THE RER CONTRIBUTION TO THE PLUME FINAL CONFERENCE
EMILIA-ROMAGNA, THE REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE by Silvia Zamboni
Emilia Romagna is an industrial and advanced agricultural region situated in northern Italy. Total population is about 4 millions inhabitants on a surface of 22,124 sq kilometers. 40% of the total population lives in the ten main cities, which represent only 12% of the total surface.
Regione Emilia Romagna has adopted a law and planning system to manage the regional land use. The first regional land use planning law (Legge urbanistica) – L.R. n. 47 - was approved in 1978. The most recent updated version of this law – L.R. 29/2000 - was approved in the year 2000. Regional planning
tools The regional land safeguard plan (PTPR – Piano territoriale regionale) defines the specific safeguard goals in relationship, for instance, to geological sensitive areas, rivers, woods, historical and archaeological sites; it also sets binding rules for land and environmental protection. Finally, the
regional integrated transport plan (PRIT 2000-2010 – Piano
Regionale Integrato Trasporti) approved in 2000 sets the integrated
transport system goals and the tools, actions and instruments, to
reach them.
The coordination
between the regional and the provincial levels is provided by: EMILIA ROMAGNA TRANSPORT SYSTEM PROFILE Emilia Romagna, like all other italian regions, is responsible, by national law, for defining the regional integrated transport plan (PRIT) and the regional and local intermodal transport services development guidelines. PRIT sets priorities in railway and road investments, and guidelines for their implementation. While PRIT is updated every ten years, the “programme agreements” have to be negotiated between Regione and local authorities every three years.
- diversify
modes of transport, promote railways including creation of the regional
railway system;
- Light blue stands for popultion increase (1991-2010); - Red stands for employed people increase.
EMILIA ROMAGNA INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS  The grafic shows the different industrial districts according to the sites (settlements) density and the specific productive activities.
On the basis of the inhabited sites forecasts and the industrial districts locations programme, scenarios have been developed. The economic and industrial analysis’ output is an innovative, intensive, competitive scenario; inhabited areas (residential settlements) will develop along a network cluster model, whereas the infrastructures along a network scenario. Different options have been compared considering traffic congestion reduction; costs; environmental impact.
Inhabited sites scenario: network cluster model Transport infrastrucutres:
network web
The idea is to improve connections between industrialized districts and heavily populated areas, while preserving green spaces, the main of which are Appennini mountains and the Po valley planes. Therefore transport system concentrates on a limited number of corridors, with a main road and railways along the very same axes. Intermodal networks and transport services derive from the platform model.
PLATFORM REGION: INTERMODAL CORRIDORS AND LOGISTIC INTEGRATION The Emilia Romagna
platform model is characterized by: 2010 ROAD NETWORK FORECAST The slide shows, - in red the three North-South corridors (Mantova-La Spezia; Padova-Bologna-Firenze–Roma; Venezia-Ravenna-Roma); - in orange the two new connections (called Cispadana and Pedemontana) to overcome the East-West problem, in addition to the existing A1 highway and Emilia State road.  2010 RAILWAY NETWORK FORCAST The slide visualized: - the new high speed/high capacity railway connecting Milano-Piacenza-Bologna-Firenze; - the Cispadana railway connecting Parma-Ferrara-Ravenna; - the costal open air rail Ravenna Rimini connection 
INTERMODAL POLES The
corridors’ intermodal function is provided by a limited number
of highly qualified intermodal centres partly already existing (such
as Ravenna harbour, Bologna and Parma’s Interporti), others
which are being developed (in Piacenza and Dinazzano), others being
constructed (in Forlimpopli and Cittanova). 1998 2010 Prit’s
scenario:
PRIT’S
implementation scenario in 2010 means three times more passengers
by railways.
FREIGHT MOBILITY By PRIT implementation we reach more than 100% increase in railway freight transportation. BOLOGNA PROVINCIAL TERRITORIAL CO-ORDINATION PLAN – PTCP On 30th March
2004 the Bologna provincial territorial coordination plan has been
approved by the Bologna Provincial Council. It determines the inhabited,
commercial and productive sites development along the existing transport
infrastructures and services. This choice is coherent with the development
of the metropolitan railway network service (SFM) contained in PRIT. For more information and images see http://www.planum.net/ptcpbologna
The
Emilia Romagna web site www.ruotepuliter.it (clean wheels/rails)
contains information on urban sustainable mobility best practices
implemented in twelve Emilia Romagna cities. They include descriptions
of (generally bottom-up) planning, actors (citizens, local authorities,
pupils, teachers, parents) and outputs (road accidents and traffic
congestion decrease, vehicle traffic replacement supported by the
local community, urban environment improvement, positive promotion
of bike urban use, children’s greater willingness to go to
school by bike). The range of the experiences varies from safe home-school
routes by walking and bikes (the so-called bikebus) in order to
promote also children’s autonomous mobility, to car sharing,
to companies mobility management for home-work routes, to the “electronic
policeman” to control limited traffic areas, to car pooling,
to night and call-up extraurban buses services, to electric vehicles
fleets purchased by municipal administrations.
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