Traffic flows around roundabouts have been found to be dependent on origin-destination flows, but the true nature of this relationship is not properly understood. Present analyses are based on either gap acceptance models or empirical models. These models do not properly account for the impact of origin-destination flows on roundabout operations. This has limited the possibility to develop stra...

In this paper we apply entropy in transportation model using maximum entropy method introduced by Shannon. A transportation model for trip distribution describes the number of trips between two zones where generalized cost is usually some combination of the travel, the distance traveled and the actual monetary cots. If the transportation model is of the power form and if the total number of ori...

The reduction in transportation costs when travelling with a low-cost airline (LCA) seems to have modified the composition of the trip budget. An understanding of expenditure composition when comparing LCA and legacy airline travellers is vital for destination marketers. Using micro official statistics data for air travellers to Spain in 2010 and the compositional data analysis (CODA) methodolo...

A gravity model for trip distribution describes the number of trips between two zones, as a product of three factors, one of the factors is separation or deterrence factor. The deterrence factor is usually a decreasing function of the generalized cost of traveling between the zones, where generalized cost is usually some combination of the travel, the distance traveled, and the actual monetary ...

Real-time estimation of destination and travel time for taxis is of great importance for existing electronic dispatch systems. We present an approach based on trip matching and ensemble learning, in which we leverage the patterns observed in a dataset of roughly 1.7 million taxi journeys to predict the corresponding final destination and travel time for ongoing taxi trips, as a solution for the...

This study examines if tourists actively inform themselves about the climate of their planned destination. In addition, we examine where they inform themselves and at what point in the holiday decision-making process. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to tourists at the airport, international bus station, and the train station in Hamburg during July and August 2004. Of the 394 r...

objectives and assessment points, let’s carry our vacation-planning analogy a bit further. We can have a very general destination in mind (e.g., somewhere out West), or a very specific destination (e.g., Grandma’s house at 1916 Organic Avenue, Bozeman, Montana). Arriving at our desired destination requires different types of planning and preparation, depending on where we decide to go. If we ch...