Title :
Travel agent instructing and management
Author :
Chen, Tao ; Chen, Senfa ; Yao, Tianxing ; Song, Yuewu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Economic & Manage., Southeast Univ., Nanjing
Abstract :
This paper assesses the function of travel agents instructing on the choice for scheduled services from regional comprehensive transportation. A investigation survey, excepting track transportation there are more than 400 bus lines in some mega-cities. Reasons for developing the travel agent instruction system include that the routes from one place to another is many, and the times of transforming transportation vehicle in travel is many and the problem of the optimization choice for travel routes urgently needs to be solved. The models and algorithms of the optimization choice for travel routes are presented. The practicality of travel agent instructing on the choice for transportation vehicle and routes is explored by a number example of the travel agent instructing travel in Nanjing.
Keywords :
optimisation; road vehicles; scheduling; transportation; bus lines; optimization; regional comprehensive transportation; scheduled service; travel agent instruction system; travel agent management; Automation; Intelligent control; Road transportation; Vehicles; bus lines; comprehensive transportation; instructing; optimized choice;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation, 2008. WCICA 2008. 7th World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Chongqing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2113-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2114-5
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2008.4593560