This article introduces a new method to model sailing routes before the age of steam based on real-world sailing conditions. Using a broad range of historical meteorological data, it offers monthly routing predictions for historical shipping corridors and tests them against historical evidence. In this article the model was applied to French and British ports. The output reveals the presence of historical shipping corridors and offer the first journey-time metrics to and from all European ports.
Publisher
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Published On
May 24, 2024
Authors
Alexis D. Litvine, Joseph Lewis, Arthur W. Starzec
Tags
sailing routes
historical shipping
meteorological data
European ports
journey-time metrics
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