Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes

Ecotourism routes serve as powerful tools for fostering environmental awareness. To achieve this, it is crucial to design itineraries within natural parks that strike a balance between visitor experience and ecological preservation. Limiting the duration of visits prevents undue strain on both visit...

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Autores: Piedra de la Cuadra, Ramón, Ortega Riejos, Francisco Alonso
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/155657
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/155657
https://doi.org/10.3390/math12050624
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Palabra clave:Tourist trip design problem
Arc orienteering problem
Scenic path
Tourist preference
Ecotourism route
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spelling Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodesPiedra de la Cuadra, RamónOrtega Riejos, Francisco AlonsoTourist trip design problemArc orienteering problemScenic pathTourist preferenceEcotourism routeEcotourism routes serve as powerful tools for fostering environmental awareness. To achieve this, it is crucial to design itineraries within natural parks that strike a balance between visitor experience and ecological preservation. Limiting the duration of visits prevents undue strain on both visitors and ecosystems. Effective routes should showcase high biodiversity, traversing diverse sites to enhance knowledge acquisition. Considering natural factors such as light conditions and climate, it is prudent to tailor visiting times to optimize the experience. Therefore, it makes sense to incorporate time-dependent benefits at arcs and the possibility of introducing waiting times at nodes in the design models. These two characteristics have enriched the optimization models developed to solve the tourist trip design problem based on maximizing benefit only when points of interest are visited. However, the specific application of these aforementioned characteristics and enriched optimization models to the arc orientation problem remains yet to be reported on and published in the literature. Our contribution addresses this gap, proposing a route design model with scenic value in the arches of the graph where the benefits perceived by travelers are maximized, taking into account a diversity of evaluations depending on the time of starting the trip through each arc.MDPIMatemática Aplicada IFQM241: Optimización Matemática Aplicada (Óptima)Junta de AndalucíaEuropean Commission (EC). Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)2024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/155657https://doi.org/10.3390/math12050624reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésMathematics, 12(5) (624).US-1381656https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/12/5/624info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/1556572026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes
title Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes
spellingShingle Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes
Piedra de la Cuadra, Ramón
Tourist trip design problem
Arc orienteering problem
Scenic path
Tourist preference
Ecotourism route
title_short Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes
title_full Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes
title_fullStr Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes
title_full_unstemmed Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes
title_sort Designing ecotourism routes with time-dependent benefits along arcs and waiting times at nodes
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Piedra de la Cuadra, Ramón
Ortega Riejos, Francisco Alonso
author Piedra de la Cuadra, Ramón
author_facet Piedra de la Cuadra, Ramón
Ortega Riejos, Francisco Alonso
author_role author
author2 Ortega Riejos, Francisco Alonso
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Matemática Aplicada I
FQM241: Optimización Matemática Aplicada (Óptima)
Junta de Andalucía
European Commission (EC). Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Tourist trip design problem
Arc orienteering problem
Scenic path
Tourist preference
Ecotourism route
topic Tourist trip design problem
Arc orienteering problem
Scenic path
Tourist preference
Ecotourism route
description Ecotourism routes serve as powerful tools for fostering environmental awareness. To achieve this, it is crucial to design itineraries within natural parks that strike a balance between visitor experience and ecological preservation. Limiting the duration of visits prevents undue strain on both visitors and ecosystems. Effective routes should showcase high biodiversity, traversing diverse sites to enhance knowledge acquisition. Considering natural factors such as light conditions and climate, it is prudent to tailor visiting times to optimize the experience. Therefore, it makes sense to incorporate time-dependent benefits at arcs and the possibility of introducing waiting times at nodes in the design models. These two characteristics have enriched the optimization models developed to solve the tourist trip design problem based on maximizing benefit only when points of interest are visited. However, the specific application of these aforementioned characteristics and enriched optimization models to the arc orientation problem remains yet to be reported on and published in the literature. Our contribution addresses this gap, proposing a route design model with scenic value in the arches of the graph where the benefits perceived by travelers are maximized, taking into account a diversity of evaluations depending on the time of starting the trip through each arc.
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