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Road Connections Affecting the Competitiveness Strengthening of the Port of Ploče

Due to its geographical situation, the port of Ploče has become a junction of land and sea routes within the Transport Corridor Vc, as a part of the Mediterranean Transport Corridor, passing through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Hungary. The paper deals with the analysis of the connecting roads leading from the port of Ploče as well as with the evaluation of the respective road traffic volume. Although the congestion on certain road sections is related to the tourist transit traffic, the road traffic volume at the Transport Corridor Vc within Bosnia and Herzegovina indicates the need for the construction of a motorway to stretch out the Corridor. The planned modernisation will fundamentally improve the main road infrastructure on the Transport Corridor Vc that will facilitate the transport of goods and enable shorter travel time from the port of Ploče to the hinterland. Considering that the major portion of the freight transport from the port of Ploče uses road transport services, the envisaged modernisation will significantly increase competitiveness of the port, mostly due to the intermodal transport mode.

A model of the selection of an optimal railroad route by applying the multiple-criteria analysis

Original scientific paper The problems of choosing an optimal solution for the position of the route of infrastructural facilities is present in most developed countries. The primary problem is the identification and objective consideration of all influencing factors. The aim of this paper is to show that with the application of multiplecriteria analysis, conclusions related to the evaluation and selection of the appropriate railroad route can be reached in the process of planning and design. This paper provides an overview of the possible consideration and evaluation of alternative railroad route solutions. To achieve the goal of research, a model of the selection of an optimal railroad route by using the multiple-criteria analysis has been set. The proposed theoretical model was applied for the selection of the railroad route that connects Rijeka, Koper, and Trieste.

Forecast for Lorry Traffic – Example of State Road D – 404 in Rijeka City

The study presents an analysis of the impact produced by the construction and modernization of road connections on the improvement and development of the port of Rijeka container terminal and on the growth of its competitiveness on the northern Adriatic traffic route. The paper focuses on the smoothing technique implementation as a quantitative prognostic method for road traffic. Considering the importance of container traffic within the total freight traffic in the port of Rijeka, prognostics is presented for lorry traffic on State road D – 404, which connects the container terminal of Brajdica to the expressway network to the hinterland. Thereby, the potential substratum gravitating to the container terminal and to the pertaining traffic route has been evaluated. Following description of the geographical, traffic-related and logistic situation of the port of Rijeka, the paper continues with technical and technological features of the container terminal of Brajdica and, in addition, with the significance of State road D – 404 for development of the container terminal of Brajdica and an analysis of lorry traffic trends on State road D – 404. Whereas there are confirmed assertions that there are significant differences found quite often between projected values and those ones actually obtained, the expected traffic trend values obtained by applying the smoothing technique using the moving averages method for 2017 have been assessed as satisfactory.