Ensuring that the available sight distance (ASD) on highways meets the minimum requirements of geometric design standards is crucial for safe and efficient operation of highways. Current practices of ASD assessment using design software or through site visits are labor intensive, time consuming, and traffic disruptive. Thus, this paper introduces a fully automated algorithm that allows large-scale assessment of ASD in three-dimensional (3D) space on highways utilizing mobile light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data. The algorithm was tested on LiDAR data of highway segments in Alberta, Canada. The results showed that the algorithm was highly accurate in detecting sight distance limitations at the defined regions and, in all cases, the driver’s vision was restricted by the pavement surface on vertical crest curves. In the case of combined vertical and horizontal curves, the vertical crest curve was found to be the controlling element in sight distance deficiencies. In addition, the assessment of historical collision data revealed clusters along the regions defined with ASD limitations, indicating that restrictions in drivers’ vision could have contributed to the collision occurrence.


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    Titel :

    Voxel-Based Methodology for Automated 3D Sight Distance Assessment on Highways using Mobile Light Detection and Ranging Data


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Beteiligte:
    Shalkamy, Amr (Autor:in) / El-Basyouny, Karim (Autor:in) / Xu, Hai Yang (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    05.05.2020




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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