Revit-Based Automation Modeling for Intermediate Railway Station

The railway station is the basic unit of transportation networks. It contains cluster of data which should be organized appropriately to effectively extract useful information. Building Information Modeling (BIM) process revolves around a virtual information-rich 3D model. Once a model has been developed in a BIM software such as Revit, third-party add-ins application can be used to further leverage the data. In this paper, authors develop a Revit-based extension tool which enables railway engineer to design and represent the railway station simultaneously. It has three major components: (1) Access database that includes the standard design rules, (2) 3D models of station elements represented separately as Revit families, and (3) C# program code is used for performing the design process. The model has been verified and applied to a real case study of XiaMen station, China. As a result, this model highlights any possible conflicts before the real construction starts. By the enhancement of databases linked to the developed tool, the BIM techniques could be considered as a potential direction for modeling conceptualization of intermediate railway stations.