Highway alignment optimization through feasible gates

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-144

  Kang, Min Wook ^a   Schonfeld, Paul ^a   Jong, Jyh Cherng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SINOTECH ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS INC   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

And solution quality; Computation efficiency; Feasible bound; Genetic algorithms (GAs); Geographic information systems (GIS); Highway alignment optimization; Horizontal alignment; User defined constraints; Vertical alignment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

HIGHWAY ALIGNMENT OPTIMIZATION; HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT; USER-DEFINED CONSTRAINTS; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

EID: 34250885186     PISSN: 01976729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/atr.5670410202     Document Type: Article

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