EVALUATION OF COMPLEX INTERCHANGE DESIGNS BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS

SOME OF THE METHODS ARE DISCUSSED OF CONSTRUCTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS USED IN THE EVALUATION OF THE HIGHWAY AND INTERCHANGE DESIGN, PARTICULARLY AS A MEANS OF DETERMINING THE AESTHETICS OF THE HIGHWAY ALIGNMENT AND THE SURROUNDING TERRAIN. A CASE STUDY IS DESCRIBED OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL FOR A COMPLEX INTERCHANGE IN TORONTO, ONTARIO. A STEP BY STEP FABRICATING PROCEDURE IS DESCRIBED, AND THE ROLE THAT MOTION AND STILL PHOTOGRAPHY PLAYS IN THE EVALUATION OF DESIGN IS DISCUSSED. A PHOTOGRAPHIC PROGRAM IS ALSO DESCRIBED WHICH TAKES INTO ACCOUNT BOTH THE MOTORIST VIEW AND THAT OF A PEDESTRIAN VIEWING THE COMPLEX INTERCHANGE FROM THE SURROUNDING AREA. /CGRA/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 18 Pp, 19 FIG, 10 PHOT, 5 REF, 1 APP
• Corporate Authors:

  Ontario Department of Highways

  1201 Wilson Avenue
  Toronto, Ontario M3M 1J8,   Canada 
• Authors:
  • Geissler, E M
  • Aziz, A R A
• Publication Date: 1969-1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Evaluation; Highway design; Interchanges; Interchanges and intersections; Mathematical models; Photography
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00203221
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: CANADIAN GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 29 1994 12:00AM