Robustness to missing or faulty input, due to failures in the data collection system, is a key characteristic for any travel time prediction model that is to be applied in a real time environment. Previous research by van Lint et al (2002) has shown that so-called State-Space Neural Networks (SSNN) are capable of accurately predicting experienced travel times. Our paper shows that incorporating...

Through online self-booking travel sites on the Web, consumers are offered great opportunities for convenient and inexpensive travel bookings. Nevertheless, they face certain problems and limitations in this respect: The booking process tends to be time-consuming and complicated, and the retrieved fares are often expensive. This research suggests that the most significant barriers to online boo...

introduction: today the market of medical tourism is growing as one of the competitive and profitable industries in the world. the aim of this study was to determine medical tourist attraction in tehran hospitals. methods: this is a descriptive study which was carried out in 8 hospitals of tehran in 2012. 195 people from the managing boards of these hospitals participated in the study. a questi...

Mental time travel is the capacity to imagine the autobiographical past and future. Schizotypy is a dimensional measure of psychosis-like traits found to be associated with creativity and imagination. Here, we examine the phenomenological qualities of mental time travel in highly schizotypal individuals. After recollecting past episodes (autobiographical memory) and imagining future events (epi...

Introduction: Travel Medicine specialty has existed in Latin American for more than 25 years. The creation of the Society (SLAMVI) stimulated medical education this discipline, through research and scientific publications. However, is practically unknown to Americans. Methods: Americans (n=9487) completed an online survey ten questions from nine countries region determine knowledge population a...

When planning a trip, one essential task is to find a set of Places-of-Interest (POIs) which can be visited during the trip. Using existing travel guides or websites such as Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor, the user has to either manually work out a desirable set of POIs or take pre-configured travel packages; the former can be time consuming while the latter lacks flexibility. In this demonstrat...