Energy Minimizing Mountain Ascent

Jaklič, Gašper; Kanduč, Tadej; Praprotnik, Selena; Žagar, Emil

doi:10.1007/s10957-012-0088-4

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“…The cost of human movement in the space can be measured in several ways, such as energy and time. Among the different studies published on this topic, we can use [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51] as examples.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Formation of the trail system in a sloped environment A considerable number of studies have been carried out to find optimal paths on sloped and rugged terrains based on different theoretical background and approaches for energy, time, and other types of optimization (e.g., [14,46,49,50,[59][60][61]). The review shows that the existing literature mostly focused on studying human movement on the sloped terrain rather than the path-formation process, and previous studies mostly concentrated on suggesting optimal path-finding algorithms for a walker who is ascending or descending a mountain or traversing rugged terrain according to an ad-hoc parameter (i.e., optimization of metabolic energy travel time, etc.…”

Section: Formation Of the Human Trail System In Complex Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reviewing the few studies ( [13,14,49]) that oriented or aimed to model the trail formation process or reproduce the trial patterns emerging on sloped terrains reveals that all of the proposed models were more reliant on theoretical backgrounds, such as mathematics and physics-inspired optimization methodologies, and contributed little attention to human physical, psychological and cognitive behaviors. In this context, Gilks and Hague [13] extended the active walker model to address the formation of trails on gradients.…”

Section: Formation Of the Human Trail System In Complex Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this context, Gilks and Hague [13] extended the active walker model to address the formation of trails on gradients. However, the other contributions [14,49] are reliant on optimization methodologies for reproducing the emerged trail patterns that are observed in rugged environments, and they do not include the cost (i.e., comfort) of using formed trails in the cost estimation of their optimization algorithm. Moreover, the majority of previous studies were performed only on some simple geometric non-realistic shapes that have a constant inclination angles, and broader problems in the real world were neglected (Fig.…”

Section: Formation Of the Human Trail System In Complex Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Insufficient human knowledge about the terrain as well as the possible obstacles and other limitations, such as steepness of the terrain, is one of the major problems that a pedestrian usually encounters during locomotion in rugged landscapes. The selection of the criterion of path optimality, such as metabolic energy, length and time of traveling or a combination of these criteria, are another notable problem in this process [49].…”

Section: Formation Of the Human Trail System In Complex Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The informal transport infrastructure is an inseparable and critical element of the transportation system in that it provides pedestrian accessibility in planned or unplanned environments. Despite this important role, the informal infrastructure is usually neglected in formal studies, plans, reports or maps. A sophisticated understanding of the different dynamics and mechanisms behind the growth process of the informal infrastructure enables the researchers and practitioners to better plan, conserve and manage open spaces in planned and unplanned environments and helps them predict and manage the growth process of the informal infrastructure in the context of historical cities or informal settlements and model the mutual impacts of infrastructure growth and settlement growth in such areas. In the absence of a holistic spatially and temporally explicit model in the context of GIScience, this research aims to offer an outlook for some of the most important driving forces and aspects of informal infrastructure formation to establish the principal background for developing a spatially explicit, cognitively plausible conceptual model for future research. In this sense, this paper presents a critical review to cover a diverse range of topics in the different disciplines of this area and discuss the theoretical issues on the informal infrastructure formation process to explore, analyze and categorize the role of various human individual and collective-level behaviors and various human and environment interactions in emerging of the self-organizing patterns in the informal infrastructure system.

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