A robust DEA‐centric location‐based decision support system for expanding Recreovía hubs in the city of Bogotá (Colombia)

Abstract

Multisectorial community programs to promote healthy living in public spaces are crucial for building a "culture of health" and could contribute to achieving the specific 2030 agendas of sustainable development goals, including reduction of inequalities; provision of inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities; and promotion of just, peaceful, and inclusive societies. In this context, the Recreovía program of Bogotá (Colombia) provides physical activity classes in parks mainly for vulnerable communities. We address the challenge of efficiently locating new Recreovía hubs through a novel robust data envelopment analysis (DEA) centric location-based decision support system (DSS) that helps the District Institute of Sports and Recreation of Bogotá (IDRD) to locate the best hubs to expand the Recreovía program throughout the city. The tool is applied to analyze different scenarios including one that was implemented in Bogotá and yielded an improvement of 28% in compound monthly growth rate of the average attendance to the hubs.

Analytics in developing countries: methods, applications, and the impact on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

“…Abolghasem et al. (2018) develop a DEA‐based decision support system for locating recreational activities in Colombia, and use SVM (in addition to several other statistical and machine learning techniques) to predict the attendance in the potential locations.…”

“…Abolghasem et al. (2018) develop a decision support system to aid governmental authorities in finding the best location to offer public recreational activities in Colombia. Fernandez et al.…”

“…A contribution involving this target is Abolghasem et al. (2018), which addresses the potential use of public spaces in promoting health living for all citizens. In the target of ensuring equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, Durán et al.’s (2011) research in obtaining similar attractive contracts, as explained under the goal of quality education, enables every student throughout the Chilean region to receive equivalent quality of food.…”

Real Estate Sector Efficiency Analysis

“…Se puede apreciar en la revisión anterior de inves� gaciones sobre DEA que es una tendencia u� lizarla para evaluar la efi ciencia de sectores empresariales y, sucesivamente, validar los resultados a través de un pronós� co basado en un algoritmo de aprendizaje no supervisado (Abolghasem, et al, 2019;Saghafi , et al, 2017Saghafi , et al, , 2017Salehi, et al, 2020;Wang, et al, 2019). Una de las ventajas de DEA aplicado al sector empresarial es la capacidad de mostrar a las empresas con bajos niveles de efi ciencia una ruta a seguir para mejorar su desempeño, además de indicar las empresas referentes de las cuales aprender.…”

“…Por lo tanto, Análisis de efi ciencia DEA es una herramienta que puede ayudar a tomar decisiones obje� vas que permitan un mejoramiento con� nuo del desempeño (Abolghasem, et al, 2019;An, et al, 2018;Kumar & Suganthi, 2019;Li, et al, 2017;Shepherd, et al, 2015;Wang, et al, 2019).…”