Connectivity analysis of the global shipping network by eigenvalue decomposition

Pan, Jingjing; Bell, Michael G.H.; Cheung, Kam-Fung; Perera, Supun; Yu, Hang

doi:10.1080/03088839.2019.1647587

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“…In parallel, engineers, economists, and geographers gradually adopted such a framework, mainly confirming the already observed scale-free and small-world macro-structure (Ducruet and Notteboom, 2012;Hu and Zong, 2013;Kang et al, 2014;Liu et al, 2018;Pan et al, 2019). Some of them discussed the effect of node aggregation at different scales (Tsiotas and Polyzos, 2018;Wang et al, 2019a), while others studied the global maritime network with the world region as the unit of analysis (Tran and Haasis, 2014;Li et al, 2015;Xu et al, 2015).…”

Section: From Graph Theory To Complex Networksupporting

confidence: 52%

The geography of maritime networks: A critical review

Ducruet

2020

Journal of Transport Geography

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Despite early cartographical and graph-theoretical analyses of maritime flows in the 1940s and 1960s, it is only from the 2000s onwards that maritime network analysis had grown apace, backed by newly available shipping data, increased computational power, and renewed conceptual frameworks to study networks in general. The evolution of maritime network analysis, in geography and other sciences, is marked by a wide diversity of methods and themes, which we classify into three main parts. We first present studies looking at maritime flows in an abstract space, focusing on operational, statistical, or managerial aspects where navigation, graph structure, and firms' strategies are the key concerns. Second, we review researches where maritime flows and networks are markers and vectors of wider geo-economic structures and dynamics, such as regional inequalities and areas of dominance. Lastly, maritime networks have also been considered as integral parts of territories and wider chained systems, such as urban networks, regional networks, and coupled networks. We conclude that network analysis and maritime transport still share many uncovered areas and discuss potential research pathways for future works.

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Section: From Graph Theory To Complex Networksupporting

confidence: 52%

The geography of maritime networks: A critical review

Ducruet

2020

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…As most segments of maritime transport function through direct port-to-port shipments, as said above, the main issue for our present research is to make liner shipping compatible with the rest. Despite their use of schedule data, most of the existing studies of liner shipping networks analyzed a network made of direct port-to-port connections (see Bartholdi et al, 2016;Huang et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2016;Pan et al, 2019). One exception is the work of Hu and Zhu (2009) on the global liner shipping network, where each vessel creates a complete subgraph (i.e.…”

Section: Construction Of the Global Networkmentioning

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Port specialization and connectivity in the global maritime network

Ducruet¹

2020

Maritime Policy & Management

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While ports of the world are more or less diversified, the influence of traffic diversity on the global port hierarchy and maritime network is not yet well understood. This research uses a complex network approach to analyze the interplay between no less than 20 shipping traffic types connecting more than 1,600 ports. A database covering about 155000 daily movements of 24321 vessels in 2008 is used to construct a global matrix of inter-port shipping flows. Main results show that the global network is highly dependent on more diversified nodes, which in turn catch the most traffic and exhibit higher connectivity. It also underlines the role and nature of specific shipping segments as layers of an allencompassing maritime system.

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“…The nodes behave both as the seaports of the rail-sea intermodal transport and as connecting points which link the sea transport with the inland transport for CR express trains ( Cullinane and Wang, 2012 ). As such, the CR express intermodal transport can create more demand for the maritime transport and enhance the shipping connectivity ( Pan et al, 2019 ). It also accumulates high-end industrial elements in the maritime domain.…”

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Importance rankings of nodes in the China Railway Express network under the Belt and Road Initiative

Zhang

Lee

2020

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Highlights This paper ranks the important logistics nodes across the complex China Railway Express (CR express) network from the Belt and Road Initiative perspective. Moscow ranks the first in the node’s importance in the CR express transport network; Guangzhou and Beihai rank the top two seaport nodes. This paper confirms the accuracy and practicability of the structural hole theory in the importance ranking of nodes in the complex network. This paper contributes to optimising the structure of CR express transport network and improving the network stability.

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Connectivity analysis of the global shipping network by eigenvalue decomposition

Cited by 31 publications

References 27 publications

The geography of maritime networks: A critical review

The geography of maritime networks: A critical review

Port specialization and connectivity in the global maritime network

Importance rankings of nodes in the China Railway Express network under the Belt and Road Initiative

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