Accessibility, vulnerability, and resilience in a stochastic model of sustainable ecotourism

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 43, Issue , 2016, Pages 71-81

  Batabyal, Amitrajeet A ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Ecotourism; Queuing theory; Resilience; Sustainability; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MANAGERS; QUEUEING THEORY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCESSIBILITY; ECO-TOURISMS; QUEUING THEORY; RESILIENCE; VULNERABILITY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ACCESSIBILITY; ECOTOURISM; MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84953338502     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2015.12.004     Document Type: Article

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