Routedirected
Routedirected is a concept in routing theory and navigation systems describing a class of routing methods that generate routes with a directional bias toward a target or along a predefined field of directions. The term fuses route planning with directedness to denote that each decision point prefers steps aligned with an overall travel direction, rather than purely shortest distance.
In routedirected approaches, the network is augmented with a directional constraint or potential field. This field
Implementation typically involves modifying the evaluation of candidate steps. Algorithms such as route-directed variants of Dijkstra
Applications span autonomous navigation, drone and vehicle routing, and communication networks where directionality is important—such as
Limitations include potential suboptimality and susceptibility to local minima if the direction field is poorly designed.