Moving Walkways, Escalators, and Elevators
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چکیده
We study a simple geometric model of transportation facility that consists of two points between which the travel speed is high. This elementary definition can model shuttle services, tunnels, bridges, teleportation devices, escalators or moving walkways. The travel time between a pair of points is defined as a time distance, in such a way that a customer uses the transportation facility only if it is helpful. We give algorithms for finding the optimal location of such a transportation facility, where optimality is defined with respect to the maximum travel time between two points in a given set.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/0705.0635 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007