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 project, creating a construction schedule, and monitoring the progress of the project.A method for cutting mass haul costs. World Highways, January/February 2004.Dealing with data. 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. World Highways Software Supplement, December 2007. such as the E18 Muurla-Lohja motorway in Finland and the E4 road in Hudiksvall, Sweden.
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. World Highways, November/December 2009 GIS & Software.Finnish expertise . 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
References
External links
Topcon blog on earthworks project management