Features & Specifications

Intended for:	Designing roads of all categories
First release:	1993
Current version:	Plateia 2010
Working platform:	AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD  (ver. 2007 or newer)
Supported languages:	German, English, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Macedonian, Albanian
Currently used in:	Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Albania

Example of Layout	Layout Layout module is used for preparation of surveying plans or templates for the subsequent road designing or any other civil engineering tasks. Plans made by the Layout are intelligent drawings (points with attributes, links to attributes, etc.) where you can store many data that you use during the designing or as a basis for establishing of a GIS system. Data related to connections between points have a similar organization. Besides defined connection types (many line types from topographic line symbol list), you can simply define your own connection type with appropriate attributes. If this connection is represented by a sewer pipe, you can define pipe attributes such as initial / final manhole, pipe diameter and so forth. Layout plans can be worked out either in 2D or 3D way. Plateia incorporates improved tools for 2D point and connections data conversion into 3D drawing being a basis for a digital terrain model calculation.
Example of Axes	Axes The Axes module is used for a horizontal definition of a road corridor. Basis for design is provided in a form of surveying plan made by the Layout module. Existing scanned drawings and air or satellite images can also be used. You can work on any number of axes within the project or drawing and to each of them you can define a road category. During the design Plateia checks critical technical parameters of the individual axis elements and gives you a constant feedback.
Example of Longitudinal Sections	Longitudinal sections In the longitudinal sections module you can define level-lines on the basis of selected tangents. First you define a tangent position using interactive functions and then you calculate required roundings. Both tangents and level-lines can be modified at any time later for automatic output of the whole longitudinal section plan. Plateia calculates needed cross-slopes according to the selected roadway design standard. You can then edit them in a table form for each lane independently. Quick mass calculation provides continuous checking and optimization of the road level-line. The Stop sight distance command draws a diagram of the sight distances according to the vertical alignment. For the purposes of drainage many commands devoted for drainage parameters definition have been incorporated in the Plateia program.
Example of Cross Sections	Cross-sections Plateia offers interactive or automatic cross-sections processing and area and volume calculation. You can process any number of axes or road objects in an individual cross-section as a program handles them as individual entities. Cross-sections can be drawn in a different horizontal and vertical scale which is crucial when processing projects that involve substantial earthworks. Planimetry and volume calculation is an important command group by which you can manually or automatically calculate cuts, fills, asphalt, concrete, ditch and drainage areas or humus and shotcreting (shooting) lengths or similar. You can define the planimetry quantities by yourself while many of them are already available. Cross-section module offers many other commands. For example, dimensioning of the slopes, lengths and elevations, intersection point definition of cuts and fills, data preparation for a dimensioned projection in the layout and commands for quick zooming.
Dynamic Horizontal Turning Curves   Dynamic Vertical Turning Curves	Dynamic Turning Curves Plateia offers separated commands for vehicle definitions, editing and driving simulation. The Horizontal dynamic turning curves command simulates selected vehicle movements along the given trajectory or optionally, you can manually guide the vehicle using the mouse pointer and direction buttons. Both ways, you are in the position to calculate the vehicle movement limits and eventually a transportability of the crossroad, narrow street or turning. The Vertical dynamic turning curves command offers similar possibilities with a difference that you can check the vehicle movements in the elevation sense. This function can be very useful for checking the transportability of slopes, ramps, garage drive-ins, parking houses and alike.
Layout equiped with trafic signs; Symbol manager     Example of Roundabouts	Traffic This module contains commands for outfitting the plans with floor and vertical signalization and commands for designing crossroads (normal and roundabout). Similarly to other modules, plans can be processed in any scale.