Intersection construction cost functions for alignment optimization

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 194-203

  Kim, Eungcheol ^a   Jha, Manoj K ^b   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

Alignment; Construction costs; Earthwork; Intersections; Optimization models; Pavements

Indexed keywords

COSTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

COST FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS;

TRANSPORTATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 1842480299     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2004)130:2(194)     Document Type: Article

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