Analytical Hierarchy Process Based Model for Safety Assessment of Coastal Touristic Locations

Dávila-Lamas, Alberto D.; Hernández, José Juan Carbajal; Sánchez-Fernández, Luis Pastor; Hoil-Rosas, César A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21077-9_33

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“…Beach safety assessment depends on several factors, where the behaviors of the involved parameters each have a different impact because the risk involved in the behavior of some parameters is greater than others. In this work, three principal factors are considered to assign the relative importance between parameters, but in contrast with the methods in [13], factors taken into consideration are the principal risks in beach zones. The first contemplated factor is the drowning risk.…”

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“…This index is denominated as the statistical index (SI). Simultaneously, the proposed index is also compared against the approach presented by Dávila-Lamas [13], which also considers four parameters. For the three indexes, the fuzzy inputs are the same.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In México, the analysis for coastal safety assessment is limited to the observation of the tide, calculation of the amount of stool, and the Blue Flag certification [12], but there are few incipient models to integrate this study or provide results with important variables related to the safety of tourism in coastal zones. A first approach was proposed in [13], where a safety index for coastal areas was proposed by analyzing tide, bathymetry, temperature, and wind speed; the parameters are integrated by employing an analytical hierarchy process approach for importance weight assessment. However, the parameters themselves do not define a safety condition as a whole, which is needed to determine when site conditions are dangerous or safe, using a site and priority classification.…”

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Assessment of Coastal Locations Safety Using a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process-Based Model

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Worldwide tourist beaches have been an ideal destination for people searching for a recreational place to visit; however, several conditions could generate risks for these visitors. At present, the main efforts to assess these risks and prevent people from danger are essentially focused on monitoring tidal height in the zone, ignoring other risk sources. Therefore, this work generates an overall evaluation that considers the tidal height, bathymetry, temperature, solar radiation, and wind speed, establishing a relationship between parameters and safe beach conditions using a fuzzy logic approach. In addition, this paper presents the design and implementation of a computational model, based on a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP), to evaluate coastal and climatological parameters involved in tourist safety, which can be continuously monitored. Tourist beaches in South Baja California, México, with diverse environmental and coastal conditions, were assessed with the proposed model, providing several safety scenarios that contrast the results between sites and demonstrate the capacity of the model to evaluate them. The evaluation, obtained as a result of the computational model, presents information about the safety conditions in the assessed zone, considering the possible risks for all the parameters analyzed, which could be presented to beach visitors to prevent dangerous situations and avoid accidents.

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Section: Factor Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Beach Safety Index (Bsi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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