Routing directions: keeping it fast and simple

  • Authors:
  • Dimitris Sacharidis;Panagiotis Bouros

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for the Mgmt. of Information Systems, "Athena" Research Center, Athens, Greece;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The problem of providing meaningful routing directions over road networks is of great importance. In many real-life cases, the fastest route may not be the ideal choice for providing directions in written/spoken text, or for an unfamiliar neighborhood, or in cases of emergency. Rather, it is often more preferable to offer "simple" directions that are easy to memorize, explain, understand or follow. However, there exist cases where the simplest route is considerably longer than the fastest. This paper tries to address this issue, by finding near-simplest routes which are as short as possible and near-fastest routes which are as simple as possible. Particularly, we focus on efficiency, and propose novel algorithms, which are theoretically and experimentally shown to be significantly faster than existing approaches.