D.4.4.2. Analysis on the environmental impact of passenger (cruise) ships in port of Rovinj

An econometric model was built from scratch just for the purpose of the MIMOSA EU project. The econometric model that was developed for this purpose was used in the analysis of the impact of passenger ships (cruisers) on air quality in the port of Rovinj. The guiding thought was finding a way to separate the effect of passenger ships (cruisers) and emissions given off by these transportation means from the other sources of emissions be it naturally occurring or emitted due to human and connected activities. In order to perform a two-step econometric analysis, the entire time period that was analysed is divided into two subsamples - the time period in which the specified passenger vessels (cruisers) are not present (base period – lower frequency period) and the period in which the specified vessels are present (active period - higher frequency period)…