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A Proposed Method Of Transportation Feature Identification, J. Allison Butler, Kenneth Dueker
A Proposed Method Of Transportation Feature Identification, J. Allison Butler, Kenneth Dueker
Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports
Geographic information systems (GIS) are being increasingly deployed by transportation agencies to help them display, review, and utilize data. The primary items of interest are transportation facilities and services, which may take the form of highways, airports, bus routes, and seaports, among others. Using GIS software, transportation facilities are represented as geometric shapes; i.e., points, lines, and areas. However, it is increasingly apparent to GIS users in the field of transportation that a geometry-based approach is not sufficient.
The offered solution is to develop a feature-based GIS approach for transportation. The central requirement of such an approach is to have …