Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling

<p>Shipping flows – maritime ‘footprints’ – remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the crucial importance of freight transport for global trade and economic development. Additionally decision-makers lack a comprehensive view on how shipping flows can be measured analyzed and mapped in order to support their policies and strategies. This interdisciplinary volume drawing on an international cast-list of experts explores a number of crucial issues in shipping data estimation construction collection mining analysis visualization and mapping. </p><p>Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling delivers several key messages. First that in a world of just-in-time delivery and rapid freight transit it is important to bear in mind the long-term roots of current trends as well as foreseeable future developments because shipping patterns exhibit recurrent if not cyclical and path-dependent dynamics. Second shipping flows are currently often understood at the micro-level of intra-urban logistics delivery and at the national level using commodity flow analyses but this volume emphasizes the need to expand the scale of analysis by offering new evidence on the changing distribution of global and international shipping flows based on actual data. Third that this multidisciplinary approach to shipping flows can shed important light on crucial issues that go beyond shipping itself including climate change urban development technological change commodity specialization digital humanities navigation patterns international trade and regional growth. </p><p></p><p>Edited by experts in their field this volume is of upmost importance to those who study industrial economics shipping industries and economic and transport geography. </p>