Original scientific paper
NETWORK ANALYSIS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN PORT SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES
Dragan Čišić
Pavao Komadina
Bojan Hlača
Abstract
With the recent advent of computer-based communication technologies, transportation networks have become an important factor in the global interaction, as a real part of a virtual business. The world in the transportation and supply chain view may be described as being connected by a lattice of networks. As liner routes create a network, the authors are using the network analysis starting with the data that describ the set of relationships among the ports – members of a system. The goal of analysis is to obtain, from the low-level relational data, a higher-level description of the structure of the system. The higher-level description identifies various kinds of patterns in the set of relationships. These patterns will be based on the way individual organizations are related to other ports in the network. The primary goal of this research is to identify the most important actor(s) in the network, and a couple of measures, designed to highlight the differences between
important and marginal ports acting in liner network , are presented too. The definitions of importance and prominence are given along with the mathematical concepts generated by various definitions.
Keywords
transport networks; ports; social networks; Mediterranean transport system
Hrčak ID:
14196
URI
Publication date:
27.6.2007.
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