Towards a finer heritage management

Towards a finer heritage management: Evaluating the tourism carrying capacity using an agent-based model

Bai, N. (TU Delft Heritage & Values)
Nourian, Pirouz (TU Delft Design Informatics)
Xie, Anping (Palace Museum)
Pereira Roders, A. (TU Delft Architectural Engineering +Technology)

Holzer, Dominik (editor)
Nakapan, Walaiporn (editor)
Globa, Anastasia (editor)
Koh, Immanuel (editor)

Architectural Engineering +Technology

2020

As one of the most important areas in the Palace Museum, Beijing, China, the Hall of Mental Cultivation had suffered from overcrowding of visitors before it was closed in 2016 for conservation. Preparing for the reopening in 2020, the Palace Museum decided to take the chance and initiate finer-grained tourism management in the Hall. This research intends to provide an audio-guided touring program by dynamically evaluating the Tourism Carrying Capacity (TCC) with the highlight spots in the Hall, to operate the touring program spatiotemporally. Framing an optimization problem for the touring program, an agent-based simulator, Thunderhead Pathfinder, originally developed for evacuation in the emergency, is utilized to verify the performance of the touring system. The simulation shows that the proposed touring program could precisely fit all the key requirements to improve the visitors' experience, to guarantee heritage safety, and to ensure more efficient management.

Agent-Based Simulation
Heritage Management
Operations Research
Tourism Carrying Capacity

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The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)

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Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2020: RE: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans

25th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2020 (Virtual), 2020-08-05 → 2020-08-06, Bangkok, Thailand

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© 2020 N. Bai, Pirouz Nourian, Anping Xie, A. Pereira Roders