Quantm is a software package, marketed as Trimble Quantm, that is used to design road alignments and railway alignments.Official website of Trimble Alignment Planning Solutions
/ref> The program performs an otherwise tedious and laborious task where an immense amount of data are involved and choices have to be made between a considerable number of options. The Quantm software takes the data and constraints into account and generates a prioritised list of optimised alignments that the user can choose between. Quantm was originally developed by the Australian research organisation

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research. CSIRO works with leading organisations around the world. From its headquarters in Canberra, CSIRO ...

. The software was bought in 2006 by

Trimble Navigation Trimble Inc. is an American software, hardware, and services technology company. Trimble supports global industries in building & construction, agriculture, geospatial, natural resources and utilities, governments, transportation and others. Trim ...

(now Trimble, Inc.) and further developed at Trimble Alignment Planning Solutions in

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