Highway alignment: Three-dimensional problem and three-dimensional solution

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1612, 1998, Pages 17-25

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

SIGHT DISTANCE;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032131078     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1612-03     Document Type: Article

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