DynaRoad is a
project management software for
heavy civil engineering projects.
[Mike Woof]
''Get smart''
World Highways, June 2009. It is used for
planning the mass hauls of an
earthworks
Earthworks may refer to:
Construction
*Earthworks (archaeology), human-made constructions that modify the land contour
* Earthworks (engineering), civil engineering works created by moving or processing quantities of soil
*Earthworks (military), m ...
project, creating a construction
schedule
A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are i ...
, and monitoring the progress of the project.
[''A method for cutting mass haul costs''](_blank)
World Highways, January/February 2004.[''Dealing with data''](_blank)
World Highways, July 2010.
The program's development started in 1999, when
Finnish earthworks contractors, the Construction Economics Lab of
Helsinki University of Technology and the DynaRoad company started developing a new project management and
earthmoving software.
[. World Highways Software Supplement, October 2006.] The program has been used in road projects between 3 and 60 km in length,
[''Science - and an art''](_blank)
World Highways Software Supplement, December 2007. such as the
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Lohja motorway
in
Finland and the
E4 road
in
Hudiksvall,
Sweden
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.
Features
The software has a Windows graphical user interface and it includes views such as the
Gantt chart, resource graph, mass haul diagram, map view,
time distance chart and text reports.
[
] The time-location method has strengths compared to Gantt charts and traditional scheduling.
The map view indicates live tasks at any moment using different colors.
[''Software in brief''](_blank)
World Highways, November/December 2009 GIS & Software.[''Finnish expertise''](_blank)
. Software for Road Infrastructure, Supplement to World Highways & ITS International, December 2011. For
cut and fill operations, a haul plan based on quantities, bulking factors, possible haul routes and production rates can be calculated automatically.
Competition
LinearPlus and TILOS are examples of other software for
linear scheduling.
Scetauroute Masster is a software used in
France for mass haul optimization.
[
]
Microsoft Project and
Primavera are popular project management software in the construction industry.
See also
*
Comparison of project management software
*
Civil engineering software
References
External links
{{Official website, http://www.dynaroad.com/
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Windows-only proprietary software
Project management softwareTopcon blog on earthworks project management