THE POLYNOMIAL ALIGNMENT COMPUTER PROGRAM

This article describes the spline vertical and horizontal alignment program developed to a first stage of release at the Main Roads Department, Queensland. It is envisaged that it will prove of assistance in rural and urban roadway design processes. Two design techniques are incorporated in the alignment - a visual means of controlling and displaying an alignment and interpolation of a complex shape in mathematical terms. The underlying goals of the program have been simplicity of data specification and user-defined alignment shape control. Details of the program are given. Further commands for the program are being developed. /TRRL/

• Record URL:
  • http://arrbknowledge.com
• Corporate Authors:

  Queensland Main Roads Department, Australia

  P.O. Box 1412T
  Brisbane, Queensland 4001,   Australia 
• Publication Date: 1974-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: p. 34-40
• Serial:
  • QUEENSLAND ROADS
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue Number: 25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alignment; Computer programs; Digital computers; Highway design; Polynomials; Rural highways; Splines; Urban highways
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Old TRIS Terms: Program
• ITRD Terms: 2894: Alignment; 8006: Australia; 8673: Digital computer; 8645: Software
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00097813
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 10 1975 12:00AM