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Fast Routing in Very Large Public Transportation Networks Using Transfer Patterns

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Fast Routing in Very Large Public Transportation Networks Using Transfer Patterns
We show how to route on very large public transportation networks (up to half a billion arcs) with average query times of a few milliseconds. We take into account many realistic features like: traffic days, walking between stations, queries between geographic locations instead of a source and a target station, and multi-criteria cost functions. Our algorithm is based on two key observations: (1) many shortest paths share the same transfer pattern, i.e., the sequence of stations where a change of vehicle occurs; (2) direct connections without change of vehicle can be looked up quickly. We precompute the respective data; in practice, this can be done in time linear in the network size, at the expense of a small fraction of non-optimal results. We have accelerated public transportation routing on Google Maps with a system based on our ideas. We report experimental results for three data sets of various kinds and sizes.
Hannah Bast, Erik Carlsson, Arno Eigenwillig, Robe
Added 09 Nov 2010
Updated 09 Nov 2010
Type Conference
Year 2010
Where ESA
Authors Hannah Bast, Erik Carlsson, Arno Eigenwillig, Robert Geisberger, Chris Harrelson, Veselin Raychev, Fabien Viger
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