Analytical model for sight distance analysis on three-dimensional highway alignments

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1523, 1996, Pages 1-10

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

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; CURVES (ROAD); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OVERPASSES; SLOPE STABILITY; SPREADSHEETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CROSS SLOPES; HORIZONTAL CURVES; SIDE SLOPES; SIGHT DISTANCE ANALYSIS; SIGHT OBSTRUCTIONS; SUPERELEVATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL HIGHWAY ALIGNMENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VERTICAL CURVES;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030284136     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1523-01     Document Type: Article

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