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An Enhanced Hybrid LBS and Its Prototype for Supporting Backpackers in Beijing

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With the development of economic and people’s living standards, more and more people join the ranks of backpackers, which have brought a lot of pressures to the society. It’s the emergence of an enhanced hybrid location-based services (LBS) to solve this problem. LBS are classified into three categories, i.e. Reactive LBS, Proactive LBS, and Hybrid LBS (H-LBS). The prototype of H-LBS for supporting backpackers in Beijing was discussed. There are several services to support backpackers by H-LBS, for example travel insurance services, tourism planning services, in which kernel density estimation was used to calculate the hotspots, and travel process support services.

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This study is supported by the funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (41071284) and Guangzhou Planning Project of Science & Technology (2010Y1-C711).

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  1. Department of Remote Sensing and GIS Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Qiuhua Huang, Linyuan Xia & Dongjin Wu

  2. Department of City and Environment Science, City College of Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, 523106, China

    Qiuhua Huang

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Huang, Q., Xia, L. & Wu, D. An Enhanced Hybrid LBS and Its Prototype for Supporting Backpackers in Beijing. Wireless Pers Commun 77, 433–448 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1514-0

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