Use of light detection and ranging data to identify and quantify intersection obstruction and its severity

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2241, 2011, Pages 99-108

  Tsai, Yichang ^a,b   Yang, Qiang ^c   Wu, Yiching ^a,b  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

A-PLANE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; LINE-OF-SIGHT METHODS; ROADWAY SAFETY; SAFETY IMPROVEMENT; TERRAIN MODELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL TERRAIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84855395030     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2241-11     Document Type: Article

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