Constructing optimal highways

  • Authors:
  • Hee-Kap Ahn;Helmut Alt;Tetsuo Asano;Sang Won Bae;Peter Brass;Otfried Cheong;Christian Knauer;Hyeon-Suk Na;Chan-Su Shin;Alexander Wolff

  • Affiliations:
  • Sejong University, Seoul, Korea;Freie Universität Berlin, Germany;Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan;Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea;City College of New York;Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea;Freie Universität Berlin, Germany;Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea;Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Korea;Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CATS '07 Proceedings of the thirteenth Australasian symposium on Theory of computing - Volume 65
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

For two points p and q in the plane, a (unbounded) line h, called a highway, and a real v 1, we define the travel time (also known as the city distance) from p and q to be the time needed to traverse a quickest path from p to q, where the distance is measured with speed v on h and with speed 1 in the underlying metric elsewhere. Given a set S of n points in the plane and a high-way speed v, we consider the problem of finding an axis-parallel line, the highway, that minimizes the maximum travel time over all pairs of points in S. We achieve a linear-time algorithm both for the L1- and the Euclidean metric as the underlying metric. We also consider the problem of computing an optimal pair of highways, one being horizontal, one vertical.