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North Vancouver-based Softree Technical Systems today released RoadEng Version 12, used in more than 75 countries to locate and design resource and rural roads, from forest and mine roads to county roads and highways. The headline feature, Path Explorer AI, can now find optimized road networks, dramatically reducing earthworks and design time.

Softree Technical Systems released RoadEng Version 12 today, with new tools for forest road design. Path Explorer AI, which searches the terrain for the best location for a new forest road, can now work around the roads, landings and crossings engineers already know. Version 12 also adds hydrology tools for road drainage and culvert design, plus Digital Pre-Planting, a new tool for planning plantation rows.

Engineers planning wind farms can now generate a complete access road network, connecting every turbine while accounting for terrain, grades and site constraints, in a single run. Softree Technical Systems released the capability, Path Explorer AI Road Networks, today as part of RoadEng Version 12.

Planning access roads for a wind farm project means weighing terrain, cost, environmental, and right-of-way constraints across dozens (or even hundreds) of turbine sites. Path Explorer AI Networks, RoadEng's newest AI feature, determines optimized road network locations automatically — cutting earthwork costs and time spent in preliminary design.

In this session, we demonstrated how RoadEng and Softree Optimal can be used to design and optimize a wind farm road network.