Stakeholder salience and prioritization for port master planning, a case study of the multi-purpose Port of Isafjordur in Iceland

• Published in: European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
• Main Authors: Majid Eskafi, Reza Fazeli, Ali Dastgheib, Poonam Taneja, Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson, Ragnheidur I. Thorarinsdottir, Gunnar Stefansson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: TU Delft OPEN Publishing 2019
• Subjects: Transportation engineering; TA1001-1280; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18757/ejtir.2019.19.3.4386; https://doaj.org/article/1fc8832fc42f4be78f598b0400e09496

The dynamic and ever-increasing complex nature of a port system involves a variety of stakeholders with a broad spectrum of involvement and objectives. In the port master planning, to fulfill the objectives of the various stakeholders and manage conflicts and controversies, a stakeholder analysis is carried out. However, effective and timely engagement of the key stakeholders in the planning process is not an easy task. This paper presents a framework of stakeholder analysis for the case study of the Multi-Purpose Port of Isafjordur in Iceland to underpin the master planning process. The framework deals with a systematic procedure of identification, grouping and then static mapping of stakeholders by means of the power-interest matrix. Further, the fuzzy logic 3-dimensional decision surface was adopted for dynamic salience mapping of the