Aspects Regarding 3D Road Modeling in Virtual Reality Scenarios for Driving Simulators

2010 ◽  
Vol 166-167 ◽  
pp. 439-444
Author(s):  
Razvan Vlad Vasiu ◽  
Cornel Brisan
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Geometric Representation ◽  
Vertical Alignment ◽  
Driving Simulators ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
Selection Of

Road design aims at the selection of geometric design parameters resulting in a road environment which can be used in driving simulators, in accordance with real situations. The following chapters present the road alignment parameters with respect to their geometric representation in virtual reality, focused on two road profiles, horizontal and vertical alignment. This paper discusses and presents the graphical representation of roads in Matlab m-code as virtual reality models with respect to safety regulations.

Aspects Regarding Modular Road Design in Virtual Reality

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ra˘zvan-Vlad Vasiu ◽  
Cornel Bris¸an
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Geometric Object ◽  
Driving Simulators ◽  
Graphical Modeling ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Car Driving

This paper discusses and presents graphical representation of roads as 3D geometric object in virtual reality and Matlab in accordance with civil road construction rules concerning aspects for macro level: vertical and horizontal road alignment and micro level: surface rugosity. In the following are presented implementation methods and the advantages for road graphical modeling in 3D with the help of virtual reality in both macro and micro level. The goal of the paper is to present a modular approach for development of a fully integrated 3D road model using virtual reality with Matlab. The computed parameters are included into VRML/X3D files which are useful for development of car driving simulators.

scholarly journals Development of Driving Simulation Scenarios Based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Road Safety Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2039
Author(s):  
Juan F. Dols ◽  
Jaime Molina ◽  
F. Javier Camacho-Torregrosa ◽  
David Llopis-Castelló ◽  
Alfredo García
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Safety Analysis ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Driving Simulators ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Building Information

The analysis of road safety is critical in road design. Complying to guidelines is not enough to ensure the highest safety levels, so many of them encourage designers to virtually recreate and test their roads, benefitting from the evolution of driving simulators in recent years. However, an accurate recreation of the road and its environment represents a real bottleneck in the process. A very important limitation lies in the diversity of input data, from different sources and requiring specific adaptations for every single simulator. This paper aims at showing a framework for recreating faster virtual scenarios by using an Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)-based file. This methodology was compared to two other conventional methods for developing driving scenarios. The main outcome of this study has demonstrated that with a data exchange file in IFC format, virtual scenarios can be faster designed to carry out safety audits with driving simulators. As a result, the editing, programming, and processing times were substantially reduced using the proposed IFC exchange file format through a BIM (Building Information Modeling) model. This methodology facilitates cost-savings, execution, and optimization resources in road safety analysis.

scholarly journals SIGHT DISTANCE ANALYSES IN ROAD DESIGN PROCESS: SERBIAN PRACTICE

Transport ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejan Gavran ◽  
Sanja Fric ◽  
Vladan Ilić ◽  
Filip Trpčevski
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Operating Speed ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Sight Distance ◽  
Road Geometry ◽  
Design Speed

New Serbian policies on road design introduce the concept of operating speeds. Decades ago, national policies were based on the constant design speed concept. Among other design parameters, in relation to that constant design speed, minimum radii of horizontal and vertical road geometry were determined. Introduction of the operating speed concept provides for more realistic prediction of speed levels along the road. Unlike the constant design speed, operating speed levels vary along the road, reaching higher levels in curves with larger radii, on straight sections and on reverse curves and dropping down to the design speed level in horizontal curves with the minimum radius. Consequently, besides a constant Stopping Sight Distance (SSD), which is calculated from the constant design speed, the new term, Required Sight Distance (RSD) is introduced. RSD varies along the road, as it is calculated from the operating speed, which also varies along the road. Appropriate RSD analyses are crucial on road rehabilitation projects, since a simple resurfacing that enables higher speed levels, without providing increased RSD, may hamper the safety of a newly resurfaced road. Software tools for predicting operating speed levels and optical analyses of the road are also presented in this paper. Software tools for RSD analyses enable the import of lines of sight into the 3D model of the roadway and their export into the cross sections extracted from the model, thus facilitating the obstacle removal. Also demonstrated are tools for determining Available Sight Distance (ASD), which are based on triangulated 3D models of the roadway as well.

scholarly journals Perencanaan Geometri Jalan Berdasarkan Metode Bina Marga Menggunakan Program Visual Basic

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Eduardi Prahara
Keyword(s):  
Highway Construction ◽  
Visual Basic ◽  
Geometric Design ◽  
Vertical Alignment ◽  
Low Speed ◽  
Horizontal Alignment ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Manual Calculation

