LA POTENZIALITA' DEL TERRITORIO NELLA INTEGRAZIONE DEI SISTEMI DI TRASPORTO

THE REGION'S POTENTIAL IN THE INTEGRATION OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS The transport system has always been the hinge of all processes of development of a modern industrialized economy. However, in our country, for several reasons, in recent decades the mobility offer has not met expectations, causing substantial critical , that only recently have called for a new infrastructure policy. The provision of mobility should recover a significant gap in both quantitative and qualitative aspects. The problems to be solved are many and made more complex by the necessity to recover a significant delay, this threatens to marginalize us from a geographic European context in which Italy is a peripheral country. Many recent studies have highlighted how the failure of the road system are estimated approximately annually 15 million euros , that impact directly on productive component of the nation, even if measured only in terms of greater travel times due to congestion of the main extra urban network. An action of territorial balance must necessarily be directed towards the solution of those nodes of traffic which doesn’t allow a real operating system of main road network. However, as a strategy dictated by the emergency can be basically forced, this may not stem entirely or put into the background those actions necessary to ensure a balance of supply, both in terms of modal and development policy. This policy could penalize further, from the point of view of infrastructures, the already marginalized economies such as South of Italy. In this respect there is no doubt that a fundamental role in the reorganization of domestic and international mobility, can be played by an effective integration of maritime transport in the framework of an offer of transport projected to other Mediterranean countries. There is nothing new to acknowledge Southern Italy as a bridge to those markets that can solve the problem of its geographical marginalization, otherwise unavoidable. In the General Transport Plan (TMP) fired in 2001, argued that “…….a particular role is played by trade with Mediterranean countries, that represent over 30% of imports and exports flow expressed in quantities”. Despite the traffic of goods in international trade and passengers traveling to or from foreign countries still represents a relatively modest section compared to the traffic with domestic origin and destination, the particular geographical position of Italy, the fact of being an economy particularly oriented to transformation and tourism vocation suggest that this section will grow significantly in future.” However, as this intuition is obvious, it is not sufficient alone to guarantee tangible results if not supported by adequate infrastructure policies. On this regard, the PGT is not really a decision or a guarantee of spending, but represents only the technical and political definition of guidelines and of possible areas for future public and private investment in terms of mobility. Therefore, some methodological considerations must be done about the possible guidelines for a strategy which aims to integrate the port system of Southern Italy in the context of a systematic program of transport.