Empirical analysis of the worldwide maritime transportation network

Details Empirical analysis of the worldwide maritime transportation network Empirical analysis of the worldwide maritime transportation network

2008-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/0806.0472v2

Physica A 388 (2009) 2061-2071

Physics

Physics and Society

10 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physa.2008.12.016

In this paper we present an empirical study of the worldwide maritime transportation network (WMN) in which the nodes are ports and links are container liners connecting the ports. Using the different representation of network topology namely the space $L$ and $P$, we study the statistical properties of WMN including degree distribution, degree correlations, weight distribution, strength distribution, average shortest path length, line length distribution and centrality measures. We find that WMN is a small-world network with power law behavior. Important nodes are identified based on different centrality measures. Through analyzing weighted cluster coefficient and weighted average nearest neighbors degree, we reveal the hierarchy structure and "rich-club" phenomenon in the network.

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