AutoRoads · Highway consultants

Let the terrain propose the route. Issue the TCS in one run.

Route search, alignment, typical cross-sections, cross-drainage and sheets in one seat — built around IRC hill-road practice, from the survey you already have.

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Send us a DTM or point cloud with a start and end point. We'll run it with you live.

Greenfield route search

Start from routes that can be built, not from a line you hope will work

Give it a start, an end and your design criteria. AutoRoads searches the whole terrain and returns genuinely different routes that respect your radius and grade limits, then lands the chosen one as a design alignment with nothing to re-digitise.

  • Hairpins laid out at IRC spacing, not left to chance
  • Holds the ruling grade, relaxing to limiting and exceptional only where it must
  • Finds development length on climbs too steep for a direct line
  • Proposes bridges and tunnels where they beat deep cut or high fill
  • Avoid zones and boundaries keep it out of what you can't touch

Greenfield is included in AutoRoads Spatial and AutoRoads Aero.

Needs a sharper screenshot: routes on a mapGreenfield alignment options report comparing routes

The options report: criteria, comparison and normative cost from the MoRTH reference or your own rates — a feasibility deliverable in itself.

Automatic TCS

The whole TCS schedule, drafted for your review

AutoRoads applies your template at every station against the real ground, measures both sides, and divides the corridor into numbered stretches. The same arrangement always gets the same TCS number. You review, adjust and issue.

  • Stretches and TCS numbers built from cut, fill and protection on each side
  • Stays stable: run it again and only what changed gets a new code
  • Culverts, bridges, VUPs, ROBs, viaducts, tunnels, walls and drains all set the stretches
  • Merge, relaxed merge, split, exclude and lock — your decisions are kept
  • Check any station against the ground, with the point cloud overlaid
Re-capture: this is the old TCS screenTCS Definition: station table with profile and cross-section preview

TCS Definition: every station, its template, depths, toes and class, with profile and section side by side.

Inside the TCS

It doesn't only sort the stretches. It finds the problems in them.

Each of these runs from the same analysis, so your schedule, walls, structures and cost all agree.

Auto ProtectionRetaining and breast walls proposed by stretch, with limits found to 1 m and short gaps joined. Walls you edited are kept.
Needs InterventionHeights beyond your wall maximum aren't quietly walled. They get their own code and a flag.
Cross-drainage suggestionsCulvert, minor bridge, major bridge or viaduct suggested from fill height and stream catchment. You accept each one.
IRC curve designSuperelevation and extra widening for every curve, carried into the sections.
Normative costAlignment cost from the MoRTH reference workbook: state, traffic, aggregate lead and hill terrain.
Issue controlChange the design after issue and the TCS tells you it's out of date, and what changed.
Alignment design

Plan and profile that can't drift apart

Move an IP and the grades, curve warnings and corridor toes follow. Design standards change by chainage, so one alignment can pass through several terrain classes and design speeds.

  • Spirals, compound and reverse curves; vertical curves by K-value
  • Per-curve compliance warnings as you edit
  • Toes and footprint recalculated as the design changes
AutoRoads plan and profile design with a hairpin alignment
Cross-drainage

Every crossing backed by checkable hydraulics

Delineate the catchment on the same DTM and run the IRC chain: discharge, waterway, afflux, scour and foundation level. You get an editable workbook per structure, with live formulas.

  • Dickens, Ryve's, Inglis, Rational and area-velocity methods
  • Lacey scour and foundation levels per IRC:78
  • Rivers export to HEC-RAS, ISIS and MIKE
Catchments and bridge hydraulic inputs on a hill-road project
Sheets

Drawings your client can issue

The same model produces plan and profile sheets with view frames, a band designer and title blocks, plus cross-section sheets at any interval. Change the design and regenerate.

  • TCS, walls and toes drawn onto the plan automatically
  • Multi-sheet plan and profile with configurable bands
  • Cross-sections with layers, areas and quantities
Plan and profile sheet with curve data and bands
From the same template library

Sections the way hill roads are actually built

Deep cut section with benches
Deep cut with benches
Hill road section in partial cut and fill with walls
Partial cut and fill, retaining and breast walls
Section with gabion breast wall and retaining wall
Gabion breast wall and retaining wall
Viaduct section with cantilever retaining walls
Viaduct with cantilever retaining walls
Pavement layer build-up with areas
Pavement layers with carriageway areas
Deliverables

What you hand over

Route options reportCriteria, comparison and indicative cost
TCS scheduleFrom, to, length and TCS code, with transitions
Protection scheduleWall types, sides, lengths and heights
Plan & profile sheetsWith curve data and bands — DWG and PDF
Cross-sectionsSheets at any interval, with areas and volumes
Hydraulic design reportEditable XLSX, one sheet per structure
Recommended setup

Choose by how your survey arrives

Survey data, existing routes

AutoRoads

Price on request

Alignment, TCS, structures, hydraulics and sheets. No point clouds or Greenfield.

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LiDAR corridors, new routes

AutoRoads Spatial

Price on request

Everything in AutoRoads, plus Greenfield route search and the full point-cloud platform.

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Your own drone surveys too

AutoRoads Aero

Price on request

Everything in AutoRoads Spatial, plus drone photogrammetry in the same seat.

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Questions highway teams ask

Before you start

Which standards does it follow?

A design-standard library covering IRC hill-road standards (IRC:SP:48, IRC:52, IRC:73), AASHTO and comparable codes. Terrain class and design speed can change by chainage.

Is the route search a final design?

No. It gives you feasible, comparable options and a starting alignment. Your engineers review and finish the design. Cost is normative, for comparing options, not a project estimate.

Does the TCS replace the engineer?

It does the analysis and first schedule. Walls and structures are proposals; cross-drainage is only ever suggested until you accept it, and your edits are kept.

Can we try it on our own project?

Yes. Send us a DTM or point cloud with a start and end point, and we'll walk through it with you on a demo.

See it run on your corridor

Send a start point, an end point and your survey. We'll show you the routes and the TCS live.

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