Diolkos includes special utilities and functions for quantities and volume measurements at the construction stage of a corridor project. These utilities can be used in road and hydraulic projects simplifying significantly this kind of works.

The program reads the lines that comprise the cross sections (soil lines, layer lines, etc) using one of the following ways:

a)      In a cross section to cross section form.

b)      Overall reading measurement data from XYZ text files

c)      From soil or layer models which are expressed as 3d      mesh objects

The user can define typical cross sections appling to the soil crown. He is able to choose the set of layers which is to be computed (topsoil remove, topsoil lagging, etc).

The program can visually modify the cross sections lines (pavement lines, soil crown lines, etc.) either during the design or during the construction stage of a project. The programs capability to snap on any point or line of the cross section can greatly assist the user.