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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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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

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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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Policy Recommendations on EU sustainable mobility concepts based on the results of CIVITAS experience

Within the CIVITAS POINTER project, TRT, in cooperation with CDV, has drawn this document (edited by CIVITAS VANGUARD) on the main findings arising from the evaluation of the CIVITAS Plus Collaborative Projects (CPs), the most comprehensive and thematically broad phase of CIVITAS which ran from 2008-2012. Based on the evaluation results of the CIVITAS Plus edition and on the legacy of the previous editions, the aim of the document is to build a solid conceptual framework that allows for a thorough analysis of the elements needed to drive a successful shift towards sustainable urban mobility. Policy makers are thus provided with contemporary facts for debating purposes, and a number of conclusions and recommendations are provided in relation to each of the eight thematic area of CIVITAS PLUS. In the final section, the document delineates the main challenges that cities will have to cope with over the next decade and the role that urban mobility will play in shaping the attractiveness and liveability of European cities. In the next future, decision makers at different levels should consider more and more some key issues as: the need to develop policy packages of integrated measures, to intervene in major populated cities, to carefully consider each territorial peculiarity and to commit to develop policy actions in cooperation with local entities and representatives.

Authors: Simone Bosetti, Patrizia Malgieri, Caterina Di Bartolo, Alessio Sitran, Hana Brůhová-Foltýnová, Petr Kurfürst, Radomíra Jordová, Danuše Smutková

July 2014

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