Time-Dependent SHARC-Routing

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Delling

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany 76128

  • Venue:
  • ESA '08 Proceedings of the 16th annual European symposium on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

During the last years, many speed-up techniques for Dijkstra's algorithm have been developed. As a result, computing a shortest path in a staticroad network is a matter of microseconds. However, only few of those techniques work in time-dependentnetworks. Unfortunately, such networks appear frequentely in reality: Roads are predictably congestured by traffic jams, and efficient timetable information systems rely on time-dependent networks. Hence, a fast technique for routing in such networks is needed. In this work, we present an exacttime-dependent speed-up technique based on our recent SHARC-algorithm. As a result, we are able to efficiently compute shortest paths in time-dependent continental-sized transportation networks, both of roads and of railways.