I first started modeling roadway work in 1992 supporting InRoads at Intergraph Corporation.
Enamored with the power of InRoads, I took a job with HNTB from 1993 to 1995 specifically to use InRoads in production. Worked on rural highways and urban highway interchanges.
After HNTB, most of my InRoads experience was teaching people to use it, including developing training manuals independently and with Bentley.
Actual Road Design Work since moving to training/consulting/hotshotting include:
- California Foothill Transportation Corridor South Modeling multiple alignments with complex side slope treatments through high-relief terrain: great fun!
- CalTrans I-15 and I-5 highway, ramp and interchange modeling. CalTrans was CAiCE-based but I was able to augment their section models with 3D interchange models for complicated engineering issues and tasks that CAiCE was not suited for (such as bridge abutment modeling; any 3D detail, really).
- Kimley Horn - InRoads migration, primarily, and "weird projects" (I-805 HOV widening (advanced templates), I-5 Genesee (Retaining Wall modeling); I-215 Van Buren Boulevard restricted airspace clearance modeling, etc.)
Roadway-specific Training, Training Development and Consulting include:
- writing and training Exploring InRoads - an "all-audience" manual designed to understand and use InRoads data
- writing and training Building InRoads - training for geometry and corridor creation - the "essentials for creators"
- Oklahoma DOT - MicroStation & InRoads Migration (all survey and highway, no drainage)
- Writing Bentley's first Advanced InRoads training manual
- Writing Bentley's first and subsequent OpenRoads Technology training for Roadway and Site (until I moved to focus on OpenRoads Drainage)