All roads lead to the places of your interest: An on-demand, ride-sharing visitor transport service

Zheng, W.; Zhuang, X.; Liao, Z.; Li, M.; Lin, Z.

Abstract

Successful visitor transport within large tourist sites should balance visitor experience and operating costs. Inspired by the model of sharing economy, we design a “user-centered” intelligent visitor transport system to improve the efficiency and quality of experience of transport service in large tourist sites. The system’s core approach is a three-stage heuristic model based on Pareto optimality. Results of the proposed service indicate a drastic reduction of visitor delay time and an improvement in energy efficiency. The proposed scheduling schemes for organizers are more diversified and adaptable than the existing service.

Citation

Zheng, W., Zhuang, X., Liao, Z., Li, M., & Lin, Z. (2021). All roads lead to the places of your interest: An on-demand, ride-sharing visitor transport service. International Journal of Tourism Research, 23(5), 871-880. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2449

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 15, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Mar 31, 2021
• Publication Date: Sep 13, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 16, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 31, 2023
• Journal: International Journal of Tourism Research
• Print ISSN: 1099-2340
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 871-880
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2449
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1250960