Velocities of cars, bikes etc

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1

How are the max velocities of vehicles defined? I am using a osm.pbf file and for example a car. Are the calculated distances and travel times equivalent to me driving according to speed limits on empty roads?

2

the road types come from the OSM map, but each vehicle type defines its own flagEncoder and in it a mapping from road types to velocities. Look at eg routing.utils.CarFlagEncoder.java and

defaultSpeedMap.put("motorway", 100);
defaultSpeedMap.put("motorway_link", 70);
defaultSpeedMap.put("motorroad", 90);
// bundesstraße
defaultSpeedMap.put("trunk", 70);
defaultSpeedMap.put("trunk_link", 65);
// linking bigger town
defaultSpeedMap.put("primary", 65);
defaultSpeedMap.put("primary_link", 60);
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Please note, that the average speed does not directly map to the maximum speed and if there is an explicit maxspeed sign it will be involved in the calculation.

4

but the defaultSpeedMap determines the value returned by getSpeed, right? Can’t find the code that responds to maxspeed in OSM file…

protected double getSpeed(ReaderWay way) {
        String highwayValue = way.getTag("highway");
        if (!Helper.isEmpty(highwayValue) && way.hasTag("motorroad", "yes")
                && highwayValue != "motorway" && highwayValue != "motorway_link") {
            highwayValue = "motorroad";
        }
        Integer speed = defaultSpeedMap.get(highwayValue);
        if (speed == null)
            throw new IllegalStateException(toString() + ", no speed found for: " + highwayValue + ", tags: " + way);

        if (highwayValue.equals("track")) {
            String tt = way.getTag("tracktype");
            if (!Helper.isEmpty(tt)) {
                Integer tInt = trackTypeSpeedMap.get(tt);
                if (tInt != null)
                    speed = tInt;
            }
        }

        return speed;
    }
5

Ups, yes. So the map is already the average speed. But can be changed due to maxspeed tags:

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