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An object-oriented approach to transport modelling: Software development to calculate road traffic noise

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A framework for developing object-oriented software in transport modelling in proposed and demonstrated with the implementation of the calculation of road traffic noise (CORTN). Major tasks in the life cycle of an object-oriented development process are identified, and illustrated with the implementation of TRANSOOP – a software library containing 33,000 lines of C++ programming code. Software re-use from this library to produce a object-oriented noise program is compared with conventional computer programming shows that almost 90 per cent of the lines of code were drawn from TRANSOOP. Advantages of the object-oriented approach are discussed.

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  1. Institute of Transport Studies, University of Syndey, NSW, 2006, Australia

    T.T. Ton

  2. Department of Transport Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia (e-mail

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Ton, T., Black, J. & Vandebona, U. An object-oriented approach to transport modelling: Software development to calculate road traffic noise. Transportation 25, 307–328 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005047502222

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