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Sea-Land Interdependence in the Global Maritime Network: the Case of Australian Port Cities

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This article tackles the longstanding issue of intermodality head on. From a geomatics perspective, we model both maritime and road networks connecting port and non-port cities taking into account crucial features such as physical geography, shortest paths, and transport costs. This creates the opportunity to study a hybrid network – both planar and non-planar, and the centrality/accessibility of cities in this bi-layered network. Based on the case of Australia, main results convey new empirical findings on how port and urban hierarchies correlate with single-layered and bi-layered connectivity. We discuss main results in the light of network science, spatial science, and transport studies.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. [313847] “World Seastems”.

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Berli, J., Bunel, M. & Ducruet, C. Sea-Land Interdependence in the Global Maritime Network: the Case of Australian Port Cities. Netw Spat Econ 18, 447–471 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-018-9403-4

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