Eurac Research has mappato volumes of long traffic and infrastructures 16 transalpine corridors



The institute of search Eurac Research of Bolzano, in a study in order to support the arranged transport road-railroad, has mappato the traffic volumes and the present infrastructures along 16 transalpine corridors evidencing that 66% of the traffic of goods between Italy and Switzerland happen on track, while only 34% are transported on the road, and that along the aces between Italy and Austria these percentages overturn and the street transport ulteriorly grows (90%) between Italy and France.

The investigators have analyzed also present infrastructures, characterizing in the alpine area and perialpina the presence of about 100 intermodal terminals, that is centers where the goods is moved by the trucks to the trains or vice versa.

The specific study that the strategies that the States and the regions can adopt in order to support the integrated transport are several: some aim for an improvement of the service through the development of railway infrastructures or intermodal centers, others discourage the road traffic through limits, prohibition of circulations and tolls. "Restrictions and prohibition - it has specified Federico Cavallaro di Eurac Research - obtain an immediate effect on the reduction of the traffic on rubber, but their effectiveness must be estimated taking into consideration the total situation. The increase of the street tolls in a Country, for example, can play to advantage of the transport on track, but it could also cause undesired effects: in order to spend less, the conveyors could choose new more economic distances increasing to the volumes and therefore the long traffic other guiding ones".

According to the researchers, the strategies of greater success are based rather on the combination than restrictive measures and incentives to the arranged transport and must be harmonized to international level. "The toll of I tunnel of Monte Bianco, for example - Cavallaro has explained - has high costs. This is justified by the expenses of maintenance of the tunnel, but it does so as that the traffic heads towards other guiding ones".

The specific mapping and technical studies on volumes of traffic, realized policies of transport and solutions INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY from Eurac Research will serve as a basis in order to realize some actions pilot in the corridors Bettembourg-Trieste, Fürnitz-Trieste and Rostock-Verona, with fallen back also on the territory resident of Upper Adige.