Preferred Truck Routes Meet Navigation

Many routes taken by truck drivers are suggested by navigation devices. These navigation devices do not always consider the needs of trucks. This leads to substantial problems in cities, such as trucks colliding with low bridges or taking unsuitable routes via the city centre or residential areas. This paper describes the steps required to integrate communal routing preferences and interests into navigation systems. It shows (1) which rules have to be considered when developing a concept for preferred routes and (2) what the consequences are for system design. All project stages are shown. This includes implementing the preferred truck routing concept, extracting the common construction rules for modelling preference networks, consolidating the findings from the process, and building a realistic, working navigation system that has implemented the technology. Besides the pure feasibility aspects, the project shows strategies for integrating communal routing preferences into common navigation systems.