Question: What type of construction projects have potentially higher cost saving?
Answer: The more uneven geographical locations (such as mountainous areas), the better. Even flat terrains with different types of land ownership rights or barriers (imposing challenging constraints and making decisions on corridor shape difficult) are suitable construction projects.
Question: Is cost optimization the only goal available in corridor optimization?
Answer: No, other possibilities include: shortest path (without violating project constrains), cheapest or shortest paths without adding any main structures (bridges or tunnels), greenest path by having the least cut and fill (earthwork) values, minimized highway crossings, rivers, or minimizing environmental impacts.
Question: Some inputs are for detailed design phase. Does the system perform detailed design?
Answer: No, although the Robots examine many detailed concepts which are usually involved at detailed design phase, the system only designs the project line.
Question: Must inputs be more accurate than what the original corridor designer has used?
Answer: No, our system can read inputs at any level of precision. For example, in some countries there is no topographic map with a quality better than 1/25000 for the whole terrain at initial phases.
Question: Is there any real-world example or customer story?
Answer: Yes, as shown below, the red corridor shows the human designed path with a length of 12.4 Km. By applying a shorter path goal and not violating the project constraints without the addition of any bridges and tunnels, the light blue colored corridor was generated. Result: The length of our corridor was 1088 meters shorter than the original one!
