Infraestructuras y liberalizaciones. Efectos territoriales, ambientales y socio-económicos sobre las prácticas de movilidad y los modelos urbanos. El caso de los ferrocarriles italianos.

The mobility practices are influenced by social and cultural conditioning, by policies for urban and transport planning and by the continued increase of the fuel costs. The analysis of changes in these practices is an important key to understand the process of transformation of times, places and forms of social life and the activity programs that contribute to structure the territory. Until now, several studies have addressed the issue of the economic effects associated with the liberalization of infrastructures but the issue of the territorial effects of the liberalization of the infrastructures has not yet been addressed in the organic sense. This document aims to disseminate some of the results of the interdisciplinary research titled “Territorial effects of the liberalization/privatization of infrastructure”, carried out at the DipSU - Department of Urban Studies, University Roma Tre, whose objective has been to define a strategic view on the advantages and disadvantages, desired and undesired, that the application of the EU directives on the liberalization of rail infrastructure has had and continue to have in Italy.