TY - JOUR AU - Beckers, Joris AU - Thomas, Isabelle AU - Vanoutrive, Thomas AU - Verhetsel, Ann PY - 2018/04/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Logistics clusters, including inter-firm relations through community detection JF - European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research JA - EJTIR VL - 18 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.18757/ejtir.2018.18.2.3229 UR - https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/ejtir/article/view/3229 SP - AB - <p>This paper studies clusters in the logistics sector. Like traditional cluster research, indicators of concentration to detect co-location of employment are calculated. However, this approach is enhanced by including a quantitative analysis of the inter-firm relations between logistics companies through the use of a community detection algorithm on a microeconomic dataset of buyer-supplier relations. Combining both results in a typology of logistics clusters. Next to the big clusters characterized by employment concentration and many internal and external relations, spill-over and polycentric clusters are identified. This approach seems promising to detect in future research clusters in other sectors and places</p> ER -