The development of international land–sea transport corridors has provided more convenient access to the sea for inland areas and promoted the improvement of transportation efficiency, environmental improvement, and the strengthening of interna...
Ports are an important type of land use in coastal cities, and the development of ports has a significant influence on the spatial pattern of land use in port cities. However, the research focusing on economic indicators hardly reflects the process o...
The internal structure of urban construction land expansion (UCLE) is closely related to urban sustainability, and the UCLE in China’s port city has a unique pattern. This study attempted to monitor the internal structure evolution of UCLE based on c...
The transformation of land-border ports from transit channels into regional hubs is increasingly seen as a way to support inclusive growth in frontier regions. Yet port expansion does not automatically improve local livelihoods. Whether port-led deve...
The accurate detection of land subsidence rates in urban areas is important to identify damage-prone areas and provide decision-makers with useful information. Meanwhile, no precise measurements of land subsidence have been undertaken within the coas...
Elevated string-rail systems, in which unmanned electric vehicles run on steel wheels along a prestressed rail carried on slender supports, have been proposed as a way of moving containers between a quay and an inland terminal without using the road...
The Absheron Peninsula contains a dense network of Caspian ports and industrial terminals where vertical land motion (VLM) may affect infrastructure performance. We analyzed fourteen port-associated coastal analysis zones using ascending and descendi...
Sustainable Development (SD) is a fundamental objective in the European Union (EU) and transport is considered one of the key challenges necessary to achieve it. Although transport is mostly contested from the environmental dimension, an investigatio...
China has been through a period of remarkable urban sprawl since the reform and opening-up policy in 1978, with the highest urbanization occurring in the coastal zones. Sustainable urban development requires a better understanding of the spatiotempor...
In China, ports have long served as a key engine of growth for coastal cities. Increases in coastal port throughput inevitably lead to port spatial expansion, which in turn drives construction land expansion in port cities. Consequently, ports are a...
Aligning urban land development intensity with green land-use efficiency (GLUE) is crucial for fostering high-quality regional growth. This study aims to examine the coupling and coordination between built-up land intensity (BUI) and GLUE by utilizin...
With the rapid advancement of the Hainan Free Trade Port (HFTP), substantial changes in land use and ecological systems have emerged. The study analyzes the spatiotemporal dynamics of ecological quality in Hainan Province from 2017 to 2024 and projec...
The Italian coast has about 700 ports, which are different in typology, dimension, role, and ownership. Historically, this has led to the significant fragmentation of governance and space and a lack of cooperation that ports and cities still experien...
The competitiveness of seaports is predominantly affected by factors external to the ports themselves, connected mainly with the quality of the hinterland and foreland infrastructure. Measures taken in these areas are reflected in the main objectives...
Indonesia’s high logistics costs—approximately 14.6% of its GDP—pose a significant challenge to national economic competitiveness. Key contributing factors include complex geography, fragmented multimodal transport systems and ineff...
Urban air pollution remains a significant environmental and public health issue, especially in European coastal cities such as Klaipėda. However, there is still a lack of local-scale knowledge on how land use structure influences pollutant distr...
Understanding microplastic (MP) transport dynamics in river systems requires spatially and temporally resolved monitoring to disentangle localized point sources from diffuse catchment inputs. This study investigated MP contamination across two contra...
Located between Mexico and the US, the San Ysidro/El Chaparral Land Port of Entry (SYPOE) is one of the busiest border crossings in the world. People with activities at the SYPOE are exposed to vehicular pollutants, especially particles with aerodyna...
Coastal areas are under intense pressure worldwide because diverse stakeholders rely on coastal resources, and the supply of land is highly limited. Coast-dependent economic activities like transportation and logistics infrastructure in the Jade Bay,...
Background: This research aimed to establish a network linked to generation, for the transport route of tapioca starch products to a land port, serving as the logistics hub of Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province. Methods: The adaptive large n...
The landscape of the Port-au-Prince agglomeration in the Republic of Haiti has undergone profound changes linked to (peri-)urban expansion supported by rapid demographic growth. We quantify the land cover dynamics along the urban–rural gradient...
Automatic container-number recognition in land-port yards is challenged by clutter, illumination changes, scale variation, surface wear, and character distortion. This paper proposes a two-stage detection–cropping–recognition framework co...
Breakwater dams are critical infrastructures that protect the safety of ports. However, these coastal structures are facing the compounding threats of sea level rise, storm surge, and dam subsidence. Heterogeneous deformations in these infrastructure...
This paper evaluates the potential of using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) approaches for classification of Landsat satellite imagery for environmental coastal mapping. The aim is to identify changes in patterns of land cover...
Spatial scale is a key factor, which affects the accuracy of spatial expression and further influences the spatial planning of a research area. In order to help improve the efficiency and accuracy of optimal scale selection for all sizes of research...
