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2025 ProVAL Workshops and Events Update

The 2025 ProVAL workshops and events schedule is updated. Please check it out.

ProVAL workshops in Rhode Island

This year’s events will include online and in person workshops and *** New *** ProVAL users forum.

Online ProVAL on-demand workshops: Three hours hands-on-centric workshop. Focus on the essential ProVAL features for smoothness assurance and ride quality analysis. Discuss real-world case studies to identify common roughness issues to improve smoothness.

Free Quarterly Live ProVAL User forums: Two hours of interactive online forums to discuss. Selected ProVAL 4.x new features, functions, and tips, Recent ProVAL 4.x bug fixes and their effects, Users shared project files and issues (including bugs, questions, etc.), Users wish list for future ProVAL enhancements.

Some of the dates are still tentative. Please sign up for the ProVAL Update to receive automated email notices.

ProVAL 4.0.63 Released

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Analysis: Curling and Warping

  • Fix: PSG results were incorrect when the option for “Use SI Units” was changed from checked to unchecked.

Analysis: Ride Quality

  • Change: The Fixed-interval analysis was changed to better match the results of ProVAL 3.6. Differences may still occur due to ProVAL 4’s improved accuracy with regards to distance.
  • Fix: When using SI units, non-RN overall ride quality values were displayed in m/m instead of m/km.

Reports

  • Change: Reports sometimes cannot be created because the profile or section names contain text that is not allowed by Windows. ProVAL will now attempt to remove problem text. When this happens, a timecode will be appended to the file name to ensure the file name is unique.
  • Improved feedback of problems that prevent saving a report file.

Miscellaneous

  • Fix: Project files were sometimes saved with the wrong permissions, causing the files to not be openable on other computers.
  • Fix: Adding files to a project would take progressively longer each time during a session.
  • Stability improvements.

ProVAL 4.0.62 Released

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File Import

  • Change: Improved importing of GPS coordinates from RSP files.

Editor

  • Change: Improved routing.
  • Change: Improved section colors on map.
  • Fix: Joint locations and charts did not always update when necessary.
  • Fix: Changes to routes were not listed in the file history.

Analysis: Curling and Warping

  • Fix: Copying the results table caused a crash.

Analysis: Profilograph

  • Fix: The basis column was not always visible.

Analysis: Ride Quality

  • Fix: HRI and MRI results were listed twice in tables.

Analysis: Smoothness Assurance

  • Fix: HRI and MRI results were listed twice in tables.

Miscellaneous

  • Fix: The start and stop coordinate values were sometimes missing the KML/KMZ exports.
  • Stability improvements.

ProVAL 4.0.60 Released

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Editor

  • Fix: Custom properties could not be added.
  • Fix: Changes to joints did not mark the project file as unsaved.

Analysis: Profile Screener

  • Fix: The extreme and low roughness analyses were incorrect.
  • Fix: False-positives were sometimes reported for the low-pass filtering detection.

Analysis: Profilograph

  • Fix: The blanking bands were not always drawn correctly (or crashed) when multiple files were analyzed.

Analysis: Ride Quality

  • Fix: Fixed interal for HRI and IRI was showing HRI for the value of the right IRI.
  • Fix: Fixed interal for MRI and IRI was showing MRI for the value of the right IRI.
  • Fix: The fixed interval chart could not be copied, saved, or printed.

Analysis: Smoothness Assurance

  • Fix: Rolling straightedge comparison did not work.

Miscellaneous

  • Using the profile selection buttons in the toolbar (left, center, right, all) will no longer apply the analysis filter template if a profile was already selected.
  • Stability improvements.

ProVAL 4.0.59 Released

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File Import

  • Fix: When applicable, Sections were missing coordinates when imported from PPF files and previous ProVAL projects. For any projects saved with 4.0, the routes will need to be re-applied for coordinates to be assigned to Sections.
  • Fix: The File Import Wizard did not work well for very short profiles.

Editor

  • Fix: Exporting a section that could not be saved due to invalid text in the resulting file name caused a crash. A warning will now be shown.

Analysis: Ride Quality

  • Change: Previously, the analysis would stop if any errors occurred. Now, the analysis will attempt to always analyze all profiles.
  • Fix: Changing the input values might not clear the results and enable the Analyze button.

Miscellaneous

  • Fix: Project file paths containing non-ANSI characters may not be able to opened or saved.
  • Fix: ProVAL did not always close after an error occurred.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Stability improvements.

ProVAL 3.61.54

This update fixes the validation of section locations.

Download ProVAL 3.61.54

Editor

  • Fix: Corrected validation of section locations. Note that full validation is not yet provided when directly editing coordinates.