Criteria-based decision support system for selecting highway alignments

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-41

  Jha, Manoj K ^a  

^a Center of Excellence for Tactical and Advanced Communications Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Alignment; Decision support systems; Geographic information systems; Highways

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

HIGHWAY ALIGNMENTS;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM;

EID: 0037248980     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2003)129:1(33)     Document Type: Article

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