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Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Secchi Carlo

Development and Wellbeing A Question of Works

The economic development and fortunes of States over the centuries have been sustained and often conditioned by the construction of infrastructure. This has allowed many backwards and economically depressed regions to reach excellent levels of prosperity. In addition, the system of infrastructure has had, and still has, an evident geopolitical impact. In that regard, the Treaty of Rome of 1957 expressly ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Conti Ilaria

TAP: a Priority for Europe. And for Italy?

The TAP (Trans Adriatic Pipeline) is one of the so-called PCIs, the projects considered as priority for the European Union’s energy policy. As it crosses through Italy to reach the markets of Northern Europe, our country should benefit from a whole series of indirect advantages deriving from this infrastructure.#These are linked mainly to the certainty of supplies and the geopolitical and strategic ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Chiaramonte Xenia

TAV: the Project that Doesn’t Exist

The high-speed rail line is not the first major project concerning the Val Susa area: there was the “ecological highway,” then the power line, and now the high-speed train line (TAV). Initially, the opposition led by the Habitat Committee against a “conception of the territory as a passive resource” was low-key, but it served to arouse the population.#The No TAV message is clear and summed ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Nanni Gabriele, Zanchini Edoardo

New Mobility for the Country

From 2002 to date, 60 percent of state funding has gone to investments in roads and highways. Yet 42 percent of the national population lives in urban areas, where there is the largest infrastructure gap with respect to the rest of Europe, and above all, where we find most of the demand for transport. To deal with that demand, there should be an increase in the number of trains in circulation, starting ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Cappelli Agostino

Where the Rail System Begins

From the Kingdom of Italy to the new 2016 procurement code, the history of the Italian railway system shows how the succession of different political objectives and legislative changes has made the role of evaluation techniques very difficult, too often leaving to political decisions, with can change rapidly, the task of planning and financing the works. In our country, this has generated numerous ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Acciaro Michele

What Future for Italian Ports

Given our country’s geographical structure and history, it is not surprising that the Italian port system features a wide variety in terms of infrastructure, volumes, commercial activities, efficiency, and development. However, since the 1980s the absence of a view to development of the ports, which is instrumental to the development of the country, has limited its prospects for growth, relegating ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Zucchetti Roberto

The Macroeconomic Context: Strengths and Weaknesses

The decision of whether or not to invest significance public resources for the development of transport infrastructure has been, and is, at the center of public debate in Italy. On the one hand are the supporters of the absolute necessity of boosting public investment, especially in the sector of large-scale works, and on the other those who consider such choices useless or even harmful. So starting ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Castelli Gianluigi Vittorio, Gentile Maurizio, Pieri Valerio

Italy’s Growth Runs on Rails

Italy is the first case in the world – and the only one in Europe – of competition between high-speed rail operators. By international standards, our country’s regulatory structure and pricing are particularly advanced. In the next few years, numerous factors of change will affect the mobility and the evolution of the railway system: demographic and social, environmental, economic, and technological. ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Bettoni Francesco

All of the numbers of the Brebemi project

The A35 Brebemi was the first Italian highway to be built with project financing, i.e. through the exclusive use of private capital. In February 2019 an Agici study was presented on the economic, social, and environmental consequences of the new highway, which found positive repercussions for a territory encompassing 5 provinces, 114 municipalities, 640,000 inhabitants, and 250,000 workers, with a ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Signorini Paolo Emilio

The Ligurian Logistics Platform

Thanks to its geographic position in the heart of the Mediterranean, Italy represents a true "logistical platform" that offers multiple access points along its coast and in particular along the ports of the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas. However, it is necessary to rethink the role of ports, that must aim to acquire a different dimension that includes the entire maritime-port-logistics cluster, including ...