Computers & Geosciences - Special issue on GIS design models
Metamodelig architectures and interoperability of web-enabled information systems
Web-enabled systems integration
Hierarchical lane-oriented 3D road-network model
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Designing Road Maintenance Data Model Using Dynamic Segmentation Technique
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part I
Specifying essential features of street networks
COSIT'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Spatial information theory
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Networks can be used as a model for the representation and analysis of the physical world. Traditional GIS data models need to be improved if GIS is to be more suitable for network modeling. This paper proposes a feature-based object-oriented data model for transportation networks. It breaks the limitations of the arc-node planar graph model in feature description and topology expression of complicated networks. The basic classes in the data model are explicitly defined. The difference and relationship between physical networks and virtual networks, and the topology representation in virtual networks are discussed. An object-oriented network analysis method is used to construct virtual networks over physical networks in order to make abstract networks more suitable for analysis, and includes a detailed example of a multi-modal traffic network.