PLOTS: pattern languages of transport systems
- Route Pattern -
Ted Foster (CSC Ltd and Reading University, UK) and
Liping Zhao (RMIT, Australia)

Abstract
A route is a path through an ordered sequence of points in a transport
network. A route may build upon different layers of components. The
Route pattern provides a consistent tree structure for layering and
ordering the route components. Route can cope with many variations in
defining routes and allows clients to treat all objects used for route
definition uniformly. Route is a pattern in PLOTS. PLOTS is a set of
pattern languages for building transport systems. This paper shows
Route is used to provide a design solution to constructing transport
routes and how Route interacts with other patterns in PLOTS. 

Contact:
Dr Liping Zhao
Department of Computer Science
RMIT, Bundoora
Victoria, 3083
Australia
Email: liping@cs.rmit.edu.au
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