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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W6-2025-201-2025</article-id>
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<article-title>From point clouds to CityGML 3.0: An approach to multi-granular urban road modelling</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tsiranidou</surname>
<given-names>Elisavet</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Agugiaro</surname>
<given-names>Giorgio</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2611-4650</ext-link>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fernández</surname>
<given-names>Antonio</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Díaz Vilariño</surname>
<given-names>Lucía</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2382-9431</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>CINTECX, Universidade de Vigo, GeoTECH group, 36310 Vigo, Spain</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>3D Geoinformation group, Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>18</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>X-4/W6-2025</volume>
<fpage>201</fpage>
<lpage>208</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Elisavet Tsiranidou et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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<p>Accurate semantic modelling of urban road infrastructure is critical for digital twins, traffic simulations, and smart city planning. This study presents a structured methodology to transform road elements segmented from urban point clouds into CityGML 3.0-compliant representations. Leveraging CityGML&amp;rsquo;s hierarchical Transportation module, the approach introduces a multi-level granularity framework&amp;mdash;&lt;em&gt;area&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;lane&lt;/em&gt;&amp;mdash;for representing road components like sidewalks, driving lanes, and parking areas. Following geometric pre-processing, segmented surfaces are semantically mapped into appropriate CityGML classes using a rule-based mapping strategy, enriched with descriptive attributes and hierarchical identifiers. The resulting XML-based datasets were validated and visualized using industry-standard tools such as FME, QGIS, and 3DCityDB, demonstrating successful integration into city-scale digital environments.</p>
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