Advancing Transportation Routing Decisions Using Riemannian Manifold Surfaces

Table 3

Notations.

	Manifold surface
	Origin on
	Destination on
	Predetermined neighborhood of that contains both and
	Maximum distance from the origin, , to the boundary of
	Radius of LCM circles
	An initially chosen constant radius determined by the decision maker (s)
	The geodesic identified with radius
	The LCM circle that contains the geodesic
	Number of LCM circles with radius that covers
	A constant that is used to increment the radius of a LCM circle
	Set of geodesics
	Set of all vectors with each vector containing a geodesic, length of the geodesic, and the LCM circle that contains the geodesic
	Set of linked list vectors formed by the geodesics