On a Technique for Finding Running Tracks of Specific Length in a Road Network

David Willems (), Oliver Zehner and Stefan Ruzika
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David Willems: University of Koblenz-Landau
Oliver Zehner: University of Koblenz-Landau
Stefan Ruzika: TU Kaiserslautern

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2017, 2018, pp 333-338 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Inner-city sports events such as skate nights, company races or bicycle races often take place on circular courses. Regular streets are blocked for normal traffic and only released for the active participants of the event. Often, the participants start and end at the same point. We present an algorithm to find running tracks of prespecified length in a general road network. This constitutes a simplification tool in the decision making process of finding adequate running tracks as the algorithm returns a number of possibilities from which organizers are able to choose the track that meets most requirements desired by the organizer. The returned solutions can further be used as input to additional (mulicriteria) optimization problems as, for example, finding tracks that do not exceed a given limit on the altitude difference or that avoid street turns that are to sharp.

Keywords: OR in sports; Combinatorial optimization; Routing problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89920-6_45

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