Title
Highway Dimension, Shortest Paths, and Provably Efficient Algorithms
Abstract
Computing driving directions has motivated many shortest path heuristics that answer queries on continental scale networks, with tens of millions of intersections, literally instantly, and with very low storage overhead. In this paper we complement the experimental evidence with the first rigorous proofs of efficiency for many of the heuristics suggested over the past decade. We introduce the notion of highway dimension and show how low highway dimension gives a unified explanation for several seemingly different algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.5555/1873601.1873665
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
Keywords
Field
DocType
provably efficient algorithm,different algorithm,low highway dimension,past decade,answer query,computing driving direction,experimental evidence,shortest path heuristics,continental scale network,low storage overhead,highway dimension,shortest path
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Shortest path problem,Computer science,Algorithm,Contraction hierarchies,Heuristics,Mathematical proof,K shortest path routing
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
135
978-0-89871-698-6
66
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.88
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ittai Abraham1148389.62
Amos Fiat23977685.20
Andrew V. Goldberg35883676.30
Renato F. Werneck4174384.33