Abstract

Use of Network Analyst for Web-Based Bicycle Trip-Planning Applications
Track: Transportation
Authors: Hartwig Hochmair, Jennifer Fu

To promote the use of bicycles as alternative means of transportation, Palm-Beach County MPO funded the development of a Web-based trip planner for cyclists.
This online trip planner, which is developed within the ArcGIS Server environment using ESRI JavaScript API and the ArcGIS JavaScript extension for the Google Maps API, offers several routing options, including shortest, fastest, and simplest route. The computations are achieved through the ArcGIS Network Analyst extension with customized turn tables and network data from NAVTEQ's Navstreets dataset. This presentation demonstrates among others how restricted driving maneuvers (i.e., turn restrictions) and traffic lights were integrated into the routing algorithm and the Network dataset through ArcObjects programming. It also presents some of the Google mashup GIS functionality used, such as Street View, which is provided as a function to virtually follow the computed route. A live demonstration of the online bicycle trip planner will be given.