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Filtering and clustering are common methods to extract pedestrians and vehicles from point clouds. This kind of method ignores the impact of environmental information on traffic. The segmentation process is a crucial part of detailed scene understanding, which could be especially helpful for locating, recognizing, and classifying objects in certain scenarios. However, there are few studies on the segmentation of low-channel (16 channels in this paper) roadside 3D LiDAR. This paper presents a novel segmentation (slice-based) method for point clouds of roadside LiDAR. The proposed method can be divided into two parts: the instance segmentation part and semantic segmentation part. The part of the instance segmentation of point cloud is based on the regional growth method, and we proposed a seed point generation method for low-channel LiDAR data. Furthermore, we optimized the instance segmentation effect under occlusion. The part of semantic segmentation of a point cloud is realized by classifying and labeling the objects obtained by instance segmentation. For labeling static objects, we represented and classified a certain object through the related features derived from its slices. For labeling moving objects, we proposed a recurrent neural network (RNN)-based model, of which the accuracy could be up to 98.7%. 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