Fast paths in large-scale dynamic road networks

  • Authors:
  • Giacomo Nannicini;Philippe Baptiste;Gilles Barbier;Daniel Krob;Leo Liberti

  • Affiliations:
  • LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France 91128 and Mediamobile, Paris, France;LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France 91128;Mediamobile, Paris, France;LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France 91128;LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France 91128

  • Venue:
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Efficiently computing fast paths in large-scale dynamic road networks (where dynamic traffic information is known over a part of the network) is a practical problem faced by traffic information service providers who wish to offer a realistic fast path computation to GPS terminal enabled vehicles. The heuristic solution method we propose is based on a highway hierarchy-based shortest path algorithm for static large-scale networks; we maintain a static highway hierarchy and perform each query on the dynamically evaluated network, using a simple algorithm to propagate available dynamic traffic information over a larger part of the road network. We provide computational results that show the efficacy of our approach.