TTS Italia Handbook 2006

ITS in Italy
Italy is one of the European Countries characterised by the highest traffic levels with 947.205 million
passengers /Km per year. 92,40% of them chooses road transport. Goods transport to more than 50
Km distance amounts to 211.206 million tons per year and 65,33% is conveyed by road [Source:
Conto Nazionale delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti, data updating 2004].
Forecasts show that transport
demand will increase in the next
years and the risk is that transport
costs will become unsustainable.
The National Plan for Transport and
Logistics - PGTL, officially issued in
2001, by the Italian Ministry of
Infrastructure and Transport, has
singled out a series of strategic
measures to fit the National
Transport System to the new trends
in travel and transport, in a time
horizon up to 2010.
The aim is ensuring to citizens and goods the possibility to travel safely, efficiently and compliantly
with environment by using all transport modes. All this cannot be reached simply by building new
infrastructures, but by considering transport as an “integrated system”, where information,
management and control work in synergy, so optimising the use of infrastructure and logistic
platforms.
ITS play a leading role in such a strategic approach. They are the key tool to integrate mobility
systems and services and to develop new solutions for a better efficiency, productivity and especially
safety of transport system.
Trials performed until now in Italy show that ITS are a priority for our economy and competitiveness.
They make our cities more liveable and they help us to protect our artistic heritage from pollution.
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