Mobile Route Planning

  • Authors:
  • Peter Sanders;Dominik Schultes;Christian Vetter

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

We provide an implementation of an exact route planning algorithm on a mobile device that answers shortest-path queries in a road network of a whole continent instantaneously, i.e., with a delay of about 100 ms which is virtually not observable for a human user. Our main algorithmic contribution of is a highly compressed blocked representation of the underlying hierarchical graph and a new fast yet compact route reconstruction data structure. Our representation exploits the locality properties of the graph using a very simple algorithm that does not use any a priori information.