Intersection modeling for highway alignment optimization

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-129

  Kim, Eungcheol ^a   Jha, Manoj K ^b   Lovell, David J ^c   Schonfeld, Paul ^c  

^a Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)   (South Korea)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; INTERSECTIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

HIGHWAY ALIGNMENT; OPTIMAL SEARCH;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING;

DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GIS; OPTIMIZATION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 1542287352     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2004.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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