Computerized design of overhead transmission power lines

The conventional design of overhead transmission power lines by manual survey, mapping and design techniques, involve costly and time consuming activities. Massive documentation is accumulated during the preliminary studies of terrain, alternative routes selection, power-line hardware configuration, cost-effectiveness-performance optimization, and more. Additional time consuming and costly paper works are invested, in the detailed design of the selected configuration and the unavoidable updating, arising from, unpredictable revisions, affecting parameters of the selected route and power-line hardware. Computerized photogrammetric survey, digital mapping and computerized design techniques have been combined in a procedure, supported by applied software, to minimize the planning, field survey, design and archive assets, involved in the process. A version in practice of this application is the issue of this paper