Affordance-based Categorization of Road Network Data Using a Grounded Theory of Channel Networks

A grounded ontological theory of channel networks to categorize features, like junctions in road network databases is proposed by the authors of this paper. Due to the fact that its primitives can be given an unambiguous interpretation into directly observable qualities of physical road networks, like supported movements and their medium, connectedness of such media, and turnoff restrictions, the theory is considered to be grounded. The theory provides a very general approach to automatically annotate and integrate road network data from heterogeneous sources, because it rests on application-independent observation principles. The authors suggest that road network categories like junctions and roads are based on locomotion affordances and road network databases can be mapped into the authors channel network theory, so that instances of roads and junctions can be automatically categorized or checked for consistency. This paper introduces affordance-based definitions of a road network and a junction. The paper also shows that the latter is satisfied by some of the most common junction types such as 4-way-intersections, diamond interchanges, jughandles and cloverleafs.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810903514198
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Scheider, Simon
  • Kuhn, Werner
• Publication Date: 2010-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 1249-1267
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Geographical Information Science
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 1365-8816
  • EISSN: 1362-3087
  • Serial URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tgis20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Databases; Heterogeneity; Intersections; Traffic channelization; Traffic flow theory; Types of roads by network
• Uncontrolled Terms: Categorization
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01487482
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 18 2013 1:58PM