Causeway Professional Design Suite

PDS allows fully dynamic design of any type of route alignment. Designs and documentation to clear UK standards can be generated out of the box. There is no need to configure a whole range of settings before you are able to produce the information for submitting and setting out what your clients need and expect.

Carriageways (including freeform channels), junctions and turning areas are generated with ease, crossfalls and construction added and any of the design dynamically edited at any stage in the process. Any changes are automatically reflected in all associated features and output such as sections, annotation, and external reports.

This is an extension to standard alignments for the design of major routes, with automatic and user-controlled transition curve, super-elevation application, and complex junction and roundabout designs. We also have tools to aid users designing by the Stockdale rolling crown method.

Drive is the latest innovation in easy to use vehicle path analysis. Standard libraries are provided for groups of vehicles, including DB32, FTA 1983/1998, ICE, London Fire Brigade, TfL, and TRRL SR662. Users can edit the standard vehicles and add to the libraries via a wizard interface. The paths are generated by driving the vehicle with straight-ahead, maximum left / right predictor polygons displayed to aid the user.

Storm and foul drainage networks are laid out, manipulated and edited with tools that will automatically sense manhole locations and apply depth rules appropriately. Catchment areas can be identified with multiple areas and different permeability factors applied, loaded and recorded for reference purposes. Drainage sections, combined road / drainage sections, manhole schedules and powerful user controllable annotation styles are all included.

The layout completed in PDS is exported to Causeway Flow for hydraulic analysis of the network. A dynamic link is established and any changes made in Flow will automatically be highlighted in PDS, giving the user the opportunity to accept the changes or investigate further. Importantly, all aspects of the Flow design are carried back to PDS, including flow controls and storage devises, which are essential for a complete design and BIM output. 3D networks are generated automatically in PDS from the hydraulic design. Support for MicroDrainage integration is also included.

Flow makes drainage design an intuitive process, from determining storm water storage requirements to calculating the discharge rates and volumes. Flow has the tools to design foul and storm water drainage networks, size up storage structures and incorporate SuDS features, then simultaneously analyse drainage submissions over a range of storm durations and return periods with climate change. 

This module addresses the growing need for our customers to model all underground utilities, not just drainage. The services module includes specific tools to aid the user model under and round building drainage, bridging the gap between the structure and surrounding infrastructure.

Flexible, powerful and easy to use CAD independent (read and write DWG) software for the design and preparation of road markings in accordance with TSRGD using fully compliant fonts and symbols and line types. In-place editing provides great productivity gains and flexibility, and the dynamic nature of the markings ensures that any associated annotation reflects any changes made. Outputs are in drawing and BIM formats.

Flexible, powerful and easy to use CAD independent (read and write DWG) software for the design and preparation of traffic signs in accordance with TSRGD using fully compliant fonts and symbols. Post and foundation design is all part of the package and can be output in drawing and BIM formats.

Standardised wide-area network licencing offering our customers maximum flexibility and optimum licence utilisation for all of the functionalities of PDS Bundles. Licencing is controlled via a cloud-based licence manager hosted by Causeway, allowing access by users from any location with an internet connection. Licence borrowing is a feature that allows a licence to be borrowed from the network to a local PC for a given period of time, after which it is automatically reverted to the network pool.

BIM compliance demands much more than 3D model output. All packages in the PDS Enterprise Bundle contribute to the BIM workflow with user controllable attribute data attached when generating outputs for BIM collaboration.