Sight distance red zones on combined horizontal and sag vertical curves

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 621-630

  Hassan, Yasser ^a   Easa, Said M ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combined alignment; Red zone; Sight distance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVES (ROAD); STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

PREVIEW SIGHT DISTANCE; RED ZONES; STOPPING SIGHT DISTANCE;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

ROAD;

EID: 0032147446     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l97-127     Document Type: Article

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