Situation Analysis infrastructures in Italy

"Infrastructure's time to change step," was the title of the conference proposed by Unioncamere and Cape Horn, which took place in recent weeks in Rome. During the meeting, was presented the 1st report on the state of infrastructure in our country.

Italy in its 40-year history has had access to almost 4 thousand km of motorways, coming immediately after Germany who had more than 6 thousand. Today our country has 6,600 km of highways, while Germany has nearly 13 thousand.

Our relationship plummet regard to rail transport, of 16 thousand km of track operated by the Italian railway network, only a thousand are at high speed. In addition, the South to this day marks a negative point against him, his endowment date is still largely monorail.

The ports collect a negative record, which is difficult to deal with because despite the 800 berths, the situation is paradoxical for its poor intermodal connections, is non-existent synergy with other structures, bound by the proximity of urban centers with a strong impossibility to actually grow and get in the running for the competition. The ports Italian "forgive" the challenge with the ports of the North. To date, only 3 of the 18 strategic projects contained in the "Objective Law" have been implemented, the infrastructure spending appears to be on the decline.

The 'costs of inaction - has so stated by the President of Unioncamere, Ferruccio Dardanello - undermine the ability of our businesses to recover the ground lost in recent years of economic crisis and jeopardize the future development of our territories. After growth of 25% of public investment in infrastructure in Italy between 1997 and 2004, we experienced a negative trend, which is still in place, which reported the amount of investments in absolute terms to the levels of the mid-90s. Yet the combination of infrastructure development is the only one on which we can play some challenge to Europe and to open ourselves to the foreign market. "

The Italian road network has a length of 183,705 kilometers, of which 4% are highways, 11% other roads of national interest (National Roads) and 86% regional and provincial roads. While the North West, North East and Centro are a subdivision of the road network in different classes rather organic to each other, in the South there are entire regions, such as Sardinia, Basilicata and Molise, where highways are completely absent or marginal.

Rail transport beyond its 16 thousand km situation offers a homogeneous and of low quality. Complex situation even in Italian ports, which are the least competitive with other major European ports.

By now you feel the need to be present with the appropriate infrastructure and competitive to boost the economy in our country, because the future in Italy is closely linked to the strengthening of public services, to support the connection that goes from the mountains to the valleys, from the valleys the sea and so on to ensure those connections and those interchanges that would promote commercial development appropriate to our country.

26/04/2011

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Italian version of ReteArchitetti.it

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