TrackPlanner

D4R Horizon Track Planner (TP) is an OS-independent software tool that allows the user to draw, equip and visualize railway track plans. TP thus simplifies the railway infrastructure planning process by automating the tedious and time-consuming operations of producing consistent railway drawings and objects attributes.

With just a few clicks, it is possible to:

·        Import a blueprint of an existing track-plan to be visualized as a background in the graphical board

·        design a consistent, error-free, schematic track plan. Thanks to smart topological constraints and automatic object connections, design errors are effectively minimized during the project modelling and review phases.

·        manage very large railway networks, with a smart management of stations and lines and a

schematic plan navigator

·        equip the track plan with the all the railway objects, both default or custom designed

·        easily set, visualize and check all the objects properties

·        export the track plan and all its properties in different formats (e.g. railML®, PDF, CSV, etc.)

·        configure the mapping between the railway objects’s relays (I/Os) and the cabinets they ae physically connected to, with a simple drag-drop mechanism

·        define and visualize different kinds of paths (e.g. itineraries, routing routes), together with their overlap, flanks and additional properties, thus allowing an automatic management of the Table of Controls

·        expand the core functionalities of the Track-Planner with a specific SDK that allows the user to create and customize its own plugin that will be loaded and executed within the TP (e.g. a plugin to export a signalling application configuration file)

TP main strengths are:

•   User-friendly (designed having in mind the activities performed by Railway Application Engineers, Railway Dispatchers and Operators and Signalling Project Engineer, avoiding the technicalities of a general-purpose CAD tool).

•   Lightweight

•   Modular and Expandable (a core plus several plugins)

•   OS-independent (written in Qt)

•   Customizable (exposes an open-API interface to develop tailored plugins, and a component, the Library Manager, for digital management of the whole