De Micheli: "a new mobility model at the service of people"
First inauguration meeting this morning at MIT of the study commission charged with making proposals for the reform of local public transport, chaired by Professor Bernardo Giorgio Mattarella.
On the agenda, the organization of the commission and the subdivision into working groups: the financing methods, the information system for collecting data in real time, the analysis of the demand and the planning of services, the industrial sector, the assignment of services, the digitalization of services and mobility as a service, alternative power technologies, user protection, these are the thematic areas for each group.
“We need to redefine - said Minister De Micheli - the regulatory framework of the relationship between the State and the Regions of local public transport and above all the criteria for managing the service with respect to the new needs for people to move around. Also in consideration of the huge investments already promoted in the sector and the injection of important additional resources for investments for the efficiency of a system substantially stopped by the 1997 rules. I remember that we have already allocated 8 billion and a half to finance urban rapid transport projects of mass and for the renewal of the fleet and with the Recovery plan another 10 will be available for sustainable mobility and regional railways ".
Among the objectives of the reform, an updated regulatory framework in relation to the economic-financial aspects, also in view of the implementation of fiscal federalism. Furthermore, it will be necessary to develop intermodal integration models of the public transport offer at local and regional level in pursuit of the objective of mobility as a service, identifying every possible form of efficiency and rationalization also through the implementation of standard costs. Finally, it is necessary to define uniform criteria for the distribution of state contributions for the local public transport sector, with particular reference to the need to guarantee adequate levels of services throughout the national territory.
The next step for the commission composed of experts in the field and the institutional representatives of the public entities involved in the offer of public mobility will be the hearing, within the next month, of the companies providing the service, the trade unions, the users' association. and stakeholders.