Sight distance evaluation on complex highway vertical alignments

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 577-586

  Easa, Said M ^a   Abd El Halim, A O ^b   Hassan, Yasser ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Highway; Passing zones; Sight distance; Vertical alignment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURVES (ROAD); GEOMETRY; HEADLIGHTS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OVERPASSES;

CREST VERTICAL CURVE; HIGHWAY VERTICAL ALIGNMENTS; REVERSE VERTICAL CURVE; SAG VERTICAL CURVE; SIGHT DISTANCE; TWO LANE HIGHWAYS;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030172321     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l96-866     Document Type: Article

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