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Passengers of a public transportation system are often forced to change their planned route due to deviation in travel times. Rerouting is mostly done by simple means such as announcements. We introduce a model, in which the passenger computes his optimal route on his mobile device in a given subnetwork according to the actual travel times. Those travel times are sent to him as soon as a delay occurs.
The main focus of this paper is on the calculation of a small subnetwork. This subnetwork shall contain for every realization of travel times a shortest path of the original network and minimize the number of arcs. For this so called \(\textsc{Exact Subgraph Recoverable Robust Shortest Path}\) problem we introduce an approximation algorithm with an approximation factor of \(\frac{m}{\ell}\), for any fixed constant ℓ ∈ ℕ. This is the best possible approximation factor for the interval- and the Γ-scenario case, in which all realizations of travel times are given indirectly by lower and upper bounds on the arc cost. Unless P = NP, for those two scenario sets the problems is not approximable with a factor better than m (1 − ε), where m is the number of arcs in the given graph and ε> 0.
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Büsing, C. (2009). The Exact Subgraph Recoverable Robust Shortest Path Problem. In: Ahuja, R.K., Möhring, R.H., Zaroliagis, C.D. (eds) Robust and Online Large-Scale Optimization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5868. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05465-5_9
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