UVATERV Road and Railway Design Co., Ltd.

Road and highway design

Transport development plans

Railway planning

Airport planning

Geodetic works

Bridge and structural design

Architecture

Structural engineering

Electrical design

Building engineering

Water management, design of water structures

Metro and underground facility design

IT services

Other engineering services (organization and implementation of investments, design supervision, expert activities, scientific research, development, preparation of tender plans)

The design of various transportation facilities (roads, railways, metro, bridges, towers, etc.) at home and abroad required the greatest possible use of computer technology in order to increase quality and efficiency.

From 1965 – when larger computers appeared in Hungary – the Computerization Group established at UVATERV, together with the Department of Road Construction of BME, conducted research on the applicability of computer technology in planning.

In 1970, the Computerization Department was established.

UVATERV only had its own computer after 1976, until then the programs written since 1965 were run on rented computers.

In 1977, the Computer Center was established (with approximately 70 people), which consisted of three departments:

Program Planning Department

Program Management Department

Computer Operator Department

The Program Design Department staff worked closely with the facility designers. The Program Management Department also carried out educational and publication preparation work. Design brochures were prepared for the various programs. Such a brochure began with a brief description of the program, provided instructions for filling out the data sheets, contained sample completed data sheets, and presented the printed results. A “Program Catalog” was also prepared for the programs by discipline.

In 1987, UVATERV installed a VAX computer network with the help of an OMFB loan. A distributed intelligence computer system operating in several buildings was built. Existing programs were modified and new interactive program systems were created.

Meanwhile, in the 1980s and 1990s, employees of individual offices also created programs for smaller personal computers to solve current small calculation tasks, and these were published in manuals. (E.g. Spectrum, PTK-1096 for programmable magnetic card calculator)

In 1992, the company acquired the English MOSS linear facility design software for the road design office, which ran on a workstation, Unix operating system. Several program parts of the ARC/INFO GIS system were also purchased, also for the workstations.

The traffic network analysis program EMME2 was installed on the MicroVAX system, VMS operating system.

Between 1993 and 1997, the first Novell network system was implemented in the Krisztina Boulevard headquarters, connecting the computers of the Road and Bridge Offices at a speed of 10 Mbps. At that time, the AutoCAD license manager was purchased for the first time in Hungary, and programs running on SUN workstations also exchanged data with personal computers.

In 1997, the Road Planning Office moved to the Dombóvári Street building, where a CAT5 network with 10/100 Mbps speed hubs per level was built. The Novell network was switched to the Windows Domain Server network solution. Both the quantities and versions of software licenses increased continuously. With the increase in the performance of Windows operating systems, programs previously written for workstations were transferred to the Windows Platform. With the increase in the performance of personal computers, programs written for certain fields were supplemented primarily with AutoCAD systems.

The entire company moved to the new headquarters in 2001 and then it became necessary to build a structured network. The telephone and computer system were integrated and IP telephony was introduced among the first in Hungary, with the help of Cisco Callmanagers. About 250 endpoints were initially built, and then these were increased according to needs. The 10/100 Mbps PoE network was built on Cisco Catalyst 4006 switches. An HP SAN system with several TByte storage capacity was built behind the servers to manage the data.

Windows operating systems also evolved: they moved from 16-bit to 32-bit, then to 64-bit. Operating systems also adapted to the performance of personal computers, and then user software was able to take advantage of the performance increase.

The development in software was partly the expansion of Autodesk's specialized software, while in architecture, the Hungarian Graphisoft product, ArchiCAD, began to spread with the use of younger architectural colleagues.

The Research, Development and IT Office was established in 2013.

The company continues to operate its own IT system to support its engineering services.

The basic concept of UVATERV's IT system is to provide complex service to the company's business processes by developing reliable but rational solutions.

Some of the most important program systems developed by UVATERV:

Automated road planning systems :

UTESZ 1 (Road Planning with Electronic Computer) 1965-1970 for GIER machine, in ALGOL 60 language

UTESZ 2 1970 – 1976 for ICL System 4/70 machine, in FORTRAN language

UTESZ 3 1977 – 1984 ESZ 0120-B (Bulgarian R-20) + CalComp 9000 for own machines

UKO road modernization program system

UTESZ 5 1987-1990 for VAX-11/780 system network, mainly for highway planning

MIRO (Micro Road) for IBM PC XT/AT compatible personal computer, for road upgrades

UTESZ 6 interactive (drainage system also)

For planning site plan details of UCSO level junctions

MIRO PLUS I. tervrajzok AutoCAD-ben

Other important program systems: (largely with OMFB, ÉVM support)

GETESZ (Geodetic Planning with Electronic Computer), later also for VAX-11/780

MIGEO PLUS (Micro Geodesy); for IBM PC XT/AT compatible personal computers, interactive

VAVTESZ (Railway Route Planning with Electronic Computer) with revision of UTESZ

KÖTESZ (Transport Development Planning with Electronic Computers) later also for VAX-11/780

VOLUME 14: OKFT (National Road Network Development Plan), developed jointly with KTI for VAX-11/780

LITMOR (Land-Based Integrated Terrain Modeling System) for IBM PC XT/AT personal computer

MILASCA (MIcro LAndSCAping) landscaping software system (earth mass calculation, movement)

TERA (graphical interactive modeling program system for two- and three-dimensional optimization of building space designs) for IBM PC XT/AT compatible personal computers

MICHA (MIcro CHAnnel) interactive channel planning software system

MILI (MIcro LIght) is a software system for designing artificial lighting for buildings.

NETORG (NETwork-ORGanization) network planning and resource allocation software system

"Freely installed prestressed reinforced concrete bridges" program system (continuously since the 1970s, 12 pr.)

MIFRA calculation of planar bar structures

  Main programs that UVATERV purchased and used after further development:

"Inspection of Plate Structures" (from NDK): ALEM, VLEM, OLEM, SUP

MOSS; Lusas; SPIRIT; Allprojekt; DataCAD, stb.

Transport network planning: EMME/2; VISUM

Geospatial Information: ArcInfo (ARC/INFO)

Property settlement: ITR

Structural design: AXIS VM finite element software; MathCad; ConSteel;

ACOBRI (ArcelorMittal COmposite BRIdges); EBPlate; RM Bridge Professional

VBExpress + AutoCAD design of reinforced concrete structures

Road design: Bentley MX system; Autodesk Civil 3D

Railway design: AutoCAD Civil 3D + Ferrovia

Architecture: ArchiCAD; DataCAD; Revit, Building Design Suit

Electrical design: WSCAD

Other: Vault, Eagle Point; Plaxis…etc.

State-owned company from 1948: ÁMTI, from 1950 UVATERV, transformed into a joint-stock company in 1993

Until the early 1990s, the designs of almost all domestic road and transport facilities were prepared by UVATERV (most of the later companies were founded by former UVATERV designers), using computer technology in all fields.

By developing and further developing the appropriate program systems, the company has also prepared many plans for foreign assignments (e.g.: Sfax-Tripoli 500 km railway line, plans for the 730 km railway line in Libya, plans for the Calcutta and Tripoli metros, etc.)