• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: Routing in Stochastic Public Transit Networks
  • Contributor: Geissmann, Barbara [Author]; Gianinazzi, Lukas [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2019.4
  • Keywords: Temporal Graphs ; Route Planning ; Public Transit Network
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  • Description: We present robust, adaptive routing policies for time-varying networks (temporal graphs) in the presence of random edge-failures. Such a policy answers the following question: How can a traveler navigate a time-varying network where edges fail randomly in order to maximize the traveler’s preference with respect to the arrival time? Our routing policy is computable in near-linear time in the number of edges in the network (for the case when the edges fail independently of each other). Using our robust routing policy, we show how to travel in a public transit network where the vehicles experience delays. To validate our approach, we present experiments using real-world delay data from the public transit network of the city of Zurich. Our experiments show that we obtain significantly improved outcomes compared to a purely schedule-based policy: The traveler is on time 5-11 percentage points more often for most destinations and 20-40 percentage points more often for certain remote destinations. Our implementation shows that the approach is fast enough for real-time usage. It computes a policy for 1-hour long journeys in around 0.1 seconds.
  • Access State: Open Access