Simulate Standard & Multi-Part Vehicles Maneuvers

Ensure your design works – manually ‘drive’ forward or reverse for a standard or manufactured vehicle of your choice including multi-part vehicles such as lorries and trailers, while controlling the speed, super elevation, lateral friction, and turn radius. Create realistic reverse maneuvers using the push from prime mover method or the classic pull method.

Edit Simulation Paths

Assess the turning space and swept path, required for vehicles to maneuver safely and efficiently, and easily make small adjustments by dragging the nodes to control different parameters of the path no matter if they are passenger vehicles, buses, or articulated lorries.

Intellipath

Let AutoTURN do the heavy lifting – automatically solve possible drive paths trajectories based on the available space and the desired speed.

Simulate Bicycle Movements

Use over 10 different cycle types from design guidelines worldwide (e.g. bikes with trailers, recumbent cycles, scooters) to simulate movements and ensure on-street and off-street design projects safely accommodate the turning space required.

Check Sight Distance

Ensure drivers have enough time to notice and react to potential conflicts on the road, with sightline checks, stopping sight distance, interval distances, and object height analysis. Our 2D geometry (vertical profiles) and 3D alignments analyses can help identify potential safety hazards i.e. blind spots, that may be compromised by obstructed sightlines at junction terrain obstructions, and others alike.

Analyse Vertical Profile

View a vehicle’s clearance in a vertical profile for a simple driveway or ramp. Detect conflict or clearance issues between the vehicle body and terrain, or the vehicle roofline and overhead obstacles.

Reverse engineer the maximum uphill and downhill slopes and grade-break limits based on the ground clearances of selected design vehicles.

Analyse Clearances & Envelopes in 3D

Highlight potential conflicts between vehicles and terrain or overhead obstructions. Instantly see a 3D swept path envelope, which models the vehicle’s underside and roofline, while considering the yaw, pitch and roll limits as the vehicle interacts with the terrain. Detect conflicts that might not be apparent with assessing clearance on a vertical profile.

Check Speed Profiles

Analyse the vehicle’s speed based on its centerline trajectory or path. The analysis considers the acceleration, deceleration, and lateral friction along a simulated path.

Libraries

With over 1300 manufacturer-specific and over 1000 standard vehicles, quickly search by library name and apply filters to refine results or set custom vehicle groups that match your country or local area design guidelines. Libraries are updated regularly to comply with guidelines for different countries, including Canada, United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil and Austria.

Create Custom Vehicles

Can’t find the vehicle you need? Easily create custom vehicles by modifying a copy of an existing vehicle or by specifying each component and its characteristic individually, change dimensions, axle configurations, steering angle, and the vehicles’ outlines, including filleted or chamfered corners.

Oversized Transport

In 2D & 3D designs, evaluate the turning space and swept path of vehicles carrying wide or heavy loads to check for lateral clearance from elements like structures, lighting columns, and utilities.

Steering Linkages

Define steering linkage between steering axle groups and vary wheels per axle to match specifications.

Accurately model electronically steered systems such as lorries carrying wind turbines sections, and vehicles transporting transformers, or use the manual steering mode, to control the steering of rear steerable axles to replicate remotely controlled steering systems.

Generate Turning Report

Produce detailed reports so that you can learn more about your simulation and identify key points so peers or stakeholders can conduct reviews. Configure the display of your simulations to match your client’s requirements or define the standards of the display by setting separate elements on specified layers.

Produce Speed Profiles

Create a speed profile report that assesses vehicle speeds, considering acceleration, deceleration, and lateral friction along a simulated path.

Generate a Turning Template

Generate a turning template displaying the key angles of the design vehicle used for the analysis to document your work.

Inspect Simulation

Review manually produced simulations to ensure they are realistic and meet design criteria. Check for unrealistic and abrupt steering and view a vehicle’s proximity to other vehicles and objects.

Record and Play Animation

Record vehicle maneuvers and simulation videos to share with stakeholders. Control simulation playback and watch from different perspectives using the preset cameras.