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SPATIOTEMPORAL OBJECT DATABASE APPROACH TO DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION

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00965458

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Abstract:

Dynamic segmentation is viewed as one of the most important functions of geographic information systems for transportation applications. Although the road network and associated events (e.g., pavement material, traffic volume, incidents) can be referenced to both space and time, the spatial and temporal dimensions have not been well integrated. Modeling space-varying, time-varying, and space-time-varying events in dynamic segmentation by using an object database approach that is in line with the Object Database Management Group standard is explored. A mechanism called parametric polymorphism is used to lift conventional data types to spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal types for maintaining knowledge about events that could change spatially, temporally, and spatiotemporally along linear features. An associated object query language, DS-OQL, was designed to support the formulation of spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal queries on the road and event information.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1836, Initiatives in Information Technology and Geospatial Science for Transportation.

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Authors:

Huang, Biao
Yao, Liya

Pagination:

p. 118-125

Publication Date:

2003

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1836
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309085721

Features:

Figures (4) ; References (20) ; Tables (1)

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Nov 7 2003 12:00AM

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