LOCAR: local compression of alternative routes

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Schubert;Hans-Peter Kriegel

  • Affiliations:
  • Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany;Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Various routing algorithms compute sets of alternative routes to allow users to select the route appearing to be most attractive. A problem with the result set of this type of solution is that the number of retrieved routes might exceed the number of choices being manageable by a user. In this paper, we address the problem of selecting small sets of routes which still represent the general alternatives. To decide which routes to prune, we employ an error bound on the total cost of two alternatives. Since two routes having approximately the same cost might visit disjunctive parts of the network, pure cost-based pruning might discard important choices. To prevent loosing these alternatives, we define a second criterion based on local invariance. In our experimental setting, we examine run times and compression rates for the case of route skylines in Open Street Map data.