Abstract: Flooding and flash flooding pose serious infrastructure hazards to human populations in many parts of the world. During a flood, it is critical to identify road segments that are flooded so that rescue and response routes ...

Abstract: Road length is part of the geometry of the roadway network. Its measurement is critical to all road inventory databases. One approach to obtaining it is to drive cars equipped with a distance measurement instrument (DMI) ...

Abstract: Modeling the transportation network of roads and highways for data and information system implementations presents unique challenges. The foremost challenge is selecting a modeling methodology that is compatible with the ...

Abstract: Maintaining the nation’s roads and highways is a critical national infrastructure activity. To do so requires that accurate inventories of roadway features as well as the roadway network itself be maintained. This paper ...

Abstract: Data quality and spatial data accuracy issues are critical to any geographic information systems (GIS) application, especially GIS applications in the transportation community. This paper addresses one specific aspect of ...