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List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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-dep
