Route Selection
Route selection is a complex and often a formidable task depending upon very many and diverse factors. As such it is certainly impossible to automatize this vital process however sophisticated the software system and powerful the computer on which it runs might be. The human brain and experience is still the irreplaceable master in this field against all the self exceeding claims of Artificial Intelligence proponents and enthusiasts.
Yet that the computers are great aids to human intelligence in this tough enterprise is beyond any doubt. YAPP has been designed always keeping this potential in mind. It has many capabilities such as quickly and automatically viewing the cross-sections of a trial route, earth-work volumes, operation, slope and altitude statistics and other characteristics of horizontal and vertical alignment.
Another ambitious attempt of YAPP is to simulate a flight in the route corridor continuously following it. This is easy to prepare as a reconnaissance trip along the corridor in that it requires only a sufficiently detailed terrain model and trial routes under inspection.
The pictures in this page gives instances of such a trip over Camlibel corridor in rough terrain which is carefully mapped by our survey team with an approximate length of 9 km. They show views at 7 successive stations. The trial route enters a tunnel at about km:4+250 and leaves it off at Km:5+250. You can freely move in the land as well as follow the trial route and can at times get the feeling of flying depending on the speed and power of your computer.
Pic. 1: At the start trial route overlaps the existing highway (Km 0+228)
Pic. 2: Trial route winds up at the bottom of a steep valley (Km:1+118.53)
Pic. 3: This section continuously climbs up wit a slope of % 6.
Pic. 4: Climbing comes close to the tunnel entrance (Km:3+890)
Pic. 5: Trial route enters the tunnel at about 4+250
Pic. 6: Tunnel exit is at 5+250
Pic. 7: Finally the trial route joins the existing highway once more and ends on it (View station: 8+275)
