Yet how does all of this seemingly magical route planning technology work? It’s often assumed that Dijkstra’s algorithm, or the A* graph traversal algorithm is used, but the reality is that ...

to analyze his routes. The algorithm reduced his fleet from 41 to around 32 snowplows, where each route has a two-hour maximum. If one driver called out that day, Nason can also redistribute that ...

Imagine you are using the European transportation network and looking for the fastest and cheapest route to move as many goods as possible from Copenhagen to Milan. Kyng's algorithm can be applied ...

But “best” is a slippery concept. Perhaps one day there’s an accident or road closure, and your fastest route becomes the slowest. Scenarios like this are also a challenge for researchers who develop ...

So instead of finding exact solutions, computer scientists have developed algorithms that calculate optimal routes, ones that may not be the shortest but are probably within a few percent of that. But ...