Making domain-specific automotive engineering road space data in OpenDRIVE available for GIS

Kurzfassung

Governmental institutions and academia show increasing interest in OpenDRIVE road data for mobility simulation, urban planning and Infrastructure maintenance. The current lack of integration into popular geographic information systems (GIS) significantly limits the interoperability of OpenDRIVE for public application. We developed an open-source driver for the popular Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) which transforms OpenDRIVE into common GIS data formats and thus makes it comfortably usable in standard GIS applications. This approach is easily applicable to other transportation domains such as railway systems where infrastructure is often modelled in railML.