Railway corridor design and optimization

Infraspace can support roads, railways, networks of access roads, power transmission lines and industrial site location studies.

The platform is strongest when several alternatives must be considered and terrain, land take, earthworks, or environmental impact matter.

• Roads and highways
• Railways
• Power transmission lines
• Pipelines
• Wind farm access roads
• Industrial site location studies

Corridor optimization is the process of finding the most suitable route or corridor for infrastructure such as roads, railways, pipelines, or power lines.

It considers terrain, geometry, environmental constraints, land use, cost, CO2, and constructability.

Generative design is a method where algorithms automatically generate infrastructure alternatives based on defined objectives and constraints.

In infrastructure planning, this can include geometric rules, terrain, environmental restrictions, cost targets, land-use requirements, and CO2 objectives.

AI-assisted optioneering is the process of using AI and geospatial analysis to generate, evaluate, and compare many infrastructure alternatives.

It allows planners to move beyond a few manually created concepts and explore a wider solution space earlier in the project.

All three support early infrastructure planning, but with different emphasis. Autodesk InfraWorks is a desktop tool for conceptual design and visualization in rich 3D context models. Trimble Quantm is desktop alignment-planning software focused on routing of road and rail corridors. Infraspace is a cloud-based platform with AI-assisted generative design that rapidly generates, optimizes and compares alternatives with KPIs and 3D visualizations — based on construction cost, earthworks, land use, and environmental impact for different infrastructure types.

Infraspace differentiates itself in three key ways:

• Unique AI technology — The L.IN.E.A engine explores thousands of corridor alternatives against terrain, constraints, and project objectives in minutes—making you confident in moving forward with your choices.
• Accessible web-based platform — Project data, 3D models, and KPI dashboards live in the browser so planners, engineers, and stakeholders can collaborate without everyone using specialist desktop software.
• Multi-objective optimization — Create and optimize alternatives based on multiple objectives—such as minimizing construction cost and CO₂, reducing earthworks and mass imbalance, and lowering environmental impact at the same time.

Infraspace can calculate KPIs such as construction cost, CO2, earthworks volumes, mass balance, area usage, land take, viewshed, environmental metrics, affected buildings, biodiversity considerations, and required structures such as bridges and tunnels.

Infraspace is primarily intended for early-stage planning, feasibility analysis, corridor studies, concept development, and optioneering.

It is not positioned as a replacement for detailed engineering design tools used later in the project lifecycle, Autodesk Civil 3D or Trimble Quadri, but rather designed to integrate with these tools and provide a more efficient workflows.