DynaRoad is a

project management software Project management software are computer programs that help plan, organize, and manage resources. Depending on the sophistication of the software, it can manage Software development effort estimation, estimation and planning, Schedule (workplace) ...

for heavy civil engineering projects.Mike Woof
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World Highways, June 2009. It is used for planning the mass hauls of an earthworks project, creating a construction

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, 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

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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-

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motorway in

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and the E4 road in

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Features

The software has a Windows graphical user interface and it includes views such as the

Gantt chart A Gantt chart is a bar chart that illustrates a schedule (project management), project schedule. It was designed and popularized by Henry Gantt around the years 1910–1915. Modern Gantt charts also show the Dependency (project management), depe ...

, 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 In earthmoving, cut and fill is the process of constructing a railway, road or canal whereby the amount of material from cuts roughly matches the amount of fill needed to make nearby embankments to minimize the amount of construction labor. ...

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

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for mass haul optimization.

Microsoft Project Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyz ...

and Primavera are popular project management software in the construction industry.

References

External links

{{Official website, http://www.dynaroad.com/ Business software for Windows Windows-only proprietary software Project management software
Topcon blog on earthworks project management

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Competition

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