08-07-2015

Transmission Line (TL) Route

Geographic Information System
(GIS) The objective of TL routing is to seek location of Tower
over the Terrain such that overall cost of tower
Training construction and cable laying is minimum
(14th Ashar– 24th Ashar 2072)
Parameters influencing cost can be classified as:
TL and Station Location on GIS Topography related such as Land Elevation, Vegetation
Distribution, Urbanization, road and rail network etc
Tower related such as tower height and tower foundation
Raghu N. Prajapati
raghunp@nec.edu.np

The layer wise information digitized from toposheets

include:
• GIS can play a major role in designing, planning, corridor
mapping, route identification, and cost-benefit analysis
for power transactions.
• Conventional methods adopted in transmission system
are based on available paper maps, knowledge of person
present in the field, survey toposheets, route walkover
to define alignment, etc. Thus, the work approach is
mainly based on thumb rules and preconceived notions.
• All major and minor roads.
• Water bodies like rivers, canals, etc.
• Railway networks.
• Power and communication line crossings.
• Historical and forest areas.
• Play grounds, parks, stadiums, airports, etc.
• Depending upon various constraints, such as reserved and
protected forests, populated areas, flood-prone, marshy
areas, national highways, railway lines, communication
lines, etc., select the optimal route of alignment.

• In order to get Total Weighed Surface Map (TWSM),

maps are gathered, digitized,
• clipped or unified, entered attributes according to
weights and converted to raster
• By the help of ArcGIS’ toolboxes like buffer, merge, union,
clip, conversion tools, editing tools etc. Especially some
raster maps of the criteria like distance to roads, slope,
forested and rocky lands etc. are prepared in a long
period of time
• After all the raster - based maps are being prepared,
the Raster Calculator toolbox is used to unify the
maps with their weights and Total Weighed Surface
Map (TWSM) is prepared

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Sample of weighted

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