Engineering science Optimal Urban Transportation Network for Tourism via Lane Reservation

In order to improve tourist satisfaction and promote the coordinated development of tourism and urban, this paper investigates an urban transportation network problem for tourism via lane reservation strategy. The focus of the problem is to select some lanes from the existing transportation infrastructure and convert them to reserved lanes for tourism so that tourist satisfaction can be ensured. However, the lane reservation strategy may cause the impact on traffic because of disallowing the use of reserved lanes by general vehicles. Thus, the objective of the paper is to minimize the total impact on traffic of the urban transportation network. In this paper, an integer model is formulated which is different from the existing models on the objective function, the constrain of task and the measure of making reservation lane. The model is proved to be effective and superior by the results shown via Lingo in the example of the tourist urban of Luoyang.