Un approccio dinamico allargato per la valutazione dell’attività portuale

Abstract

This paper does not aim to simply highlight the need of elaborating a broader concept of the transport investment evaluation techniques. The objectives are the following: • a critical definition of the port function; • said that, an analysis about the way of evaluating port activities over time. The original aspects which are considered are concerned with the definition of the purposes for which a port is built and that must be pursued over time. The need to implement an economic process of analysis of the port activities stems from this in such a way to put principles and techniques of the welfare economics in a dynamic contest