if it was designed as follows: Nodes for each junction, block transition and station


This design would be useless. Nodes would then be required to have their own enter/exit direction and edges would be required to hold extra informations about which segment they are referring. 2 junctions ...

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This topic connects to the Friday Facts #331. I'm currently finishing my computer science master specializing at route planning algorithms. It was quite interesting to read the post, since it answered a few questions that already came to my mind, but it also rose a few new ones ...