Despite efficient carbon monitoring system and the commercialization of battery technology for intra-port transportation, port management are found not adopting these environmental yet costly equipments. Port authority who regulates environmental policies lacks leverage to impose tangible reduction on emission through concession. This model integrates sustainability into port equipment expansio...

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 construction land transfer data in Ningbo’s central city from 2002 to 2015. Equality fan analysis and kernel density analysis were applied to charac...

Globalization and transport revolution, logistics integration, and the consequent expansion of port area and hinterland in the maritime industry have redefined the functional role of ports in supply chains and have generated a new pattern of freight distribution. This phenomenon again requires a new approach towards port development and related urban planning. Such changes have inevitably influ...

This led to the planning and implementation of an aggressive expansion project, including the construction of a new port zone that is estimated to take ten to twenty years to complete and cost over US $1.2 billion. The project will be implemented over two phases: the first from 20092014 and the second from 2015-2019. It is expected to increase the port’s capacity from 35.6 million to over 100 m...

Abst rac t We develop a new governance perspective on port–hinterland linkages and related port impacts. Many stakeholders in a port’s hinterland now demand tangible economic benefits from port activities, as a precondition for supporting port expansion and infrastructural investments. We use a governance lens to assess this farsighted contracting challenge. We find that most contemporary econo...

A development vision system is described in this paper. It contains an ALTERA FPGA (20K100), an interface with a digital camera, three VRAM memories to contain the data input and some output memories (a VRAM and a EDO) to contain the results. The aim of this system is to develop and test vision algorithms, such as image compression, optical flow calculation with differential and correlation met...

Chinese ports investment theory and practice are still in infant, have been unable to adapt to the future port of the actual needs of sustainable development.The managerial flexibility involved in the contingent investment can be described and valued by expansive real options, the port investment in the expansion of the integrated value function model is established. The model is set up to calc...