<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>There are numerous attempts to estimate hiking time since the age of the ancient Roman Empire, the new digital era calls for more precise and exact solutions to be implemented in mobile applications. The importance of the topic lies in the fact that route planning algorithms and shortest path problems apply time estimations as cost functions. Our intention is to design a hiking time estimation method that accounts for terrain circumstances as well as personal factors, while the level of accuracy and the simplicity of the algorithm should enable the solution to be utilised in the practice. We refine Tobler’s earlier results to estimate a relation between terrain steepness and hiker’s velocity. Later we use fitted curve to design our novel, personalised hiking time estimation method.</p></abstract>

There are numerous attempts to estimate hiking time since the age of the ancient Roman Empire, the new digital era calls for more precise and exact solutions to be implemented in mobile applications. The importance of the topic lies in the fact that route planning algorithms and shortest path problems apply time estimations as cost functions. Our intention is to design a hiking time estimation method that accounts for terrain circumstances as well as personal factors, while the level of accuracy and the simplicity of the algorithm should enable the solution to be utilised in the practice. We refine Tobler’s earlier results to estimate a relation between terrain steepness and hiker’s velocity. Later we use fitted curve to design our novel, personalised hiking time estimation method.

Personalised Hiking Time Estimation

Pure Mathematics and Applications

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There are numerous attempts to estimate hiking time since the age of the ancient Roman Empire, the new digital era calls for more precise and exact solutions...

Personalised Hiking Time Estimation

Published Online: Sep 01, 2018

Page range: 35 - 42

Received: Aug 27, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/puma-2015-0017

Keywords
Time estimation, Operations research, Model Construction and Estimation, Forecasting and Prediction Methods, Tourism

© 2018 Apáthy M. Sándor, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Personalised Hiking Time Estimation

Published Online: Sep 01, 2018

Page range: 35 - 42

Received: Aug 27, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/puma-2015-0017

KeywordsTime estimation, Operations research, Model Construction and Estimation, Forecasting and Prediction Methods, Tourism

© 2018 Apáthy M. Sándor, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Time estimation, Operations research, Model Construction and Estimation, Forecasting and Prediction Methods, Tourism