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César Ducruet is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences, with a primary focus on the subfields of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Transportation, Building and Construction, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered in César Ducruet's work include:

  • Maritime Ports and Logistics
  • Economic Zones and Regional Development
  • Global trade and economics
  • Cruise Tourism Development and Management
  • Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency
  • Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

Their research output includes publications in a range of scholarly venues, notably:

  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Maritime Policy & Management
  • Networks and Spatial Economics
  • International Encyclopedia of Geography

Frequent co-authors in César Ducruet's publications include Hidekazu Itoh, Bárbara Polo Martín, Ling Sun, Justin Berli, and M. Sène, reflecting collaborative work across different aspects of maritime and transport research.

Significant recent papers by César Ducruet are:

  • The geography of maritime networks: A critical review, 2020, Journal of Transport Geography
  • Ports and their influence on local air pollution and public health: A global analysis, 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Port specialization and connectivity in the global maritime network, 2020, Maritime Policy & Management
  • Urban gravity in the global container shipping network, 2020, Journal of Transport Geography

Additional related work by collaborators includes "Measuring the effect of distance on the network topology of the Global Container Shipping Network," published in 2021 in Scientific Reports.

César Ducruet is also the author of a book published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2020 titled Global Logistics Network Modelling and Policy. Quantification and Analysis for International Freight.

Best Publications

  • The worldwide maritime network of container shipping : Spatial structure and regional dynamics

    César Ducruet;Theo Notteboom

  • A tale of Asia’s world ports: The spatial evolution in global hub port cities

    Sung-Woo Lee;Dong-Wook Song;César Ducruet

  • Frontline soldiers of globalisation: Port–city evolution and regional competition

    César Ducruet;Sung-Woo Lee

  • Centrality and vulnerability in liner shipping networks : revisiting the Northeast Asian port hierarchy

    César Ducruet;Sung-Woo Lee;Adolf Ng

  • Integrating world cities into production networks : the case of port cities

    Wouter Jacobs;Cesar Ducruet;Peter De Langen

  • Ports in multi-level maritime networks: Evidence from the Atlantic (1996-2006)

    César Ducruet;Céline Rozenblat;Faraz Zaidi

  • Spatial Science and Network Science: Review and Outcomes of a Complex Relationship

    César Ducruet;Laurent Beauguitte

  • Maritime constellations: a complex network approach to shipping and ports

    César Ducruet;Faraz Zaidi

  • Network diversity and maritime flows

    César Ducruet

  • Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: between flows and spaces

    Adolf K.Y. Ng;César Ducruet;Wouter Jacobs;Jason Monios

  • Multilayer dynamics of complex spatial networks: The case of global maritime flows (1977–2008)

    César Ducruet

  • Ports in Proximity: Competition and Coordination among Adjacent Seaports

    T.E. Notteboom;C. Ducruet;P.W. de Langen

  • New port development and global city making: emergence of the Shanghai-Yangshan multilayered gateway hub

    Chengjin Wang;César Ducruet

  • The geography of maritime networks: A critical review

    César Ducruet

  • Port Regions and Globalization

    César Ducruet

  • Port-city relationships in Europe and Asia

    César Ducruet

  • Maritime networks as systems of cities : the long-term interdependencies between global shipping flows and urban development (1890-2010)

    César Ducruet;Sylvain Cuyala;Ali El Hosni

  • The changing tides of port geography (1950–2012):

    Adolf K.Y. Ng;César Ducruet

  • Spatial Glocalization in Asia-Pacific Hub Port Cities: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore

    Sung-Woo Lee;César Ducruet

  • Going West? Spatial Polarization of the North Korean Port System

    César Ducruet;Stanislas Roussin;Jin-Cheol Jo

  • Transport integration at European ports

    César Ducruet;Martijn van der Horst

  • The polarization of global container flows by interoceanic canals

    César Ducruet

Frequent Co-Authors

Adolf K.Y. Ng
Adolf K.Y. Ng Hong Kong Baptist University
Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan University
Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Jean-Paul Rodrigue Texas A&M University

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