The Hinterland Spatial Structure Evolvement of Competitive Port Based on ArcGIS
Contention for hinterland is the main component of port competition. To competitive ports in the same port cluster, study of hinterland is more important. By using breakpoint model and Huff model with ArcGIS tools, the article is carried on research of hi
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Abstract Contention for hinterland is the main component of port competition. To competitive ports in the same port cluster, study of hinterland is more important. By using breakpoint model and Huff model with ArcGIS tools, the article is carried on research of hinterland areas changing between ports of Shanghai and Ningbo. The research has shown that hinterland areas of Ningbo port was gradually expanding, while less hinterland cities were selecting Shanghai port from 1990. Soft power of a port is becoming an essence attracting hinterland cities. The improvement of traffic accessibility and the decline of distance impedance coefficient between ports and hinterland cities will bring positive effects to dominant ports. In order to adopt targeted strategy and seize competitive advantage, ports are positive to define competitive front- hinterland cities in spatial structure evolvement. Keywords Competitive port
Hinterland Spatial structure ArcGIS
1 Introduction Contention for hinterland is the main component of port competition. There are competitions among port clusters, among ports in a cluster and among port enterprises in a port as well. Study on port hinterland and its spatial structure evolvement helps contribute to the reasonable programming and distribution of the urban areas and promote the overall level of regional economy. It’s also an important basis for determining the port sizes and stages of development. In the perspective of port development, study on port hinterland and its spatial structure J. Zhuang S. Yu (&) Economics and Management School, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China e-mail: [email protected]
Z. Wen and T. Li (eds.), Practical Applications of Intelligent Systems, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 279, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54927-4_109, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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evolvement also helps contribute to understand the strengths and weaknesses in port operating. So that the enterprise can be clear in position and promote its competition ability. To competitive ports in the same port cluster, such study is more important. ArcGIS as a comprehensive, scalable GIS platform, which provides Spatial query and analysis, spatial information extraction, Spatial Comprehensive analysis, data-mining and knowledge discovery, modeling, and other functions, provides strong and powerful support for the science to efficiently analyze and explain the relationship between geographical characteristics and spatial pattern [1]. This paper intends to study the hinterland spatial structure evolvement based on ArcGIS.
2 Method The word ‘‘hinterland’’ derives from German, meaning the land lying beyond. It refers to the collection and distribution area around the port. Hinterland is the zone around the port for cargo gathering and distribution and passenger coming from and going to. It’s the basis of existence and development for ports. In 1934, the German scholar E. A. Kautz published ‘‘Das Standortsproblem der Seehäfen,’’ which was a
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