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Superelevating a Roadway
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To design slopes for a roadway
Steps
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1 Create finished ground cross sections for
the roadway.
For more information, see “Creating Finished
Ground Cross Sections” in this chapter.
2 If you want to use stepped, surface, or depth
control slopes, then you must define the slope
tables.
Select either Depth Slopes, Stepped Slopes, or
Surface Slopes from the Cross Sections ➤ Design
Control menu.
Change the Depth Slope
Settings
Change the Stepped
Slope Settings
Change the Surface
Slope Settings
3 From the Cross Sections menu, choose Design
Control ➤ Edit Design Control and then click
Slopes to edit the cross section slope control.
In this step, you select which type of slope you
want to apply in cut and fill situations. When you
exit the Slope Control dialog box, the cross sections
are processed and updated with the new slope
information.
Specify the Design
Control Values for
Sideslopes
4 You can edit the slopes for individual cross sections,
if needed, by selecting Cross
Sections ➤ View/Edit Sections.
Change the Slope
Control for One Section
Superelevating a Roadway
You can superelevate a roadway by defining superelevation control
points to the roadway template, selecting a superelevation method,
and then processing the cross sections.