Transport Expansion in Underdeveloped Countries: A Comparative Analysis

Taaffe, Edward J.; Morrill, Richard L.; Gould, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-15506-4_3

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“…Early work provided spatial models (Ogundana 1970;Rimmer 1967;Taaffe et al 1963) suggesting a trend towards an increasing level of cargo concentration in port systems. The search for regularities in the development of port hierarchies has mostly been done from a continental perspective considering ports as heads of land-based transport corridors willing to extend their hinterland coverage.…”

Section: Port Choice and The Hierarchy In Port Systemsmentioning

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The worldwide maritime network of container shipping: spatial structure and regional dynamics

Ducruet

Notteboom²

2012

Global Networks

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Port and maritime studies dealing with containerization have observed traffic concentration and dispersion throughout the world. Globalization, intermodal transportation, and technological revolutions in the shipping industry have resulted in both network extension and rationalization. However, lack of precise data on inter‐port relations prevent the application of wider network theories to global maritime container networks, which are often examined through case studies of specific firms or regions. In this article, we present an analysis of the global liner shipping network in 1996 and 2006, a period of rapid change in port hierarchies and liner service configurations. While we refer to literature on port system development, shipping networks, and port selection, the article is one of the only analyses of the properties of the global container shipping network. We analyse the relative position of ports in the global network through indicators of centrality. The results reveal a certain level of robustness in the global shipping network. While transhipment hub flows and gateway flows might slightly shift among nodes in the network, the network properties remain rather stable in terms of the main nodes polarizing the network and the overall structure of the system. In addition, mapping the changing centrality of ports confirms the impacts of global trade and logistics shifts on the port hierarchy and indicates that changes are predominantly geographic.

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Section: Port Choice and The Hierarchy In Port Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The worldwide maritime network of container shipping: spatial structure and regional dynamics

Ducruet

Notteboom²

2012

Global Networks

290

180

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“…Such indices include agricultural cooperatives, banking, communications (telegraph, telephone), educational facilities, electricity, employment patterns across economic sectors, medical services, police organizations, postal agencies, transportation modes (roads, rail), urbanization, and other artifacts of a market economy (Gould, 1976;Pedersen, 1975;Taaffe et al, 1963). One approach involves choosing an index of development, and tracing its spread across the landscape; this approach is similar methodologically to the culture trait studies of earlier diffusion research.…”

Section: Development As a Diffusion Processmentioning

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Diffusion: Geographical Aspects

Brown

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Transport geography became solidified as a geographic subfield during the late 1950s and early 1960s quantitative revolution, with an emphasis on research in spatial interaction and network analysis (Taaffe 1956;Ullman 1956;Garrison et al 1959;Garrison 1960;Garrison and Marble 1961;Taaffe, Morrill, and Gould 1963). Subsequent work on these themes was summarized in the form of the first textbook published in transportation geography in 1973 that included topics such as transportation and spatial structure and processes, the gravity model, structural analysis of transportation networks, and allocation models (Taaffe and Gauthier 1973).…”

Section: Brief History Of Transport Geographymentioning

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Bridging the Qualitative–Quantitative Divide in Transport Geography∗

Goetz

Vowles

Tierney

2009

The Professional Geographer

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Recent viewpoints concerning the state of research in transport geography have touched on the issue of insularity and the need to bridge the divide between the largely spatial-analytical or quantitative research in transport geography and the critical or qualitative research prevalent in urban, economic, and most other subfields of human geography. Transport geography has been criticized by some for being a quiet corner of our discipline that has lost its centrality largely because it remains within the analytical framework of the 1960s. This article explores these sentiments by reexamining recent transport-oriented research in highly cited geography journals to assess the degree to which the qualitative-quantitative divide exists within transport geography and between transport and other subfield in human geography, as well as to explore issues of productivity and centrality of transport-oriented research in geography. Results indicate that geographical research involving transport topics is much more prevalent and reflects a wider range of epistemological and methodological approaches than is frequently assumed. Nevertheless, there is still a considerable divide between "mainstream" transport geography and other human geographical research that necessitates much more interaction between transport and other subfields and greater incorporation of alternative research approaches within the mainstream of transport geography. To that end, we propose a preliminary critical transport geography research agenda that is open to a variety of methodological approaches, including quantitative analysis.

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Transport Expansion in Underdeveloped Countries: A Comparative Analysis

Cited by 133 publications

References 2 publications

The worldwide maritime network of container shipping: spatial structure and regional dynamics

The worldwide maritime network of container shipping: spatial structure and regional dynamics

Diffusion: Geographical Aspects

Bridging the Qualitative–Quantitative Divide in Transport Geography∗

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