HARBOURS & COASTS
MASTER PLAN FOR THE PORT OF TRIESTE – ITALY

Client: Trieste Port Authority

Services: Co-ordination of preliminary studies and preparation of the port master plan. Environmental impact assessment study. Preliminary design of some marine works.

Period: 1998 -  2001

Construction Cost:  N.D

The Project:

The activities for the elaboration of the Port Master Plan are carried out in three phases: a cognitive phase, a forecasting phase and a proposal phase.

• The cognitive phase, consists in the acquisition and analysis of all the information related to the multiple aspects of the port system: from juridical, programming and organizational matters to port and transport structures and infrastructures, traffic, etc.

• The forecasting phase consists in the identification of the alternative scenarios of the development of freight and passenger traffic through the port of Trieste up to 2020. To this end, a proven demand evaluation model calibrated and used for studies by the European Commission. It evaluates the potential demand for freight and passenger transport, on the basis of the relationship between the demand determined by the macro-economic development of the E.U. countries, Eastern European countries and the major freight Origin-Destination areas and the transport infrastructure supply.

• The proposal phase the consists of the identification of: the infrastructural and functional requirements in order to acquire the potential traffic, the possible alternative solutions and, finally, the preferred solution.
  
  The proposals were elaborated on the basis of the results of the forecasting phase, translated into infrastructural requirements (extension of the quays, mechanical equipment, yards etc. to cope with the expected traffic). This was followed by a preliminary study of sectorial solutions, not necessarily congruent with one another, and subsequently the elaboration of the overall solutions, combining the sectorial ones,  with a view to identifying the optimum solution from the technical point of view (functionality, economic validity, compatibility with the urban and environmental setting, etc.)
  
  The output of the proposal phase is the proposed Master Plan, which illustrates briefly the results of the supporting analyses and which places the design solution in the urban context. The Master Plan contains the implementation criteria, the limits of the validity of the Plan in terms of space and time, the guidelines and the regulations.
  
  The contract also included the execution of  a series of related studies to support the analyses or to illustrate the Plan itself, such as the environmental impact study, the setting up of a computerised information system, the preliminary design of some of the works, and model studies of the wave and navigation conditions inside the port
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