The Trimble® Quantm Alignment Planning system allows planners and engineers to generate millions of complex 3D corridors and alignments. The results are optimized to select the best routes based on your requirements - cost, speed, environmental, heritage, urban constraints and design standards - all of which you control. Quantm doesn't suggest the best route - it automatically calculates all the information to allow you to make the best decision.
The Quantm software is available in 3 different formats - Quantm Desktop, Quantm Desktop Premium and Quantm Service
- Optimize road alignments
- Manual entry of alignments or import from CAD
- Automatic generation of horizontal geometry to design standard
- Automatic generation of vertical geometry
- Automatic placement of structures (bridges, culverts, retaining walls, tunnels)
- Editing of alignments with real time updates of cost impacts
- Import or define DTM, Geology layers, Structure types and unit costs,
- Imagery, Engineering design standards, Social and environmental constraints (import from GIS or define manually), GIS data including existing roads, railways, towns, and streams
- Output images with alignment alternatives for public review
- Produce balanced earthwork quantities with costs by material
- Show costs for alignments in Land XML, .DXF, and .PRO files ready for detailed design
- Vertical Optimization
- Local processing on user PC
MILLIONS OF CHOICES, AND THE BEST ADVICE POSSIBLE
Quantm Desktop is a PC-based application that performs vertical optimization only. It is intended for engineers and contractors to refine the vertical geometry of alignments that lie within a defined corridor with final or fixed horizontal geometry. Quantm Desktop optimizes the vertical geometry to minimize costs based on barriers to construction and ‘Mass Haul'. Quantm Desktop is available for road projects of up to 20km in length.
Quantm Desktop Premium is a PC-based application for project owners, planners, engineers, GIS professionals and contractors. Quantm Desktop Premium can be applied at every step of the planning process from initial concept, through feasibility to value engineering. When compared to results using traditional planning methods, Quantm Desktop Premium can provide 5 -15% reduction in project planning time and cost for road projects.
The software performs corridor identification, and full horizontal and vertical alignment optimization, considering environmental, social, geological, engineering, and construction constraints to provide and optimal alignment for detailed design. Quantm Desktop Premium is available for road project study areas up to 20km x 20km.
Quantm Desktop Premiums extra functionality includes horizontal and vertical alignment optimization, un-seeded - free to roam corridor search, quick-seed - from a manually created alignment, total refinements - refinement of an existing alignment, re-alignments and full alternatives explored and summarized for community input.
Quantm Service is offered on a project by project basis for clients with projects longer than 20km. The Quantm Service provides for a collaborative environment with 5 project licenses of the powerful Quantm Integrator software for data input and review. Quantm Service uses a thin client/server architecture with the optimization processing performed at one of Trimble's Planning Solutions worldwide data centres.
The Quantm Service is supported by a team of Transportation Engineers, Planners and Surveyors who specialize in alignment optimization. The Quantm Service team collaborates with each project's planning and engineering teams to ensure maximum benefit from the system. The Quantm Service is offered for concept studies, corridor investigations, environmental impact studies and alternative alignment selection.
All the Quantm product and service configurations generate outputs to support public presentations. The final approved alignment can be easily exported using industry standard formats, such as Land XML, for detailed design.
Quantm Services’ extra functionality includes optimizing railway alignments and processing using Trimble's data processing centres.