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In recent years advanced car navigation systems have emerged as a key tool for commuters. For tourists and visitors, analogous mobile tour guides are equally important when exploring urban and outdoor spaces. During the development of a mobile tour guide designed specifically forhikers and cyclists the need for route planning based on individualized time estimates became evident. Despite progress in accurate time-of-arrival estimation for cars, relatively little research has focused on hiking and cycling. This paper therefore discusses a number of approaches to time estimation, introducing a nearest neighbour model which, based on a preliminary evaluation, is applicable in scenarios where limited learning data is available.
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Authors acknowledge the financial support from the European Union (EU), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Austrian Federal Government and the State of Carinthia in the Interreg IV Italien-Österreich programme (project acronym O-STAR).
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Pitman, A., Bernhart, J., Posch, C., Zambaldi, M., Zanker, M. (2013). Time-of-Arrival Estimation in Mobile Tour Guides. In: Cantoni, L., Xiang, Z. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36309-2_7
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