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Multi-day bicycle tour route generation

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  • Payne Katherine Carl

    (Brigham Young University – Information Systems, Provo, UT, USA)

  • Dror Moshe

    (University of Arizona – Management Information Systems, Tucson, AZ, USA)

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In this paper, we describe a procedure for constructing bicycle routes of minimal perceived exertion over a multi-day tour for cyclists of different levels of expertise. Given a cyclist’s origin, destination, selected points of interest she/he wants to visit, and a level of cycling expertise, this procedure generates a multi-day bicycle tour as a collection of successive daily paths that begin and end at overnight accommodations. The objective is to minimize the total perceived exertion. We demonstrate the implementation of this procedure on an example multi-day tour route in California and present the results of a survey designed to evaluate the daily paths constructed. Repeated measures analysis indicated that 108 of the 120 perceived exertion ratings of the routes generated by our method fit the reported perceived exertion levels of 175 avid cyclists who participated in an evaluation survey.

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  • Payne Katherine Carl & Dror Moshe, 2015. "Multi-day bicycle tour route generation," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 11(2), pages 85-96, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:jqsprt:v:11:y:2015:i:2:p:85-96:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/jqas-2014-0071
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