Improved Alternative Route Planning

Authors: 
Andreas Paraskevopoulos, Christos Zaroliagis
Publication Date: 
August, 2013
Abstract: 
We present improved methods for computing a set of alternative source-to-destination routes
in road networks in the form of an alternative graph. The resulting alternative graphs are charac-
terized by minimum path overlap, small stretch factor, as well as and low size and complexity. 
Our approach improves upon a previous one by introducing a new pruning stage preceding any 
other heuristic methods and by introducing a new filtering and fine-tuning of two existing 
methods. Our accompanying experimental study shows that the entire alternative graph 
can be computed pretty fast even in continental size networks.
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Publication Details: 
ATMOS 2013