Abstract
Highways, railways, canals, tunnels, dams, pipelines, and transmission lines are constructed works having linear shapes classified as routes. A unique system for expressing route geometry has developed that, once learned, can be applied without fail to this broad range of projects by all surveyors, designers, and constructors.
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Kavanagh, B. F. 1989. Surveying with Construction Applications, 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Meyer, C. F., and D. W. Gibson, 1980. Route Surveying and Design, 5th ed. New York: Harper Collins.
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Gibson, D.W. (1995). Route Surveys. In: Brinker, R.C., Minnick, R. (eds) The Surveying Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2067-2_25
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