Theoretical study of the effect of ports in the formation of city systems

This paper explores theoretically the formation of a system of cities in which ports affect the spatial location and the size of cities. The authors use a complex systems and economic geography approach to generate 2D cellular automata to simulate the formation of the landscape of urban agglomerations based on different configurations of port locations. The dynamics of the model shows the emergence of the classical city-size distributions in which the number of ports and their layout affects the growth rate and location of the city-size values. The authors' findings showed that the two port-city configuration give rise to cities at a long distance from a small number of ports. The size of the cities shows a positive correlations with their distance to ports. A four port-city configuration showed that if the number of ports increases, lower city-sizes are attained and their population displays a negative correlations with their distance to ports. For a lateral configuration with a significantly increase in the number of ports, mainly homogeneous city-size distributions are favored with a slight long-distance size correlation. Therefore, the authors' theoretical model shows a high internal consistency between the theory and assumptions used for describing reliable scenarios in the relationship of ports and urban systems.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1186/s41072-022-00117-6
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © The Author(s) 2022. corrected publication 2022.
• Authors:
  • Lugo, Igor
  • 0000-0003-3490-2654
  • Martínez-Mekler, Gustavo
  • 0000-0002-1192-9769
• Publication Date: 2022-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 16
• Serial:
  • Journal of Shipping and Trade
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISSN: 2364-4575
  • Serial URL: https://jshippingandtrade.springeropen.com/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cities; Location; Ports; Size; Spatial analysis; Urban development
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01857482
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 12 2022 10:22AM