Mobile Application to Provide Traffic Congestion Estimates and Tourism Spots to Promote Additional Stopovers
In Japan, traffic congestions often occur on the expressways connecting tourism areas with the Tokyo metropolitan area. This congestion can be mitigated if tourists delayed their departure of homeward trips to avoid peak traffic hours. A potential method to promote staggered departure times is provi...
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| author | Saizo Aoyagi Yiping Le Tetsuo Shimizu Kazuki Takahashi |
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| description | In Japan, traffic congestions often occur on the expressways connecting tourism areas with the Tokyo metropolitan area. This congestion can be mitigated if tourists delayed their departure of homeward trips to avoid peak traffic hours. A potential method to promote staggered departure times is providing the estimates of near-future traffic congestion. This study hypothesized and experimentally confirmed that some tourists would delay their departure to avoid traffic based on near-future traffic estimates. The experiment was conducted in the Yatsugatake area using a mobile application that provided this information to tourists. The results suggest that approximately 40% of self-driving tourists will perform an additional stopover if the returning route is congested and near-future traffic congestion estimate is provided. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17ffb358e662462d923f34abedbf729e2023-11-19T23:01:07ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032020-04-011258310.3390/fi12050083Mobile Application to Provide Traffic Congestion Estimates and Tourism Spots to Promote Additional StopoversSaizo Aoyagi0Yiping Le1Tetsuo Shimizu2Kazuki Takahashi3Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design, Toyo University, Tokyo 115-0053, JapanDepartment of Civil Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo 135-8548, JapanDepartment of Tourism Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino 192-0397, JapanNAVITIME Japan Co., Ltd., Tokyo 107-0062, JapanIn Japan, traffic congestions often occur on the expressways connecting tourism areas with the Tokyo metropolitan area. This congestion can be mitigated if tourists delayed their departure of homeward trips to avoid peak traffic hours. A potential method to promote staggered departure times is providing the estimates of near-future traffic congestion. This study hypothesized and experimentally confirmed that some tourists would delay their departure to avoid traffic based on near-future traffic estimates. The experiment was conducted in the Yatsugatake area using a mobile application that provided this information to tourists. The results suggest that approximately 40% of self-driving tourists will perform an additional stopover if the returning route is congested and near-future traffic congestion estimate is provided.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/5/83additional stopovertraffic congestionself-driving touristsroute for returning hometravel trajectory |
| spellingShingle | Saizo Aoyagi Yiping Le Tetsuo Shimizu Kazuki Takahashi Mobile Application to Provide Traffic Congestion Estimates and Tourism Spots to Promote Additional Stopovers Future Internet additional stopover traffic congestion self-driving tourists route for returning home travel trajectory |
| title | Mobile Application to Provide Traffic Congestion Estimates and Tourism Spots to Promote Additional Stopovers |
| title_full | Mobile Application to Provide Traffic Congestion Estimates and Tourism Spots to Promote Additional Stopovers |
| title_fullStr | Mobile Application to Provide Traffic Congestion Estimates and Tourism Spots to Promote Additional Stopovers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobile Application to Provide Traffic Congestion Estimates and Tourism Spots to Promote Additional Stopovers |
| title_short | Mobile Application to Provide Traffic Congestion Estimates and Tourism Spots to Promote Additional Stopovers |
| title_sort | mobile application to provide traffic congestion estimates and tourism spots to promote additional stopovers |
| topic | additional stopover traffic congestion self-driving tourists route for returning home travel trajectory |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/5/83 |
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