OpenRoads Designer Classes

To MoDOT's Consultants Partners,

We would like to inform your firm about our upcoming OpenRoads Designer classes, (Road 1, Road-2, and Survey) that MoDOT is providing to consultants. The dates and locations, along with other important information is listed below. We are going to limit the registration to a max of two individuals from each consultant firm for each class and will be on a first-come-first-serve basis.

OpenRoads Designer Road-1

November 16th - 19th, 2026 in MoDOT's St Louis Traffic Management Center (TMC), Conference Room 209, located at 14301 South Outer 40 Road, Town and Country, MO 63017. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in attending this class.

OpenRoads Designer Road-2

November 30th - December 4th, 2026 in MoDOT's KC District Office, Conference Room 136, located at 600 NE Colbern Road Lee's Summit, MO 64086. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in attending this class.

OpenRoads Designer Survey

January 26th - 28th, 2027 in the Central Office-Design, CADD Classroom, located at 200 Harrison St, Jefferson City, MO 65101. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in attending this class.

Below is a summary for the classes:

Here is information for the OpenRoads Designer Road 1 classes.

• Class is free for consultants that are currently on or will be assigned a MoDOT job.
• Class will use ORD provided on a MoDOT Laptop with ProjectWise installed.
• The training will start Monday morning at 9:00am and will go until 3:30 pm each day. The remaining days will start at 8:00am and end on Friday - End times depends on the pace of the class. Additionally, we will allow 45 minutes to an hour for lunch each day and it will be on your own.
• While this class is an introductory type of class, attendees must have a good knowledge of MicroStation.
• The "ORD - Road 1" training material will cover the following topics:

Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Terrain Model

Chapter 2 - Civil Geometry - Horizontal Geometry

Chapter 3 - Civil Geometry - Vertical Geometry

Chapter 4 - Corridor Modeling Overview

Chapter 5 - Geometry Creating Templates

Chapter 6 - Superelevation

Chapter 7 - Design with Corridor Modeling

Chapter 8 - Named Boundaries - Cross Sections and Earthwork

Chapter 9 - Named Boundaries - Plan Sheet Production

Chapter 10 - Pavement Markings

• Participants will be using MoDOT assigned logins and laptops to access the class files and ProjectWise Environment. MoDOT will supply the material to be used during training.
• Registration is limited to 16 attendees for each class and will be on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Here is information for the OpenRoads Designer Road 2 classes.

• Class is free for consultants that are currently on or will be assigned a MoDOT job.
• Class will use ORD provided on a MoDOT Laptop with ProjectWise installed.
• The training will start Monday morning at 9:00am and will go until 3:30 pm each day. The remaining days will start at 8:00am and end on Thursday - End times depends on the pace of the class. Additionally, we will allow 45 minutes to an hour for lunch each day and it will be on your own.
• This class is not an introductory type of class and attendees must have a good knowledge of MicroStation and OpenRoads Designer.
• The "ORD - Road 2" training material will cover the following topics:
  • Advanced Terrain Modeling
  • Ramp Design
  • End Bent Modeling
  • Intersection Design
  • Earthwork
  • Special Ditches
  • Sight Visibility Tools
  • Display Rules
  • Guardrail Modeling

• Participants will be using MoDOT assigned log-ins and laptops to access the class files and ProjectWise Environment. MoDOT will supply the material to be used during training.
• Registration is limited to 16 attendees for each class and will be on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Here is information for the Open Roads Designer Survey class.

• Class is free for consultants that are currently on or will be assigned a MoDOT job.
• Class will use ORD provided on a MoDOT Laptop with ProjectWise installed.
• The training will start Tuesday morning at 9:00am and will go until 3:30 pm each day. The remaining days will start at 8:00am and end on Thursday - End times depends on the pace of the class. Additionally, we will allow 45 minutes to an hour for lunch each day and it will be on your own.
• Attendees must have a good knowledge of MicroStation.
• The "Open Roads Designer Survey" training material will cover the following topics:
  • Importing Survey Data (MoDOT "Rec" File)
  • Civil Geometry - Horizontal
  • Terrain Models - Creating and Editing
  • Exporting Graphic Features
  • MoDOT Survey Workflow
  • Point and Linear Feature Editing
  • Working with LiDAR Data

• Participants will be using MoDOT assigned log-ins and laptops to access the class files and ProjectWise Environment. MoDOT will supply the material to be used during training.
• Registration is limited to 16 attendees for each class and will be on a first-come-first-serve basis.

All training will be taught using ProjectWise. But for those of you that don't use ProjectWise don't worry. During the training we will show the steps on how to navigate the class documents within ProjectWise.

Thanks!

Kevin Vollet

CADD Services Administrator

Missouri Department of Transportation

Central Office - Design

601 West Main, Jefferson City, MO 65109

573.526.5176