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Magazine article (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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Ferraris Luigi

Electric transition between the present and the future

In the last 20 years, Italy has gone from an electricity system is based on large production plants, to a structure with rapid growth of renewable sources, in particular wind and solar, and a gradual drop in thermoelectric capacity. In this context, Terna has identified some lines of action, including strengthening its commitment on the network and on interconnections abroad to increase the infrastructure ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Amatori Franco

The Long Autumn in Italy’s History

In the 1970s, Italy lived through an unprecedented cycle of labor conflict, that started with the Fiat strike in September 1969, and ended with the “March of 40,000” in Turin in October 1980.#The dynamics of industrial relations in Italy had previously seen moments of particularly strong conflict which had been followed by a retreat of the unions: the occupation of the Red Biennial (1919-1920), ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Abba Laura

The Internet Needs Good Governance

Autumn 1969 in California saw the birth of the ARPANET, which enabled the transmission of data from one computer to another and laid the basis for the creation of a Network on a global scale in the following decades.#Today 4.39 billion people use the Network, 57 percent of the world’s population. One of the crucial questions is that of Internet Governance, which must be managed through a multi-stakeholder ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Sommariva Andrea

A Synergy of Public and Private in Space Exploration

The first phase in the history of human exploration of space, in the 1950s and ’60s, saw a pre-eminent role of government: public investment in the military field and the missions to the moon set off processes of technological innovation with very positive spinoffs for the economies as a whole, as in the case of the development of satellite technologies,#Since the 1970s, more and more private corporations ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Bergantino Angela Stefania

A Matter of Concessions

The highway sector represents an important component of the Italian economy, both in terms of extension of the network - one of the largest in Europe - and as regards the presence of companies that have taken on an important role in other sectors of the economy and abroad. In this regard, the regulatory and public concessions sector has evolved over time in relation to both the country's social and ...

Magazine article (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 ...

Magazine article (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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Magri Papolo, Belladonna Alberto

On the Global Chessboard, the Game is On

For over a decade now, the hub of global production has shifted to the East. The macro-region of India, China, and Southeast Asia now generates 34 percent of global GDP and participates in over 20 percent of global trade, most of which takes place through maritime connections. This growth is also favored by the attention to infrastructure: Asia is in fact the region that invests the most in infrastructure, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Andrea Giuntini

A Historical Perspective for the Present

Between resounding failures and unexpected successes, during the last century and a half the Italian infrastructure system has represented the modern backbone of the country. The construction of infrastructure networks has, however, lacked an overall vision and unity of intent and organic character, such that the networks were developed outside of any planning logic and were formed mostly independent ...