Autor según el artículo: Gutiérrez, A.; Domènech, A.

Departamento: Geografia

Autor/es de la URV: GUTIÉRREZ PALOMERO, AARON; Domènech, A.

Palabras clave: Geographic Information Systems public transport Seasonality

Resumen: This article develops a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness and spatial coverage of public transport in tourist cities. The proposed methodology is applied and validated in Cambrils municipality, in the central part of the Costa Daurada in Catalonia, a coastal destination characterised by the concentration of tourism flows during summer. The application of GIS spatial analysis tools allows for the development of a system of territorial indicators that spatially correlate the public transport network and the distribution of the population. The main novelty of our work is that this analysis not only includes the registered resident population, but also incorporates the population that temporarily inhabits the municipality (tourists). The results of the study firstly permit the detection of unequal spatial accessibility and coverage in terms of public transport in the municipality, with significant differences between central neighbourhoods and peripheral urban areas of lower population density. Secondly, they allow observation of how the degree of public transport coverage differs significantly in areas with a higher concentration of tourist accommodation establishments.

Grupo de investigación: GRATET. Anàlisi Territorial i Estudis Turístics

Áreas temáticas: Turisme i oci Turismo y ocio Tourism and leisure

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 2220-9964

Identificador del autor: 0000-0003-0557-6319; n/a

Fecha de alta del registro: 2017-12-10

Volumen de revista: 6

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/6/3/83

DOI del artículo: 10.3390/ijgi6030083

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2017

Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article