Valuation of Transport Service Characteristics Relevant for the Establishment of Fast Inter-City Lines in Sea-Borne Passenger Traffic

Senka Šekularac Ivošević,Veljko Plazibat,Maja Krčum

doi:10.7225/toms.v07.n02.007

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Abstract

This paper analyses and evaluates major characteristics of transport services relevant for the organization of fast inter-city lines in maritime passenger transport. Service characteristics that have been subjected to research and assessment include: 1) individual travel costs, 2) travel duration, 3) travel safety, 4) social costs of transport, 5) ability to create a traffic service and 6) other elements of the traffic service. Using descriptive statistics and growth matrix, the analysis reveals that the Ability to create a traffic service and Travel duration, both having direct growth rates of 75 %, will have the largest impact on the establishment of fast inter-city sea-borne lines, followed by the Social costs of transport with the direct growth rate of 68.42 %. The impact of other transport service characteristics on the organization of fast inter-city lines in maritime passenger transport is estimated as moderate.

Highlights

The transport and maritime policies of the Republic of Croatia contain strategic development guidelines that rather loosely define the need to strike a balance between different transportation systems, which is necessary for the improvement of the transport network, traffic safety, environmental conditions, travel duration and, in particular, given the fact that Croatia has become a full member of the European Union in which finding a balance between traffic modes is one of key transport policy objectives
When indirect growth rates of other service characteristics in maritime passenger traffic are compared with travel duration (Figure 4), the highest growth rates are clearly achieved by social costs of transport (81.25 %) and the ability to create sea-borne passenger traffic service (75 %)
The requirements for establishing fast sea-borne inter-city passenger lines in the Republic of Croatia arise from the need to redirect passenger traffic from overburdened road infrastructure to seaways

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INTRODUCTION

The transport and maritime policies of the Republic of Croatia contain strategic development guidelines that rather loosely define the need to strike a balance between different transportation systems, which is necessary for the improvement of the transport network, traffic safety, environmental conditions, travel duration and, in particular, given the fact that Croatia has become a full member of the European Union in which finding a balance between traffic modes is one of key transport policy objectives. Europe's maritime interests mostly revolve around the welfare, prosperity and security of its citizens and communities (Moise, 2015) In this respect, Croatia’s efforts to introduce intercity maritime transport are insufficient in cargo trade and very poor in passenger traffic, the latter is deemed to have great potential. The research, formulation and presentation of research results in this paper are based on scientific methods, including analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretisation, descriptive statistics and growth matrix as one of the valuable tools for the evaluation of the transport service characteristics relevant for the organization of fast inter-city lines in maritime passenger transport in the Republic of Croatia

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