Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

Maritime transport faces new safety challenges in an increasingly complex traffic
environment caused by large-scale and high-speed ships, particularly with the introduction …

As a critical infrastructure system of modern society, the global liner shipping network
(GLSN) has become increasingly complex and thus vulnerable to disruptions. This study …

Complex systems are very often organized under the form of networks where nodes and
edges are embedded in space. Transportation and mobility networks, Internet, mobile phone …

Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tipping point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

Transportation networks play a crucial role in human mobility, the exchange of goods and
the spread of invasive species. With 90 per cent of world trade carried by sea, the global …

Despite early cartographical and graph-theoretical analyses of maritime flows in the 1940s
and 1960s, it is only from the 2000s onwards that maritime network analysis had grown …

Port and maritime studies dealing with containerization have observed traffic concentration
and dispersion throughout the world. Globalization, intermodal transportation, and …

Watts and Strogatz, with the publication in 1998 of their seminal paper on small-world
networks, opened the golden era of complex networks studies and showed in particular how …