One of the main things in a highway construction plan is the geometric design that includes horizontal and vertical alignment design. This study aims to formulate the steps of highway geometric design into Visual Basic 2005 program. The design steps are the calculation of horizontal and vertical alignment. Using Visual Basic 2005, it is expected that the calculation can be done faster than the manual calculation without mistake. The program is validated by comparing results obtained by manual calculations with a difference about 1x10-4 which is considered accurate. As a case study, a geometric road design is conducted in Bogor in 2009 with a fairly low-speed plan 20-40 km/hour. In the plan, the road has 28 PI (Points of Intersection) on the horizontal alignment and 15 PVI (Point of Vertical Intersection) and obtains good results in accordance with requirements and regulations issued by Bina Marga. 

scholarly journals Minimizing earthwork volumes by optimizing vertical alignment with linear programming algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 03028
Author(s):  
Aytug Artun ◽  
Vladimir Badenko ◽  
Yulia Volkova ◽  
Anton Radaev
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Model ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Linear Optimization ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Programming Algorithm ◽  
Vertical Alignment ◽  
Volume Calculation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Linear Optimization Model

Earthwork cost is one of the major cost items (approximately 25% of the construction costs) in road construction projects. The amount of earthwork volumes therefore earthwork cost, mostly depends on the geometry of the road vertical alignment. We can conclude that an optimized vertical alignment has a profound impact on earthwork costs. In this research paper, we solve the task connected to the minimization of earthwork cost by optimizing vertical alignment by the development of linear optimization model with different categories of unknown variables including vertical offsets between road and surface in different points as well as extremum points’ numbers. Proposed linear optimization model is supposed to be implemented with application of simplex method as the component of complex branch and bound approach. The developed model has been implemented on the basis of practical example. After the optimization of vertical alignment, earthwork volumes have been calculated in the road design software with average end area volume calculation method. We also have provided numerical results which include earthwork volumes and cost improvements over preliminary design.

Effiecency criterion for selection of design parameters of aerospace system

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2(99)) ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
D.S. Kalynychenko ◽  
◽  
Ye.Yu. Baranov ◽  
M.V. Poluian ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Parameters ◽  
Selection Of

Safety at Curves and Road Geometry Standards in Some European Countries

1996 ◽  
Vol 1523 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Brenac
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
National Standards ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
The Road ◽  
Horizontal Curves ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Road Geometry ◽  
Design Speed ◽  
Curve Geometry

This paper deals with safety at horizontal curves on two-lane roads outside urban areas and the way the road design standards of different European countries account for this safety aspect. After a review of some research results, the main aspects of curve geometry and the curve's place in the horizontal alignment are analyzed. The main conclusions are that the traditional design speed approach is insufficient and that formal complementary rules in road design standards, especially to improve compatibility between successive elements of the alignment, must be introduced. If such complementary rules already exist in some national standards, they are neither frequent nor homogeneous throughout the different countries, and it seems that they are not based on sufficiently developed knowledge.

scholarly journals The use of cement concrete pavements for roads, depending on climatic conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-240
Author(s):  
Iryna Solonenko
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Road Network ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Rational Selection ◽  
Cement Concrete ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Pavement ◽  
Operational Characteristics ◽  
Selection Of

The development of road network infrastructure is an important component of the economic development of the European Union. Updating of the road network contributes to the integration of the economies of countries into a coherent whole. The road network provides the free movement of citizens, the movement of goods and the effective implementation of various services. The increase in the length of the road network leads to an increase in the financial and material costs necessary to ensure its maintenance and repair. One of the ways to reduce costs is by strengthening the physic-mechanical and operational characteristics of the pavement due to the widespread use of cement concrete. The quality of the pavement of cement concrete depends largely on the rational selection of its composition. This allows a significant increase in the durability of road pavement. The purpose of the research was: the development of recommendations for the rational selection of the composition of the road pavement material of cement concrete, aimed at upgrading longevity, and taking into account its frost resistance grade. According to the goal, the following tasks were developed: the analyses of the climatic zones in which the road network of the European Union is located; the development of a research plan, a selection of the response function and influence factors; the study of physico-mechanical and operational characteristics of the researched material of road pavement; on the basis of the obtained data, the calculation of the complex of experimental-statistical models, which describe the physico-mechanical and operational characteristics of the road pavement material; on the basis of experimental statistical models, a method was proposed for selecting the rational compositions of the cement concrete pavement road material depending on the conditions of its application. The results presented in the article can be used in engineering and scientific practice for the selection of road pavement from cement concrete for highways.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document