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TRIP Research Theme Analysis Report – Transport Infrastructure

The new report from the European Commission funded Transport Research Innovation Portal (TRIP) provides a comprehensive review of multimodal transport infrastructure research performed by European businesses, public organisations and academic institutions.

It offers a rare snapshot of the current infrastructure research and innovation landscape to help focus policy makers, stakeholders and researchers on areas to improve the accessibility and performance of transport systems across Europe.

The report covers six interlinked sub themes of transport infrastructure development: planning; assessment; pricing, funding and financing; construction; management and governance; and monitoring and maintenance.

Research projects included in the report are drawn from the online Transport Research Innovation Portal (TRIP) – a free to access, European Commission funded portal for EU professionals to share and discuss innovations in transport mobility.

Co-Authors: Claudia de Stasio, Cosimo Chiffi, Alessio Sitran, Riccardo Parolin, Silvia Maffii (TRT)

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Governance framework of public transport in Lombardy

An update on governance framework of local public transport in Lombardy, paper by Patrizia Malgieri on SmartCity & MobilityLab n. 18

With the new year, the public transport basin authority of Milan, Monza and Brianza, Pavia, and Lodi started the activity to make operative its governance framework. The Public Transport Agency instituted by regional law needed a considerable amount of time to kickstart and some months to be operative. in November 2016 it finally constituted and, with the nomination of its director, started the activity to make it operative. Three aspects are faced in this paper: the Agency presentation, its functions, and the reference and the evolutive scenarios.

January-February 2017

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The EU maritime transport system: focus on ferries

This study provides a concise overview of passenger ferries as part of the EU Maritime Transport System, focussing on their role in contributing to multimodality.

The ferry industry is analysed across spatial scales, from urban to long distance, and with respect to its implications within an economic context. This study outlines the ferry industry from a wide perspective: technological developments and innovations are also addressed in view of applicable environmental regulations.

Authors: Angelo Martino, Marco Brambilla

November 2016

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Latest CIVITAS Policy Note – Smart choices for cities “Cities towards mobility 2.0: connect, share and go!”

Within the consortium of the CIVITAS WIKI project, TRT was responsible for drafting the second Policy Note, focusing on the topic of shared mobility. With this policy note, CIVITAS WIKI intends to provide cities with a comprehensive overview on shared-mobility concepts and practices. It also aims to offer guidance to decision makers, policy makers and urban mobility professionals in identifying opportunities and challenges of shared mobility for their cities.
In recent years, shared-mobility services have had an increasing impact on urban mobility in many countries around the world. Shared-mobility services have developed in many forms: some of them are already tried and tested, while others are relatively new and have yet to achieve their full potential. They range from the more traditional car sharing, ride sharing and bike sharing services to more innovative solutions of ride sourcing services and car park sharing. Also, novel shared-mobility services are becoming increasingly available for goods and urban freight deliveries. The new mobility paradigm has relevant impacts on cities and their mobility planning strategies and plans, seeking to address several questions. How can cities best manage the emergence of these new shared-mobility services? How can the relationship between private and public interests best be managed? What benefits and opportunities can be identified and exploited at city level? What challenges and potential negative impacts need to be taken into account?

Authors: Caterina Di Bartolo, Simone Bosetti, Claudia de Stasio, Patrizia Malgieri; Ivan Uccelli (infographic)

July 2016

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EU Survey on issues related to transport and mobility

The outcomes of the survey carried out by TRT on mobility in the EU28 countries are now available in a JRC Science and Policy report. The survey was carried out in 2014 with the objective of gathering a number of transport and mobility indicators on individuals mobility at both urban and long-distance level in a uniform way as well as knowledge and preferences on emerging transport technologies and the acceptability of transport policy measures. The CAWI (Computer Aided Web Interview) survey covered all 28 Member States of the European Union with the same questionnaire translated in the local languages. Samples of 1000 individuals in each country reflected the composition of adult population (from 16 years on) in terms of gender, age class, employment status, education level and living region. The survey provided a rich and comparable picture of mobility across the 28 EU countries. The report presents the main results of the survey and highlights similarities and differences among countries.

Authors: FIORELLO Davide, ZANI Loredana, CHRISTIDIS Panayotis, NAVAJAS CAWOOD Elena

October 2014

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CIVITAS Policy Note – Smart choices for cities “Making urban freight logistics more sustainable”

Within the consortium of the CIVITAS WIKI project, TRT was responsible for drafting this Policy Note, focusing on the topic of urban freight logistics.
Freight distribution is a vital part of life in modern cities and plays a relevant role within the whole urban mobility system. Although urban freight systems have not received much attention to date, actual demographic trends showing an increasing urbanization, together with the pervasive role of information and communication technologies and the consistent growth of e-commerce are bound to pose further challenges to the urban freight system. Among the different components of urban mobility, urban freight logistics is in fact traditionally considered as the least sustainable because of its evident negative impacts (generating noise and pollutant emissions, increasing congestion and posing a threat to the safety of road users).
That is why it is necessary to encourage the reflection upon these issues, the sharing of experiences and best practices between cities and the raising of awareness among decision-makers in order to trigger alternative, and more sustainable, approaches to urban freight planning.

Authors: Tito Stefanelli, Caterina Di Bartolo, Giuseppe Galli, Enrico Pastori, Hans Quack, Ivan Uccelli (infographics)

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L’indagine sui costi del trasporto internazionale delle merci in Italia: metodi e risultati

This paper presents the mothodology applied and main results of the sample survey on international freight that Banca d’Italia carries out every year. Goods transport costs and market shares of italian and international shipping companies are extimated on the basis of sample surveys and administrative data.

Authors: Enrico Pastori, Miriam Tagliavia, Enrico Tosti e Simonetta Zappa

October 2014

Paper available only in italian

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Seconda CIVITAS Policy Note – Smart choices for cities “Gender equality and mobility: mind the gap!”

Within the consortium of the CIVITAS WIKI project, TRT was responsible for drafting the second Policy Note, focussing on the topic of gender sensitive mobility planning. Firstly, the document seeks to offer an insight on the most relevant social and economic trends that affect gender transport demand and determine the main differences in women’s travel patterns: shorter distances, more use of public transportation, more non-work travel outside rush hours and more multi-stop trips. In the second section the document investigates the policies that have been adopted in different contexts across Europe in favour of gender-sensitive transport planning and in the last section it formulates some recommendations in relation to some key-priority issues: the enhancement of knowledge on the theme (need for updated gender data and statistics), the support of women’s participation in decision-making, the services improvement (tariffs, timetables, routes and stops) for all categories of users (with particular attention to women, children and elderly) in relation to accessibility, safety and comfort of transport modes and the planning of transport services in response to gender needs.

Authors: Silvia Maffii, Patrizia Malgieri and Caterina Di Bartolo

September  2014

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