Table 1 List of Abbreviations & Symbols
From: A path-based approach to analyzing the global liner shipping network
Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
IMR | Iterative Minimum Route |
AIS | Automatic Identification System |
TEU | Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit |
\(G_{c}=(V_{c}, E_{c})\) | Directed co-route graph |
R | Set of routes r∈R traversing ports \(p_{i}\), e.g. \(r=\langle p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots , p_{\ell }\rangle \) |
\(\ell _{r}\) | Length in edges of a route r∈R |
| Minimum-route paths between ports s and t with distance d |
| Minimum-route distance between ports s and t |
\(D_{\max }\) | Maximum minimum-route distance among all pairs |
\(\eta _{d}\) | # of pairs at minimum-route distance d |
\(p_{d}\) | Max # of minimum-route paths between any pair at distance d |
\(\textbf{A}_{i,j}\) | Adjacency matrix of the path graph (unless otherwise specified) |
PG | Path graph |
DCRG | Directed Co-route graph |
UCRG | Undirected Co-route graph |
∗-betw | Betweenness in ∗ representation |
∗-deg | Degree in ∗ representation |
