Modernization of the Infrastructure of Marine Passenger Port Based on Synthesis of the Structure and Forecasting Development

Srećko Krile, Nikolai Maiorov and Vladimir Fetisov
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Srećko Krile: Electrical Engineering and Computing Department, University of Dubrovnik, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia
Nikolai Maiorov: Department of Systems Analysis and Logistics, Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation 2, 190000 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Vladimir Fetisov: Department of Systems Analysis and Logistics, Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation 2, 190000 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-11

Abstract: Passenger seaports are new starting-points of urban development. They form a new independent industry, become new incentives for improving urban infrastructure and increase the tourist attractiveness of the city itself and the region. In view of changes in passenger service processes, changes in route ferry and cruise networks, due to COVID-19, the heads of ports and terminals set new strategic tasks to determine the directions for infrastructure modernization and forecast development. The regions of the Adriatic and Baltic Seas were chosen as the experimental base. To find new answers, it is necessary to solve the problem of synthesizing the structure of a sea passenger port, taking into account all processes and services, the influence of the external environment, building a system of target functions and limiting conditions. Thus, the necessity of forming informed decisions on modernization based on the construction of new mathematical models is substantiated. A new function has been introduced that describes the influence of the external environment. Particular attention is given to the study of the mutual influence of the city and the sea passenger port in order to determine the need to improve transport accessibility and change the near-port transport space. The presented models of structure synthesis and target functions, models including functions of the influence of the external environment on the system “city infrastructure-sea passenger port-ferry company” allow at a qualitatively new level to solve the problem of forecasting development and form a system making decisions to improve the position of the passenger terminal in the sea region. The developed models and synthesis problem formation are applicable to sea passenger ports and terminals in other regions of the seas. The models are applicable both at the stage of creating a new marine terminal and during the study and subsequent modernization of the infrastructure. The presented new models allow the port manager to give answers to the questions of strategic development of sea passenger ports in sea regions.

Keywords: structure synthesis; modeling; ferry network; cruise network; mathematical model; the Baltic Sea region; sea passenger port (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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