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Reconstructing Highway A2 in the Netherlands in X3D
The traffic situation in the Nederland’s, one of Europe’s most crowded country is critical, and the road authorities need to solve this situation as efficiently as possible. This implies using efficient communications tools to address the affected parties. The road connecting Amsterdam and Utrecht, the A2, will be expanded in the time period from 2006 to 2010. During these four years the road will be widened from today’s situation with 2x3 lanes to 2x5 lanes. PSI Bouw, the main contractor for this project, wanted to show how the construction process would influence people living along the A2 highway.
One of the main challenges for Octaga during the visualization of the A2 building process was to make complex geometry run on various computer hardware. With the use of advanced LOD technology - geometry is automatically loaded and unloaded from memory, keeping polycount low while streaming only relevant geometry data to the client computer. An advanced 3D map was added to help user navigation by offering functionality as current avatar position, hot-spots, and different viewpoint tours. The solution will be publicly available during Q2 2007.