access icon free Computing journey start times with recurrent traffic conditions

In this study, the authors discuss the effective usage of technology to solve the problem of deciding on journey start times for recurrent traffic conditions. The developed algorithm guides the vehicles to travel on more reliable routes that are not easily prone to congestion or travel delays, ensures that the start time is as late as possible to avoid the traveller waiting too long at their destination and attempts to minimise the travel time. Experiments show that in order to be more certain of reaching their destination on time, a traveller has to leave early and correspondingly arrive early, resulting in a large waiting time. The application developed here asks the user to set this certainty factor as per the task in hand, and computes the best start time and route.

Inspec keywords: traffic information systems; road traffic; vehicle routing

Other keywords: reliable routes; journey start times; recurrent traffic conditions; travel delays; certainty factor; traveller

Subjects: Traffic engineering computing

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