Modern transportation helped define Italian colonialism and Eritrea was the hub linking other colonies of Somalia, Libya and Ethiopia.
The model minimizes the cost of the proprietor, including the fixed costs of hubs, hub links and spoke links.
Rwanda wants to be a regional trade hub, linking all the areas where Kinyarwanda is spoken (see map).
"We expect things to improve .Mr Ghani dreams of relaunching Afghanistan as a trade hub, linking Central and South Asia and the Caucasus.
It has ordered 58 A380s, each with nearly 500 seats, as it strives to make Dubai a major international travel hub, linking Europe and North America to the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
Hierarchical multimodal hub location problem is a cost-minimizing hub covering problem where two types of hubs and hub links, accounting for ground and air transportation, are to be established, while ensuring time-definite deliveries.
On a more general policy level, Corbyn is promising a nationwide broadband and mobile network, and an online learning hub linked to another of his proposed ideas, a national education service.
"I think there is a sort of vision developing between Syria and Turkey where they could serve jointly as a regional trade hub, linking Europe with the Gulf and other parts of the East," said Nabil Sukkar, a Damascus-based economic analyst.
NESTLED at the foot of the Pyrenees near the Basque country in southwestern France, the town of Pau is home to Total's global research center and a communication hub linking its global operations.
The lock at Old Ford, for example, will be a crucial hub linking the Olympic park with the towpaths and Victoria park, yet the lock crossings were designed for a single bargeman.
Along with neighbouring Burundi, Rwanda will join the East African Community in 2007 a big step in its plan to become a bilingual trade hub linking French-speaking central Africa with English-speaking east Africa.
