Model-based quality assurance in railway infrastructure planning

A primary motive for adopting the methodology Building Information Modeling (BIM) in planning processes is to improve planning accuracy, cost security, and in turn quality. Up to now, however, a generally applicable, standardized means of validating design quality has been lacking. To address this shortcoming, this article presents 14 quality parameters in the domains of clash detection, semantics as well as quantities and costs, that apply to...