway, define the edge of pavement as a
transition alignment, and then update the cross sections using the
Edit Design Control command.
You can also design vertical alignments in the profile view that
represent vertical transitions, su/jointfilesconvert/425361/bgrade surfaces, or ditch elevations,
and then you can attach these vertical alignments to the cross
sections, updating them with the new elevations.
Key Concepts
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In order to create transition regions, you need to define transition
control points on the template using the Edit Template command.
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You can create horizontal and vertical transition alignments to
attach to the cross sections.
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You can use commands in the Cross Sections
➤
Ditch/Transition
menu to define plan and profile transition alignments. However,
you can also use commands in the Alignments and Profiles menus
to define and edit these transition alignments.
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If you make changes to the transition alignments using the
View/Edit Sections command or the Edit Design Control command,
then you can use the Cross Sections
➤
Ditch/Transition
➤
Import
commands to import these transition alignments back into the
plan or profile views.
To transition a roadway
Steps
Use
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1 Draw and define the finished ground template.
For more information, see “Creating Finished
Ground Cross Sections” in this chapter.
Overview of Defining
Templates
2 From the Cross Sections menu, choose
Templates
➤
Edit Template to place transition
points on the template.
Define the Transition
Regions on a Template
NOTE
The transition control locations are saved
with the template and can be used from
one project to the next.
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