Title :
Study on gravitation between international inland-port and harbor
Author :
Gou, Chennan ; Liu, Yuzhe ; Ding, Cheng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Chang´´an Univ., Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
International Inland-port, as the new product of modern logistics development, which plays the function of the ligament to connect the inland areas with the international markets. In the process of International Inland-port construction and operation, it is a key problem for International Inland-port development and is also the basic point of this paper to choose right cooperative harbor and realize their linkage development. This paper established foreign trade logistics gravitation model of the inland city and the harbor, with the study of a network in forms of 20 optional cities of International Inland-port node and 8 harbors, using the social network analysis and Ucinet software for its quantitative analysis, and it worked out the first choice of cities and their alternative cooperative harbor for establishing our International Inland-port.
Keywords :
international trade; logistics; network theory (graphs); sea ports; Ucinet software; cooperative harbor; foreign trade logistic gravitation model; inland city; international inland-port construction; international inland-port development; international markets; linkage development; modern logistics development; quantitative analysis; social network analysis; Cities and towns; Economics; Educational institutions; Logistics; Throughput; Transportation; International Inland-port; Logistics gravitation;
Conference_Titel :
Automation and Logistics (ICAL), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zhengzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0362-0
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-8151
DOI :
10.1109/ICAL.2012.6308256