Print Email Facebook Twitter The Criticality of the European Multimodal Transportation Network Title The Criticality of the European Multimodal Transportation Network: Multifaceted Investigation of the European Hinterland Transportation Network based on Its Network Structure Author Andreas Yunus, Andreas (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Cunningham, Scott (mentor) van Duin, Ron (graduation committee) Ebrahimi Fard, Amir (graduation committee) Harter, Camill (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Engineering and Policy Analysis Date 2019-08-23 Abstract A nation’s main port is a crucial component that contributes to the economic development of a country. Therefore, the role of the port becomes more critical nowadays. However, due to the existing hub-and-spoke structure of the European multimodal transportation network, polarisation and regionalisation are visible in the network. The increasing regionalisation and polarisation that happens in the European region widen the inequality in the network. Moreover, the inequality in the network will impact the sensitivity and resistance of the whole network to targeted disruptions, such as infrastructure failures, natural disasters, or potential terrorist attack. Then, on the real aspect, the widening of inequality in the network also inhibits the well-distributed economic development in the region. In this study, various methods will be employed to have multiple points of view of the network itself, such as the multilayer network analysis, community detection, and Network-based Hub Port Assessment (NHPA). Furthermore, the study will be structured into three building blocks that shapes as a foundation to perform the final analysis and provide a multifaceted overview of the overall network, which is versatility analysis, community structure analysis, and quantification of collaboration-connectivity of the container hubs. Afterwards, three determinants as measurements of network performance are defined, to perform the criticality analysis. This study concludes that the development of connections between different communities can help to decrease the existing inequality in the network. Then, the appearance of new community structure in the network can help to decrease the inequality in the network, which lead to more well-distributed economic development in the region. Subject Network scienceGraph theoryMultilayer network analysisCriticality analysisTransportation networkMultimodal transportationContainer hubs To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9a62299f-13af-4230-b3a0-e574e6fd023f Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Andreas Andreas Yunus Files PDF Thesis_Andreas_09082019_final.pdf 5.97 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9a62299f-13af-4230-b3a0-e574e6fd023f/datastream/OBJ/view