Assessment of hub status among Asian ports from a network perspective

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 593-606

  Low, Joyce M W ^a   Lam, Shao Wei ^a   Tang, Loon Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Network based connectivity index; Network based cooperation index; Port competitiveness; Stability of hub status

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

CONNECTIVITY INDICES; COOPERATION INDICES; EXPLICIT FORMULATION; NETWORK-BASED; PORT AUTHORITIES; PORT COMPETITIVENESS; PORT INFRASTRUCTURE; QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC;

PUBLIC POLICY;

COMPETITIVENESS; HUB AND SPOKE NETWORK; MODELING; POLICY MAKING; PORT DEVELOPMENT; PORT OPERATION; SHIPPING;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 67349140953     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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