xRoute2: how to determine (inofficial) tollDistance/Country?

[Bernd Welter]

Cheerio,

these days a partner asked me how to determine the toll distance per country in xRoute2.
What he encountered was that the Toll and it's list of TollSections does not always contain an "officialDistance".

TollSections with the official distance (Germany only), though all the three countries return toll prices...

TollSections.PNG (7.91 KiB) Viewed 9666 times

Therefore it would be necessary to aggregate some other output element's distance values:

• Request both the CountryEvents and TollEvents

  

  RouteEvents

• Iterate over the events and "memorize" the current country
• Collect corresponding ENTER and EXIT TollEvents based on the AccessTypes

  

  TollEvents

• Determine the length of these "inofficial" toll sections by subtracting ExitEvent.distanceFromStart-EnterEvent.distanceFromStart

  

  Computed distances...

  Aggregated.PNG (4.43 KiB) Viewed 9666 times

• Aggregate them on the level you want...
  • per country as a whole
  • per country each time you enter it
  • in total

This should work fine. Here's an example based on a route "DE-Karlsruhe" =>"FR-Paris"=>>"ES-Madrid". Be aware that only Germany supports the exact toll. France and Spain are computed by the logic I recommended above.

Best regards,
Bernd