• DocumentCode
    572528
  • 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
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    15-17 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    506
  • Lastpage
    510
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Automation and Logistics (ICAL), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Zhengzhou
  • ISSN
    2161-8151
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0362-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2161-8151
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAL.2012.6308256
  • Filename
    6308256