Graph Indexing of Road Networks for Shortest Path Queries with Label Restrictions

This group has captured the technical details of the paper on “Graph indexing of road networks for shortest path queries with label restrictions” in their review. The reviewers have identified the problem, author is trying to solve in this paper and the challenges involved in it. The reviewers have presented the importance of this problem by some good real life examples related to logistics and travel (some taken from paper and some of reviewers own). The reviewers have missed some points while highlighting contributions in this paper (please see Improvements section). The explanation of the presented concepts such as kleene language and contaction hierarchies are explained well. Also reviewers are successful in explaining the approach with the help of working example. Overall this review is good and captures the essence of the paper but it needs few improvement/modification in writing and analysis of the paper. The specific improvements are listed in next section.