Location of Highway Attributes by Global Positioning Study. Volume 1; Final Report
Advanced Search
Select up to three search categories and corresponding keywords using the fields to the right. Refer to the Help section for more detailed instructions.

Search our Collections & Repository

For very narrow results

When looking for a specific result

Best used for discovery & interchangable words

Recommended to be used in conjunction with other fields

Dates

to

Document Data
Library
People
Clear All
Clear All

For additional assistance using the Custom Query please check out our Help Page

ROSA P serves as an archival repository of USDOT-published products including scientific findings, journal articles, guidelines, recommendations, or other information authored or co-authored by USDOT or funded partners. As a repository, ROSA P retains documents in their original published format to ensure public access to scientific information.
i

Location of Highway Attributes by Global Positioning Study. Volume 1; Final Report

Filetype[PDF-9.16 MB]


Select the Download button to view the document
This document is over 5mb in size and cannot be previewed
English
Details You May Also Like

Details:

  • Creators:
  • Corporate Creators:
    Navstar Mapping Corporation
  • Corporate Contributors:
    South Dakota. Department of Transportation. Office of Research
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Publication/ Report Number:
    SD92-05
  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
  • Edition:
    Final, March 1992 to March, 1993
  • Corporate Publisher:
    South Dakota. Department of Transportation
  • Abstract:
    The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) uses a sign-oriented, link-node signpost location method in which "uniform" Mileage Reference Markers (MRM) are placed at approximate intervals of one mile and "special non-uniform" MRMs are placed at intersections, structures, county lines, municipal and urban limits and at roadway discontinuities. The location of a particular inventoried highway attribute is its displacement, in increments of one thousandth of a mile, from the nearest MRM marker. Two primary objectives were established for this 10-month research project conducted during 1992. The first was to demonstrate how a combination of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and current elapsed-distance technology can be applied within SDDOT to cost-effectively generate geographic coordinates for the existing MRM-based highway attribute data. This process will make the complete MRM attribute database usable in the State's developing Geographic Information System (GIS) applications. This objective was accomplished using a test segment on US Highway 12 in the Aberdeen Region for GPS data collection, and existing MRM-tagged highway attribute data for the test area from a variety of SDDOT sources. Both the GPS data and the GPS-tagged MRM attribute data were imported into the Department's Intergraph GME GIS environment to demonstrate the techniques. This process is summarized in the Research Task 5, 6, 7 and 8 sections of this report. The second objective was to analyze SDDOT application opportunities and prepare a GPS technology implementation plan for consideration by SDDOT management. The results of that analysis and an outline of the implementation plan are described in the Research Task 2, 3, 4 and 9 sections of this report. Task 9 includes the research team's policy and procedures recommendations for a successful implementation within SDDOT. This project has been structured to provide SDDOT with direct and "hands-on" experience with GPS and to validate the use of GPS in South Dakota in SDDOT applications. All program objectives were accomplished.
  • Format:
    PDF
  • Collection(s):
  • Main Document Checksum:
  • Download URL:
  • File Type:

Supporting Files

  • No Additional Files
More +

You May Also Like

Checkout today's featured content at rosap.ntl.bts.gov