Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.

Overview of highway location and alignment optimization problem: Introduction -- Highway cost and constraints -- Review of artificial intelligence-based models for optimizing highway location and alignment design -- Highway alignment optimization with genetic algorithms: Modeling highway alignments with genetic algorithms -- Highway alignment optimization formulation -- Constraint handling for evolutionary algorithms -- Highway alignment optimization through feasible gates -- Prescreening and repairing in highway alignment optimization -- Optimizing simple highway networks: An extension of genetic algorithms-based highway alignment optimization: Overview of discrete network design problem -- Bi-level highway alignment optimization within a small highway network -- Bi-level HAO model application example -- Highway alignment optimization model applications and extensions: HAO model application in Maryland Brookeville bypass project -- HAO model application in US 220 project -- HAO model application in Maryland ICC project -- Related developments and extensions.