Application of Multi-Criteria Analysis of Determining Sea Port Development Models in the Spatial Concept of a Town, Based on the Example of the Town of Rovinj

Sa？etak A significant problem in port and port area development is the awareness that port development plans for county and local ports brought by port authorities in the capacity of a body managing the port and its port area, are often not covered by town and county physical planning solutions, and vice versa. The above said indicates that relevant parties in port area planning (port management and towns/countries) are not always active participants in the procedure of planning the ports and port areas in physical planning documents. County spatial plans do not pay necessary attention to the role, significance and development of the ports of county and local relevance. Drafting the spatial plans related to the ports of county and local relevance demands high level of expertise and multidisciplinary approach, as well as knowledge on the problem of physical planning, port operation and marine and coastal biology, maritime traffic technology and maritime environment protection. The purpose and the goal of this paper is to find the optimum model and measures for developing county and local ports in relation to the complementarity of spatial concept of the port and the town. For the purpose of defining and setting up the model, we used the most important indicators and measures that influence the level of physical planning of the port and the town. The example of Town of Rovinj will serve for checking and proving efficiency of the set-up model