A tourist’s cultural construction of nature can shape their sports experience. It also impact how they perceive the destinations where engage in sports. This ethnography identifies international tourists on a surfing trip Australia draw knowledge to assign meaning experiences and surroundings. The experience is influenced by three types applied nature: declarative, evaluative, procedural. Inter...

In this paper we use Twitter data and a recently developed algorithm at the University of California Santa Barbara to extract Origin-Destination pairs in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area known as the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region. This algorithm contains two steps: individual-based trajectory detection and place-based trip aggregation. In essence, if a pe...

Implementing decision support technologies in a real commercial tourism destination portal is challenging. First of all, the peculiar problems related to the tourism domain, which have been studied in the recent years in eCommerce and tourism research, must be considered. But, to provide an effective and useful tool, one must tackle additional requirements arising from the technical and operati...

Travel demand is well announced as a crucial component of transportation planning. This paper aims to develop a direct demand model, denoting a more acceptable abstraction of reality, for intercity passengers in daily work and leisure trips in Tehran province. The model utilizes combined estimation across the data source, collected in 2011, of travelers originating from ...

Guiding vehicles to their destination under dynamic traffic conditions is an important topic in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Nowadays, many complex systems can be controlled by using multi agent systems. Adaptation with the current condition is an important feature of the agents. In this research, formulation of dynamic guidance for vehicles has been investigated based...

between the first origin and the last destination. Many shipments travel by longer, less direct routes. Most available data on commodity shipments within a single country identify the first origins and the last destinations but not any transshipment points along the way. The Commercial Vehicle Survey, provided by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Canada, proved to have particularly use...

The present paper demonstrates that treating multidestination trips (MDT) as single-destination trips does not involve any systematic upward or downward bias in consumer surplus (CS) estimates because the direct negative effect of a price increase (treating MDT as a single-destination trip) is offset by a shift in the estimated demand curve. Still, ignoring MDT can greatly underestimate or over...

With the goal of making urban living more efficient and pleasant through a better driving experience, we present a predictive navigation system that makes use of city-described data along with the driver’s driving history to predict destination in order to provide useful routing recommendation accordingly. In this paper, we describe a predictive destination framework composed of models that wor...

One of the biggest challenges facing Internet of Things (IoT) is the existing infrastructure of Internet and its mechanism of action. This paper proposes a new system, which sends the full Internet best path (between source and destination objects) to source object on IoT. This will help data of source object to reach its final destination object faster. This system saves most of recalculation ...

modern world faces a multitude of challenges regarding displacement including high fuel consumption, air pollution, congestion in streets, decrease in physical activities, insecurity of passers-by etc. most of which result from dependence on automobiles and the vehicle-stricken urban forms. planners and public health officials are turning to land planning and urban design for help in reducing a...