1st Edition

Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data

Edited By César Ducruet Copyright 2018
    480 Pages
    by Routledge

    480 Pages 150 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Shipping flows – maritime ‘footprints’ – remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the crucial importance of freight transport for global trade and economic development. Additionally, decision-makers lack a comprehensive view on how shipping flows can be measured, analyzed, and mapped in order to support their policies and strategies. This interdisciplinary volume, drawing on an international cast-list of experts, explores a number of crucial issues in shipping data estimation, construction, collection, mining, analysis, visualization, and mapping.



    Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling delivers several key messages. First, that in a world of just-in-time delivery and rapid freight transit, it is important to bear in mind the long-term roots of current trends as well as foreseeable future developments because shipping patterns exhibit recurrent, if not cyclical and path-dependent, dynamics. Second, shipping flows are currently often understood at the micro-level of intra-urban logistics delivery and at the national level using commodity flow analyses, but this volume emphasizes the need to expand the scale of analysis by offering new evidence on the changing distribution of global and international shipping flows, based on actual data. Third, that this multidisciplinary approach to shipping flows can shed important light on crucial issues that go beyond shipping itself including climate change, urban development, technological change, commodity specialization, digital humanities, navigation patterns, international trade, and regional growth.



    Edited by experts in their field, this volume is of upmost importance to those who study industrial economics, shipping industries and economic and transport geography.

    Foreword





    CHAPTER 1



    Introduction: taking the pulse of world trade and movement



    César DUCRUET





    Part 1: Connectivity analyses





    CHAPTER 2



    Winds and maritime linkages in Ancient Greece



    Ray RIVERS, Tim EVANS and Carl KNAPPETT





     



    CHAPTER 3



    Reconstituting the maritime routes of the Roman Empire



    Pascal ARNAUD





     



    CHAPTER 4



    Ship logbooks help to understand climate variability



    Ricardo GARCÍA-HERRERA, David GALLEGO, David BARRIOPEDRO and Javier MELLADO





     



    CHAPTER 5



    Complex network analysis of cross-strait container flows



    Lie-Hui WANG, Yan HONG, and Yushan LIN





     



    CHAPTER 6



    Liner shipping forelands of Portugal’s main ports



    Tiago A. SANTOS and Carlos GUEDES SOARES





     



    CHAPTER 7



    The complex network of coastal shipping in Brazil



    Carlos César RIBEIRO SANTOS, Marcelo DO VALE CUNHA, Hernane Borges DE BARROS PEREIRA





    CHAPTER 8



    Intra vs. extra-regional connectivity of the Black Sea port system



    Kateryna GRUCHEVSKA, Theo NOTTEBOOM, and César DUCRUET





     



    CHAPTER 9



    Maritime connections and disconnections in a changing Arctic



    Mia BENNETT





     



    Part 2: Geospatial analyses





    CHAPTER 10



    GIS-based analysis of US international seaborne trade flows



    Guoqiang SHEN





     



    CHAPTER 11



    Vessel tracking data usage to map Mediterranean flows



    Alfredo ALESSANDRINI, Virginia FERNANDEZ ARGUEDAS, Michele VESPE





     



    CHAPTER 12



    Geovisualizing the sail-to-steam transition through vessel movement data



    Mattia BUNEL, Françoise BAHOKEN, Cé

    Biography

    César Ducruet is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) & UMR 8504 Géographie-cités laboratory, Paris, France. His work focuses on transport geography and network science with applications in Europe and Asia.