Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling: Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data (Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis)

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.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 in