CELLING THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS: USING A CELL-BASED GIS IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

Many software vendors now offer tools for raster or cell-based geoprocessing. At the first glance of a highway engineer, the idea somehow seems too crude to be of much use for transportation applications. In actuality, cell-based modeling provides a whole new set of tools that can be quite effective in dealing with transportation problems that can overwhelm a strictly vector-based solution. This paper provides a generic look at cell-based geoprocessing and how these powerful concepts can be integrated with vector data and applied to areas such as transportation planning, corridor location studies, alignment design optimization and drainage calculations.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

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• Authors:
  • Hollingshead, M
  • Gerlt, B
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the 1994 Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T) Symposium
  • Location: Norfolk, VA
  • Date: 1994-4-11 to 1994-4-13
• Publication Date: 1994-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 121-143

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alignment; Geographic information systems; Transportation corridors; Vector analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Cells
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00677843
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 19 1995 12:00AM