Sea urchin (Loxechinus albus) is one of the most economically important species in the northeast of Chilean Patagonia, forming part of the highly diverse benthic community. This resource is being harvested under selective fishing pressure, which supp...
Durable logistics space commitments create a sustainability problem when capacity and freight demand diverge. We examine whether freight direction contains distinct information for warehouse market monitoring in China. Licensed CSMAR port and warehou...
The aim of this paper is to analyse the variations in the habits and the modes of transport of travellers departing from airports and ports during the COVID-19 outbreak. In the second year of the pandemic (i.e., from August to October 2021), travelle...
Studying urban expansion from a longer-term perspective is of great significance to obtain an in-depth understanding of the process of urbanization. Remote sensing data are mostly selected to investigate the long-term expansion of cities. In this stu...
Over the past 30 years, both banks of the Strait of Malacca have experienced rapid economic growth and urbanization. Because of the difficulties in obtaining multi-phase urban land information over a large tropical area, spatial-temporal evolution an...
With the economic globalization continuing to advance, coastal port cities have enjoyed increasingly prominent status and roles as the link between the sea and the land and an important window of foreign trade and exchanges. However, port cities, whi...
PM2.5 concentrations in major port cities in the Republic of Korea, such as Incheon and Busan, are as serious as those in land-based metropolises, such as Seoul, and fine dust generated in port cities is mainly emitted from ships. To identify the spe...
It is difficult to detect ports in polarimetric SAR images due to the complicated components, morphology, and coastal environment. This paper proposes an unsupervised port detection method by extracting the water of the port based on three-component...
The use of geodetic and hydrographic systems, methods and measuring devices to obtain geospatial data enables integrated modeling of 3D space and related objects. Factors such as the seafloor relief of the marina and land infrastructure need to be co...
Currently, industry and academia are undergoing an evolution in developing the next generation of drone applications. Including the development of autonomous drones that can carry out tasks without the assistance of a human operator. In spite of this...
Ports represent the point of intersection between sea and land, as well as a crucial node for the integration of maritime and land transport in the global logistics chain. Consequently, it is crucial to consider an articulated system that includes dr...
The study of Land Use and Landscape Patterns (LULPs) changes and their ecological quality effects in Haikou city under the background of the Hainan Free Trade Port Plan (HFTPP) helps to promote coordinated development between cities and the environme...
This study focuses on container shipping in Myanmar, which is expected to grow manifold in the near future, given the country’s rapid economic growth rates. This study simulates the impact of Myanmar’s logistics policies on container ship...
The fast economic development of the People’s Republic of China has created an increasing demand for usable land, resulting in large-scale land reclamations along the coastal zone. One of these regions is Tongzhou Bay (Jiangsu coast), a region charac...
The purpose of this article is to offer a literature review on the development and classification of inland terminals, later defined as “dry ports”. The aim of the paper is to analyze the extant literature on dry ports focusing on their concept, clas...
Small and medium-sized ports are currently underutilised within supply and logistics chains, yet many can be successfully integrated through optimisation. A significant share is located near large cities and industrial zones, a situation that can be...
We neglected to state that the radar data from Tokushima and Anan is owned by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Shikoku Regional Development Bureau, Komatsushima port and airport office, Japan. Lipa et al. [1] describe resu...
The port of Tangier Med is essential due to its strategic location, as it is an important trading center linking Europe, North America, and Africa. However, the increased rates of downstream sediment transportation put pressure on the sustainable fut...
Demand for freshwater is rising with factors, such as population growth, land use change and climate variations, rendering water availability in the future uncertain. Groundwater resources are being increasingly exploited to meet this growing demand...
Calculating the energy consumption and carbon footprint is essential for maritime industry sustainability, driving informed decisions and innovation. This study assesses the energy consumption and carbon footprint of the Port of Sines in Portugal to...
Ports are important network nodes for cargo transportation between cities and even countries, and they play vital roles in stimulating urban economies. However, at the same time, port production activities also consume various resources, such as wate...
Breakwaters are characteristic maritime works and provide basic infrastructure for artificial sea and land areas such as ports [...]
This study introduces global path planning for autonomous ships in port environments, with a focus on the Port of Ulsan, where various environmental factors are modeled for analysis. Global path planning is considered to take place from departure to...
The Brazilian port sector faces an urgent need for modernization to meet the demands of the contemporary global economy. A significant challenge lies in the shallow depth of access channels, which hinders the navigation of larger ships with deeper dr...
A hazard zoning map is the most essential tool during the crisis management cycle’s prevention and risk reduction phase. In this study, a geographic information system (GIS) is applied to the crisis management of ports through the preparation o...
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