Creation of an Indoor Route Planner for Aiports

Abstract

The main target of the current work is to create an indoor route planner specifically designed for the indoor environment of airports which calculates for the departing passenger a path with intermediate destinations, from entrance over all needed boarding destinations, to the user-relevant gate. Further, the application should provide the option to include additional passenger-preferred tasks into the path, as e.g. to have a café or to go to the toilet. This resulted, besides a suggestion for the system architecture, in a theoretical setup of a hierarchical, directed, accessibility routing graph with partially airport-specific semantics and two path finding algorithms which consider on the one hand boarding destinations in the correct sequence as well as user preferred additional intermediate destinations. Furthermore, vertical passages are considered in the network construction approach as well as in the path finding algorithms.