Investigating the effect of Arctic sea routes on the global maritime container transport system via a generalized Nash equilibrium model

• Main Authors: Yangjun, Wang, Ren, Zhang, Shanshan, Ge, Longxia, Qian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2018
• Subjects: Container shipping; Stackelberg game model; global warming; Northern Sea Route; Northeast Passage; Arctic; Nash; Global warming; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3405

This paper proposes a generalized Nash equilibrium model to investigate if Arctic routes can be used as a “relief valve” for current intercontinental sea routes. This model is presented as a Stackelberg form, where the shipping companies correspond to the leaders and the customers correspond to the...