New three-dimensional highway design methodology for sight distance measurement

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2262, 2011, Pages 74-82

  Jha, Manoj K ^a   Kumar Karri, Gautham Anand ^a   Kuhn, Wolfgang ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; HIGHWAY PLANNING;

CASE-STUDIES; D* ALGORITHM; DESIGN CONSISTENCY; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN-PROCESS; DRIVER RESPONSE; HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT; IS DESIGN; SIGHT DISTANCE; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

DESIGN;

EID: 84857519258     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2262-08     Document Type: Article

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