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Server based route planning in road networks is now powerful enough to find quickest paths in a matter of milliseconds, even if detailed information on time-dependent travel times is taken into account. However this requires huge amounts of memory on each query server and hours of preprocessing even for a medium sized country like Germany. This is a problem since global internet companies would like to work with transcontinental networks, detailed models of intersections, and regular re-preprocessing that takes the current traffic situation into account. By giving a distributed memory parallelization of the arguably best current technique – time-dependent contraction hierarchies, we remove these bottlenecks. For example, on a medium size network 64 processes accelerate preprocessing by a factor of 28 to 160 seconds, reduce per process memory consumption by a factor of 10.5 and increase query throughput by a factor of 25.
Partially supported by DFG grant SA 933/5-1.
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Kieritz, T., Luxen, D., Sanders, P., Vetter, C. (2010). Distributed Time-Dependent Contraction Hierarchies. In: Festa, P. (eds) Experimental Algorithms. SEA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13193-6_8
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