Establishing highway horizontal alignment to maximize design consistency

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1159-1168

  Easa, Said M ^a   Mehmood, Atif ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design consistency; Geometric; Highway; Horizontal alignment; Optimization modeling; Speed profile

Indexed keywords

CURVES (ROAD); DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HIGHWAY DESIGN CONSISTENCY; HIGHWAY HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT; OPERATING-SPEED;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

CURVES (ROAD); DESIGN; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; ROAD; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 36148988823     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L07-043     Document Type: Article

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