RELATED DISCIPLINES
Connect the geography of flows with perspectives from economics, geopolitics, history, logistics, environmental research, or risk analysis.
MODELING AND SIMULATING GLOBAL TRADE GEOGRAPHIES
Collaborations
Deep Frontiers develops a computational geography of global flows based on the physical networks that make them possible. The project is currently centered on maritime transport and its relationship with international trade.
We are interested in collaborations with related disciplines and organizations that bring complementary data, domain expertise, or strategic and sector-specific questions.
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Open directions for collaboration
Strategic questions
Explore dependencies, concentrations, routing alternatives, and the effects of network configurations that modify accessibility, constraints, or cost functions.
Data and domain expertise
Confront computed results with operational practice, sector knowledge, or complementary non-public datasets.
Risk and exposure
Examine how the structure of networks and flows concentrates or redistributes exposure across different network configurations.
These collaborations may involve academic teams, public institutions, think tanks, or organizations with direct expertise in networks, flows, and their associated risks.
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Ways to collaborate
Scientific dialogue
Connect the Deep Frontiers framework with research questions, disciplines, or complementary expertise.
Data and empirical comparison
Test computed results against complementary data, observations, or empirical knowledge.
Joint experiments
Build a focused scenario or case study around a question of shared scientific interest.
Research outlook
The maritime network is currently the technical core of Deep Frontiers. Over time, the research program aims to examine connections with other transport and infrastructure networks, including road, rail, and energy networks, in order to study flows at a broader global scale.
The maritime network is currently the technical core of Deep Frontiers. Over time, the research program aims to examine connections with other transport and infrastructure networks, including road, rail, and energy networks, in order to study flows at a broader global scale.
Scientific origins and research program
The geography of flows is a research area pursued by Régis Darques and Éric Carroll. The need for usable maritime routes for this research led Éric Carroll to conceive and develop the Deep Frontiers Platform, whose core is built around a continuous computational representation of navigable space in which routes are generated from network configurations.
The platform already integrates harmonized trade data and simulation environments connecting commodity categories, regions, ports, routes, and network configurations. Forthcoming scientific work will be developed jointly by Éric Carroll and Régis Darques to examine the geography, evolution, and transformation of global flows.
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Team
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Research environment
Deep Frontiers is developed within ESPACE (UMR 7300), a joint research unit of CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Avignon Université, and Université Côte d’Azur.
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Discuss a collaboration
Working on a strategic question, dataset, or area of expertise related to global networks and flows? Get in touch to discuss a potential research collaboration.