An Analysis of Information Necessity Related to the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Sightseeing Excursion Behaviors: Toward Development of the Regional ITS

Abstract

Recently, many of vigorous ITS researches have been expanded into transportation planning areas. These researches, however, have not established their systematic methodologies for transportation problem in sightseeing areas as a regional ITS. To develop ITS in sightseeing places, this paper proposes an analysis of infonnation needs considering timing, content, and media for decision-making on sightseeing excursion behavior. In the prior step to develop ITS in tourist areas, there are problems to extract basic issues in tourist excursion behavior and needs for tourist information. A case study is dealing with analysis of tourist informationeeds based on timespace characteristics in Mt Fuji area.