State-of-the-art of three-dimensional highway geometric design

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 500-511

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

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drainage; Highway aesthetics; Highway geometric design; Sight distance; Three dimensional analysis; Vehicle dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

HIGHWAY AESTHETICS; HIGHWAY GEOMETRIC DESIGN;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032083633     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l97-111     Document Type: Article

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