Traffic report of trucks on the highway in 2017
The company ANAS, the company that manages the road and motorway network, announces that in 2017 the Detected Mobility Index for what concerns the traffic of heavy vehicles registered + 1% compared to the previous year compared to + 4% in the 2016 and 2015 data report.
The data is also subdivided into the macro areas and the two major islands: in the North -1.6%, in the Center + 2.2%, in the South + 2.3%, in Sicily + 1.6% and in Sardinia -4.4%.
The data are quite significant that still in the North the rail transport competition is still strong compared to the rest of the country; even the Italian Railway Network, a company that belongs to the Ferrovie dello Stato Group, has signed an important agreement with the regions of Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria for the development of rail freight transport, which should reach 30% by 2030 for journeys over 300 kilometers, and 50% in 2050, drastically reducing the number of trucks on the roads.
In the South, on the other hand, rail freight traffic is practically non-existent due to a chronic lack of investment by the public administration for the improvement of the railway network. One might therefore think that in the South there is a vast and capillary motorway network; but no, because here too the gap between North and South is very strong, bearing in mind that in the South to make 100 km you can get to spend three times the time compared to what would be used in the north.
As we said in Sardinia the report of heavy vehicles in 2017 recorded a minus 4.4% compared to 2016, but not for the benefit of the freight train, which marks in this region its final disappearance, but of the sea, since the goods traffic on ships is much larger (649.9 tons per inhabitant).
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