Inland waterway ports nodal attraction indices relevant in development strategies on regional level

4th ModTech International Conference - Modern Technologies in Industrial Engineering

Dinu, O.^1 ; Burciu, S.^1 ; Oprea, C.^1 ; Ilie, A.^1 ; Rosca, M.^1

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Transport Faculty, 313 Splaiul Independenei, Bucharest

060042, Romania^1

关键词: Accessibility index;    Development strategies;    Economic potentials;    Nodal functions;    Ranking criterion;    Spatial analysis;    Spatial features;    Traffic structures;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/145/8/082008/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/145/8/082008

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Present paper aims to propose a set of ranking indices and related criteria, concerning mainly spatial analysis, for the inland waterway port, with special view on inland ports of Danube. Commonly, the attraction potential of a certain transport node is assessed by its spatial accessibility indices considering both spatial features of the location provided by the networks that connect into that node and its economic potential defining the level of traffic flows depending on the economic centers of its hinterland. Paper starts with a overview of the critical needs that are required for potential sites to become inland waterway ports and presents nodal functions that coexist at different levels, leading to a port hierarchy from the points of view of: capacity, connection to hinterland, traffic structure and volume. After a brief review of the key inland waterway port ranking criterion, a selection of nodal attraction measures is made. Particular considerations for the Danube inland port case follows proposed methodology concerning indices of performance for network scale and centrality. As expected, the shorter the distance from an inland port to the nearest access point the greater accessibility. Major differences in ranking, dependent on selected criterion, were registered.