ROADENTS (ROAd DEsigN Testing Software)
department or school: Arts and Sciences, Irving K. Barber School of (Okanagan)
department or school: Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Amirsadri, Shima
issued: 2020-04-10T07:00:00Z
issued: 2019
related degree: Master of Science - MSc
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Vertical Alignment (VA) optimization refers to the problem of finding the minimum cost of earthwork while satisfying VA design constraints. Even though we have many VA methods, there is no software or program to automatically check whether their output is as expected or not. In this thesis, we introduce a software package, called ROADENTS (ROAd DEsigN Testing Software), that can validate the output of a VA technique on simple quadratic artificial roads. Here, we test the output of Quasi Network Flow (QNF), Multi-haul Quasi Network Flow (MQNF) and Softree API (V2) using ROADENTS. Moreover, generating ground profiles with different characteristics can be a painstaking task, especially when we have to build a myriad of ground profiles. To tackle this problem, we incorporate a software component in ROADENTS that can produce different types of ground profiles, ranging from single-segment to sophisticated multi-segment ground profiles. Using this, researchers can generate thousands of quadratic ground profiles in just a few seconds. ROADENTS is not only a VA model checker or a ground profile generator, but also a VA visualizer, and a .CSV area converter. In the road design world, every VA model accepts a ground profile in a different format. Utilizing ROADENTS, users can convert the format of the ground profiles into the desired format very quickly and efficiently.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/72066
note: ROADENTS (ROAd DEsigN Testing Software)byShima AmirsadriB.Sc., Islamic Azad University, 2008M.Sc., University of Kashan, 2014A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OFTHE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFMASTER OF SCIENCEinThe College of Graduate Studies(Computer Science)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Okanagan)October 2019© Shima Amirsadri, 2019The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommendto the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation en-titled:ROADENTS (ROAd DEsigN Testing Software)submitted by Shima Amirsadri in partial fulfilment of the requirements of thedegree of Master of ScienceDr. Yves Lucet, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and ScienceSupervisorDr. Warren Hare, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and ScienceCo-supervisorDr. Solomon Tesfamariam, School of EngineeringSupervisory Committee MemberDr. Gordon Lovegrove, School of EngineeringUniversity ExamineriiAbstractVertical Alignment (VA) optimization refers to the problem of findingthe minimum cost of earthwork while satisfying VA design constraints. Eventhough we have many VA methods, there is no software or program toautomatically check whether their output is as expected or not. In thisthesis, we introduce a software package, called Roadents (ROAd DEsigNTesting Software), that can validate the output of a VA technique on simplequadratic artificial roads. Here, we test the output of Quasi Network Flow(QNF), Multi-haul Quasi Network Flow (MQNF) and Softree API (V2)using Roadents.Moreover, generating ground profiles with different characteristics canbe a painstaking task, especially when we have to build a myriad of groundprofiles. To tackle this problem, we incorporate a software component inRoadents that can produce different types of ground profiles, ranging fromsingle-segment to sophisticated multi-segment ground profiles. Using this,researchers can generate thousands of quadratic ground profiles in just a fewseconds.Roadents is not only a VA model checker o…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2019-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0384514
language: eng
degree discipline: Computer Science
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
type: Moving Image
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72066