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pgrouting: Geospatial Routing

pgRouting is PostgreSQL and PostGIS extension adding geospatial routing functionality.

The core functionality of pgRouting is a set of path finding algorithms including:

  • All Pairs Shortest Path, Johnson’s Algorithm
  • All Pairs Shortest Path, Floyd-Warshall Algorithm
  • Shortest Path A*
  • Bi-directional Dijkstra Shortest Path
  • Bi-directional A* Shortest Path
  • Shortest Path Dijkstra
  • Driving Distance
  • K-Shortest Path, Multiple Alternative Paths
  • K-Dijkstra, One to Many Shortest Path
  • Traveling Sales Person
  • Turn Restriction Shortest Path (TRSP)

Enable the extension#

  1. Go to the Database page in the Dashboard.
  2. Click on Extensions in the sidebar.
  3. Search for "pgrouting" and enable the extension.

Example#

As an example, we'll solve the traveling salesman problem using the pgRouting's pgr_TSPeuclidean function from some PostGIS coodinates.

A summary of the traveling salesman problem is, given a set of city coordinates, solve for a path that goes through each city and minimizes the total distance traveled.

First we populate a table with some X, Y coordinates


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create table wi29 (
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id bigint,
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x float,
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y float,
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geom geometry
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);
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insert into wi29 (id, x, y)
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values
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(1,20833.3333,17100.0000),
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(2,20900.0000,17066.6667),
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(3,21300.0000,13016.6667),
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(4,21600.0000,14150.0000),
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(5,21600.0000,14966.6667),
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(6,21600.0000,16500.0000),
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(7,22183.3333,13133.3333),
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(8,22583.3333,14300.0000),
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(9,22683.3333,12716.6667),
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(10,23616.6667,15866.6667),
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(11,23700.0000,15933.3333),
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(12,23883.3333,14533.3333),
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(13,24166.6667,13250.0000),
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(14,25149.1667,12365.8333),
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(15,26133.3333,14500.0000),
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(16,26150.0000,10550.0000),
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(17,26283.3333,12766.6667),
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(18,26433.3333,13433.3333),
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(19,26550.0000,13850.0000),
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(20,26733.3333,11683.3333),
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(21,27026.1111,13051.9444),
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(22,27096.1111,13415.8333),
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(23,27153.6111,13203.3333),
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(24,27166.6667,9833.3333),
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(25,27233.3333,10450.0000),
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(26,27233.3333,11783.3333),
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(27,27266.6667,10383.3333),
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(28,27433.3333,12400.0000),
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(29,27462.5000,12992.2222);

Next we use the pgr_TSPeuclidean function to find the best path.


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select
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*
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from
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pgr_TSPeuclidean($$select * from wi29$$)


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seq | node | cost | agg_cost
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-----+------+------------------+------------------
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0
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2 | 2 | 74.535614157127 | 74.535614157127
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3 | 6 | 900.617093380362 | 975.152707537489
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4 | 10 | 2113.77757765045 | 3088.93028518793
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5 | 11 | 106.718669615254 | 3195.64895480319
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6 | 12 | 1411.95293791574 | 4607.60189271893
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7 | 13 | 1314.23824873744 | 5921.84014145637
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8 | 14 | 1321.76283931305 | 7243.60298076942
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9 | 17 | 1202.91366735569 | 8446.5166481251
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10 | 18 | 683.333268292684 | 9129.84991641779
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11 | 15 | 1108.05137466134 | 10237.9012910791
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12 | 19 | 772.082339448903 | 11009.983630528
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13 | 22 | 697.666150054665 | 11707.6497805827
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14 | 23 | 220.141999627513 | 11927.7917802102
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15 | 21 | 197.926372783442 | 12125.7181529937
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16 | 29 | 440.456596290771 | 12566.1747492844
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17 | 28 | 592.939989005405 | 13159.1147382898
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18 | 26 | 648.288376333318 | 13807.4031146231
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19 | 20 | 509.901951359278 | 14317.3050659824
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20 | 25 | 1330.83095428717 | 15648.1360202696
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21 | 27 | 74.535658878487 | 15722.6716791481
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22 | 24 | 559.016994374947 | 16281.688673523
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23 | 16 | 1243.87392358622 | 17525.5625971092
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24 | 9 | 4088.0585364911 | 21613.6211336004
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25 | 7 | 650.85409697993 | 22264.4752305803
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26 | 3 | 891.004385199336 | 23155.4796157796
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27 | 4 | 1172.36699411442 | 24327.846609894
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28 | 8 | 994.708187806297 | 25322.5547977003
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29 | 5 | 1188.01888359478 | 26510.5736812951
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30 | 1 | 2266.91173136004 | 28777.4854126552

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