Transportation GIS and its application in ITS

Author: Wang Yingjie / Yuan Kansheng / Li Tianwen
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book is divided into 6 chapters, systematically explaining the fundamental issues of transportation GIS. Chapter 1 discusses basic concepts such as information, geographic information, transportation geographic information, GIS, transportation GIS, and the National Spatial Information Infrastructure. Chapter 2 covers the foundational theories of transportation GIS, including basic knowledge of computers and geographic information science, geographic spatial positioning, geographic information classification and coding, spatial data structures and models. Chapter 3 introduces technical methods of transportation GIS, including data acquisition, spatial databases, thematic mapping, geographic information processing and transmission. Chapter 4 presents spatial analysis models of transportation GIS, such as graphic measurement, overlay analysis, buffer analysis, digital terrain analysis, geographic correlation, and network analysis. Chapter 5 discusses issues related to transportation spatial network modeling based on transportation characteristics and object-oriented methods, multi-scale data modeling of road networks, and spatiotemporal modeling of transportation networks. Chapter 6 introduces the application of GIS and GPS in intelligent transportation, including integrated applications in vehicle self-navigation, network monitoring, and intelligent public transportation systems. This book can serve as a reference and training textbook for leaders, cadres, technical personnel, and teachers in government departments, relevant enterprises and institutions, and scientific research and teaching units in the field of transportation. It can also be used as a textbook for senior undergraduate elective courses and graduate studies in universities and colleges related to transportation, systems science and engineering, and information management with GIS.