ROW component?

[InfraChic]

What's the chances we can get a component feature called ROW that can vary from the Centerline to be XX distance left or right of centerline and from Station XX.XX to Station x+xxx.xx?  Reprsented by a coverage area maybe or just bold and thick linework showing the actual ROW line from centerline.  Granted it's not a surveyed Row but it can be a representative ROW line to show what issues we may run into during construction of a Road or subdivision?

Heidi

[nzeeben]

Would this be connected to the road or a separate item? 

[C3D_TomR]

I would envision it being connected to an alignment so that as the road centerline moves so does the proposed ROW.

[InfraChic]

Usually a Right of Way is connected to a Road and more specifically to a centerline but seeing we don't have Centerlines in Infraworks than I'd suggest a component part. But there are instances where you want to connect it to a utility like a storm pipeline or a sanitary sewer pipeline.  In those cases you would have a "utility corridor" where there is not road, just a huge ROW area like 50-80 feet wide where all the utilities are placed and that would be connected to the center of the pipe.

That's probably the case 20% of the time. the other 80% you would attach the component to the Inner Most lane, Inside edge, or Centerline of the road lane component. 

Heidi Boutwell

[C3D_TomR]

For that matter, you could connect it to any alignment/centerline, even one not visible in the current proposal. For that reason I would want the ROW component visibility separate from the source centerline.

[gchakri]

In most transportation (rail included) and existing road cases ROW is a fixed swath around the corridor. So should it move with road centerline? I understand utility corridors (particualrly if it is a new dev) where it could be near parallell offset(?).

[scunningham]

Would you be able to share some examples of the kinds of issues that are revealed by seeing the ROW on the design?  

[InfraChic]

I'm not sure why you need me to elaborate on why we need ROW. But just for giggles I'll tell you.  So ROW let's us know when we are designing over our limits. Maybe there's a ROW edge that goes through a bank of trees that must be removed or is there some structure that a person built that is over the right of way, it happens all the time.  So that's why you need the ROW to see what is in the area that you are designing really clearly.  By not providing a line showing the limits of ROW then I have no clue how much of the forest or hill I'm truly taking. Maybe I'm grading too far out, and over the ROW, that's not allowed.  Or maybe there's an encroaching pond or someone built a shed that is in the ROW that shouldn't be there.  That's just a few examples, there are many reasons why we need it. Without it though, you can easily over design, or maybe miss your design parameters completly.  You never know.

Heidi B.

[scunningham]

Capabilities for modeling legal boundaries (including rights of way) was released in 2017.2 and enhanced in 2017.3.