Study on the transport advantage and optimal port scale of a Bay Area. (15th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zheng, Mingxia; Lian, Feng; Yang, Zhongzhen
• Is Part Of: Ocean & coastal management. Volume 219(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-03-15
• Subjects: Bay area -- Accessibility -- Production function -- Location advantage -- Port cluster; Marine resources -- Management -- Periodicals; Coastal zone management -- Periodicals; Coastal ecology -- Periodicals; Ressources marines -- Périodiques; Littoral -- Aménagement -- Périodiques; Écologie littorale -- Périodiques; Coastal ecology; Coastal zone management; Marine resources -- Management; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 551.46
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106056
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-5691

Abstract

Abstract: To reveal the unique significant about the role of bay areas in global trade and shipping system, a Bay Area and a non-Bay Area are theoretically abstracted through urban economics methods. Given the assumption that except for port-based transportation all other elements remain constant, we analyze and prove the developmental advantages inherent in the Bay Area due to its longer coastline. Moreover, we set land, labor and transportation as the productivity factors and build a mathematical programming model to determine the optimal number and the initial scales of ports to build in a given Bay Area by means of a production function. The objective of the model is to maximize the total production profit within the region. For the case study, we adopt two kinds of transportation elements for numerical analysis, namely, the shortest distance to the nearest port and port accessibility to the outside world.