Dive Brief:

• Autodesk has a new product called Autodesk Vehicle Tracking 2014 that lets engineers use what-if scenarios in designing roads and interchanges, looking at their likely effects on traffic.
• As with BIM in building construction, the goal is to create a more efficient and less expensive construction process by testing designs and discovering weaknesses or project conflicts before going into the field.
• Autodesk's ability to bring BIM to road-building is due in part to its acquisition of technology from Savory Computing Services.

Dive Insight:

The new product fits with several Autodesk products that focus on BIM and BIM-like collaboration in transportation design.and construction. Those include a design suite, 3-D AutoCAD for civil engineering and Vault, a project-collaboration application.