[Routing] Introducing "noise" when routing

Jon Bright jon at siliconcircus.com
Tue Mar 4 10:01:27 GMT 2008


Marcus Wolschon wrote:
> 
> sounds interesting.
> Do you suggest doing that with or without leaving the
> current road-category? I am thinking about things like
> telling the driver to move from a primary-road, to a
> residential and that wait 10min for a free slot to
> join the same primary-road later on again. Clearly in
> such a case the driver would throw away his routing-system.

Such a case should be covered by the heuristic - it should come out more 
than 1% "longer".

I personally think that this problem will be solved by the availability 
of more traffic information.  www.ruhrpilot.de is already adding lots of 
traffic-measuring masts on non-motorway roads in my area, for example.

-- 
Jon Bright
Silicon Circus Ltd.
http://www.siliconcircus.com




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