Implementation of Sustainable Motorways of the Sea Services Multi-Criteria Analysis of a Croatian Port System

Dražen Žgaljić, Edvard Tijan, Alen Jugović and Tanja Poletan Jugović
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Dražen Žgaljić: Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Edvard Tijan: Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Alen Jugović: Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Tanja Poletan Jugović: Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 23, 1-21

Abstract: Motorways of the Sea present a practical example of combined and sustainable transport. With respect to the present model of functionality of the transport system in the Republic of Croatia, where the development of the port and of the gravitational transport system is left to each individual port (six independent ports), and where there is no systematic approach to specialization of each port or route, the results of the analysis are not promising. The goal of this research is to explain why the current Motorways of the Sea implementation model is inefficient and unsustainable. The analysis shows that a scientific approach to multicriteria analysis, which includes the identification of all relevant factors, the analysis of the transport infrastructure, as well as the identification of criteria which could potentially affect the Motorways of the Sea system, can correctly define the optimal model for the implementation of a sustainable Motorways of the Sea system.

Keywords: Motorways of the Sea; port system; multi-criteria analysis; Republic of Croatia; scenarios; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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