A systematic and critical review of port system research

César Ducruet () and Theo Notteboom ()
Additional contact information
César Ducruet: EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Theo Notteboom: UGENT - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University = Université de Gand, UA - University of Antwerp

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Despite its wide use in port studies, the concept of port system remains relatively vague and ill-defined, ranging from a geographic or administrative area containing two or more ports to an interconnected set of port nodes in a given network. Based on a corpus of no less than 268 articles, this chapter investigates how port systems have been studied since the pioneer works of the 1960s. The bibliometric approach underlines a growing publication trend and collaboration dynamic over time, a shift from geography to transport journals, and a widening focus from national to transnational and global. The content analysis reveals that although more than half of the corpus concerns issues of concentration/deconcentration, new concepts are emerging in port system studies, which underline different spatial patterns and processes. To be noticed is the growing importance of maritime connectivity, after decades of dominant land-based models focusing on hinterlands.

Keywords: connectivity; foreland; hinterland; port system; spatial pattern (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04194563v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in César Ducruet; Theo Notteboom. Port Systems in Global Competition. Spatial-Economic Perspectives on the Co-Development of Seaports, Routledge, pp.13-54, 2023, Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis, 9781003316657. ⟨10.4324/9781003316657-3⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04194563v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-04194563

DOI: 10.4324/9781003316657-3

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().