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Apr 26, 2012

An Analysis on Tourist Bus Operation Plan of Mount Emei Scenic

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With the number of tourists increasing every year, there is a huge traffic pressure in Mount Emei scenic, so do the traffic jams and tourists stranded become increasing prominent in the area, which has become the bottleneck in Mount Emei's tourism development. Faced with the growing number of tourists, choosing the right mode of transport organization and rapidly transporting tourists is the key to improve the traffic situation. Based on the investigation and analysis of Mount Emei's traffic situation, using transportation planning theory and combined with operations research methods, established the linear optimization model of tourist bus operation plan whose target is minimize the total traffic time that tourists cost in the scenic. And using the simplex search method to obtain the optimal solution of the model, it is based on practical parameters which got from the surveys. The paper presents a operation plan of tourist bus that can rapidly transport passengers.

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Pages: 91 - 96

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Published online: Apr 26, 2012

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School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China; and Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Transportation of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, 610031, China.E-mail: [email protected]
School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.E-mail: [email protected]

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