I have a road network shapefile for a US state and I am trying to derive the radius of curvature for road segments in this shapefile. I need to be able to perform this task within just a few functions for thousands of road segments.
The road segments vary between 0.2 miles and maybe 5 or so miles. Each segment has several curves, but I am only interested in curves small enough to force a vehicle to make a reasonable turn. This should reduce the number of curves of interest per segment to a max of 1 or 2, with many segments not having such curves at all. I have not determined the maximum radius of the curve (the threshold) I would like to use.
For segments with only 1 such curve, I would like to obtain the values of those curves for those segments, and for those with more than 1, an average will do.
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