[OSRM-talk] OSRM / traffic

[Julien Coupey]

Hi there,

Thanks both for the question and the answer.

Taking real-time traffic into account is obsiously a tricky feature, but 
what about using some kind of "average known speeds" on specific 
portions, perhaps depending of the time of day (those might be collected 
from gps traces or maybe infered on some portions of the network). This 
approach would provide more realistic timing estimations while only 
requiring point 1. of your development roadmap.

Also, it would really make sense to rely on average timings when 
planning routes ahead (this is what I use OSRM for), as no real-time 
information can be accessed anyway.

Best,
Julien

Le 28/08/2015 11:29, Patrick Niklaus a écrit :
> Our approach to support traffic in the future is two-fold:
>
> 1. Make CH pre-processing fast enough so that you can do traffic on
> smaller extracts.
> 2. Change the routing algorithm to a technique that supports fast updates.
>
> 1. is currently being worked on. You can try the
> `feature/traffic_data` branch. This is very much WIP. For one there is
> no documentation of how to use it yet and I doubt you have data in a
> suitable format lying around.
>
> 2. is a big push. ETA on a first candidate is some time next year.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Patrick
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:42 AM,  <quarkx at no-log.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Do you plan to include traffic  in OSRM ?
>> I was wondering if it was possible, because of your use of CH algorithm,
>> which seems not to be the most suitable for traffic.
>>
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