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Engineering Graph-Based Models for Dynamic Timetable Information Systems

Authors Alessio Cionini, Gianlorenzo D'Angelo, Mattia D'Emidio, Daniele Frigioni, Kalliopi Giannakopoulou, Andreas Paraskevopoulos, Christos Zaroliagis

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  • Timetabling
  • dynamic updates
  • queries
  • shortest paths

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Abstract

Many efforts have been done in the last years to model public transport timetables in order to find optimal routes. The proposed models can be classified into two types: those representing the timetable as an array, and those representing it as a graph. The array-based models have been shown to be very effective in terms of query time, while the graph-based models usually answer queries by computing shortest paths, and hence they are suitable to be used in combination with speed-up techniques developed for road networks.

In this paper, we focus on the dynamic behavior of graph-based models considering the case where transportation systems are subject to delays with respect to the given timetable. We make three contributions: (i) we give a simplified and optimized update routine for the well-known time-expanded model along with an engineered query algorithm; (ii) we propose a new graph-based model tailored for handling dynamic updates; (iii) we assess the effectiveness of the proposed models and algorithms by an experimental study, which shows that both models require negligible update time and a query time which is comparable to that required by some array-based models.

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Alessio Cionini, Gianlorenzo D'Angelo, Mattia D'Emidio, Daniele Frigioni, Kalliopi Giannakopoulou, Andreas Paraskevopoulos, and Christos Zaroliagis. Engineering Graph-Based Models for Dynamic Timetable Information Systems. In 14th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 42, pp. 46-61, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2014.46

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Alessio Cionini
Gianlorenzo D'Angelo
Mattia D'Emidio
Daniele Frigioni
Kalliopi Giannakopoulou
Andreas Paraskevopoulos
Christos Zaroliagis

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