A Study on Policy Priority Analysis for Port Air Quality Improvement: Focusing on Ports in the Metropolitan Area

The port areas in the metropolitan area maintain higher concentrations of air pollution throughout the year compared to other port areas, so air pollution management is urgently needed. Air pollutant emissions from ports in the metropolitan area were analyzed to be more than twice the national average. Despite these circumstances, analyses and studies on the sustainable and feasible port air quality improvement policy measures for the port areas in the metropolitan area are insufficient. In this respect, the purpose of this study was to derive policy priorities for improving air quality in the metropolitan ports. As for the method of the study, the CFPR (Consistent Fuzzy Preference Relation) method, which can integrate and analyze the opinions of experts, was used. As a result of the analysis, in the overall weight ranking, the first, second, and third places were shown to be the strengthening of the ship fuel sulfur content standard, the expansion of eco-friendly ships, and the expansion of support for ship emission reduction devices, respectively. That is, all of the first, second, and third detailed factors were analyzed as policies related to vessel-oriented air pollutant reduction. In particular, most of the policy items ranked at the top were analyzed as policy factors that require strong regulatory policies, large-scale financial inputs, and government facility subsidy policies. This study has implications in that it presents useful policy measures that can be applied practically to policy makers to improve port air quality.