a mobility agency framework in emilia-romagna

Agenzia Trasporti Pubblici

Bologna, 17th December 2005 1Physics and the City

A Mobility Agency Framework in Emilia-Romagna

Presentation by Bruno GinocchiniEmilia-Romagna’s Public Transport Agency

Director



Summary

• The Territory, The Emergencies, The Local Authorities The Territory, The Emergencies, The Local Authorities Integrated StrategyIntegrated Strategy

• The Agencies as a governance instrument; the steps The Agencies as a governance instrument; the steps towards their creation:towards their creation:

– The National Public Transport ReformThe National Public Transport Reform– The New Challenges of Mobility Governance – A Survey on Other European Realities– Emilia-Romagna’s Regional Laws

• A Specific Competence

• A Joint Decision-Making Instrument

• A Regional Territorial Network Connected to the National and European Levels



• A wide territory, an institutional well developed network: the regional administration, 9 provinces, 10 major towns, several medium-sized cities, 341 municipalities, over 4 million inhabitants, a surface area of over 220,000 square kilometres

The Mobility Agencies SystemThe Mobility Agencies SystemThe TerritoryThe Territory



The TerritoryThe TerritoryAir Quality EmergencyAir Quality Emergency



The TerritoryThe TerritoryAir Quality EmergencyAir Quality Emergency

EU 35-day ceiling

Days in which the PM10 concentration limit has been exceeded50 g/cubic metre



The Emilia-Romagna Region and The Emilia-Romagna Region and Local AuthoritiesLocal Authorities

An Integrated StrategyAn Integrated Strategy

• Goals:Goals:– to respect the EU limitsto respect the EU limits– to implement the Kyoto objectivesto implement the Kyoto objectives

• Actions :Actions :– annual agreements to tackle emergency annual agreements to tackle emergency

situationssituations– multi-annual programme agreements to multi-annual programme agreements to

develop public transport and sustainable develop public transport and sustainable mobilitymobility

• What is needed: governance instrumentsWhat is needed: governance instruments



• 1997 – 2000: National Reform Laws

• The so-called Bassanini laws started two parallel processes: on one hand, the decentralization of competence and functions, including those referring to mobility and transport policies, on the other, public transport liberalization.

• The constitutional reform has emphasised the decentralization process.

The Creation of the Agencies The Creation of the Agencies The Public Transport ReformThe Public Transport Reform



• Decentralization

• All legislative competence allocated to regional administrations

• The State is responsible only for antitrust regulations

• Start of the public transport liberalization, which

• makes it mandatory for local authorities to link compensations for public service obligations to service contracts

• sets a limited period of time to call for tender

• makes it mandatory to separate property from service management, in order also to protect public ownership of infrastructures

The Creation of the Agencies The Creation of the Agencies The Public Transport ReformThe Public Transport Reform



• Transport infrastructure development is not enough

• Intellectuals’ and researchers’ awareness that a mobility governance framework is needed, especially for strongly urbanised areas, is shared with ordinary people’s feelings and governments commitments

• Production of action plans and programmes aimed at a sustainable mobility development, i.e.:

–EU Commission White Paper on TransportEU Commission White Paper on Transport, , –National General Transport Plan,–The Emilia-Romagna Regional Integrated Transport Plan (PRIT).

The Creation of the Agencies The Creation of the Agencies New Challenges for Mobility New Challenges for Mobility

GovernanceGovernance



• Before implementing the regional transport reform law, a survey was conducted; it covers different European realities:

• Scandinavia … … Gothenburg … … Vasttraffick • Scotland (UK) … Glasgow … … … SPTA & SPTE• France … … … …Valencienne … …SITURV• Italy … … … … Rome … … … …ATAC & STA

The Creation of the Agencies The Creation of the Agencies Survey on Other European Realities Survey on Other European Realities



• Regional laws have been approved and afterwards updated. They foresee:

• The creation of mobility and public transport agency in each Emilia-Romagna province,

• The creation of a regional agency.

The Creation of the Agencies The Creation of the Agencies Regional LawsRegional Laws



COMPANIES

USERS

LOCAL AUTHORITIES

MOBILITY AGENCIES

Local Mobility AgenciesLocal Mobility AgenciesA Specific CompetenceA Specific Competence

Political responsibility for strategies, policies and resources allocation

Competence for regulation and control, operational planning, sustainable mobility implementation Responsibility for service supply

Consumer rights safeguard



• completely belong to local authorities

• faithfully implement the will of the owners (i.e. local authorities)

• own public estates

• regulate the public transport sector

• are able to operate in business terms also in other mobility fields

• promote local sustainable mobility

Local Mobility AgenciesLocal Mobility AgenciesCharacteristics and Mission Characteristics and Mission

Local Mobility Agencies



Local Mobility AgenciesLocal Mobility AgenciesA Joint Decision-Making Instrument A Joint Decision-Making Instrument

• Local mobility agencies do not belong to one single local authority, but to different ones (province, province capital towns, some or all municipalities in that province)

• Each agency is competent for the whole provincial territory

• Each agency manages both urban and suburban public transport

• Many agencies start to better co-ordinate their services with the railway ones



A Governance ModelA Governance Modelfor the mobilityfor the mobility

REGION

RAILWAYCOMPANIES

SERVICE AND PROGRAM

CONTRACTS

INSTITUZIONALAGREEMENTS

PROGRAM AGREEMENTS

SERVICECONTRACTS

MUNICIPALITIES AND

PROVINCES

LOCAL AGENCIES

PUBLIC ANDPRIVATE

COMPANIES

(9 PROVINCIAL MOBILITY AREAS)

(ONE FOR EACH

PROVINCIAL AREA)

OWNERSHIP+

FUNCTIONSALLOCATION

COMPETENCE ALLOCATION

REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT AGENCY



A Governance ModelA Governance Modelthe actorsthe actors

•Region•Local authorities•Agencies•Industries

MAIN ACTORS

BUT ALSO

•Trade Unions•Users associations•Citizens associations•Researchers



Local Mobility AgenciesLocal Mobility AgenciesGovernance ModelGovernance Model

•The wrong tax income allocation:–the State receives the financial the State receives the financial resources which will be spent by the resources which will be spent by the regional administrationsregional administrations

–the regional administrations receive the regional administrations receive the resources which will be spent by the resources which will be spent by local authoritieslocal authorities

A FLAW TO BE DELETED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE



Governance Object Governance Object Collective Transport SectorsCollective Transport Sectors

Service Type Annual Service Amount

Italian Railway Company (Trenitalia) on State Railways

175 mln €

trains/km

Regional Railway Services35 mln €

trains/km

Urban/Suburban Transport onRoadways

1500 mln €

vehicles/km



Governance Object Governance Object Collective Transport Sectors Collective Transport Sectors

Sector Amount due

Bus-TrolleyPublic Transport €/year 100 mln

Railway Services €/year 200 mln



Governance ObjectGovernance ObjectInvestments forInvestments for

Urban Sustainable Mobility Urban Sustainable Mobility

The main investments areas1. post treatment of exhaust gases and shift to less polluting fuels

both in the bus fleet and in private vehicles2. bus fleet renewal by purchasing less polluting vehicles3. cycling mobility improvement and development4. strategic measures in favour of inter-modal transportation andurban mobility planning development5. infrastructural and technological investments to supportsustainable mobility related to productive, commercial andfreight transport activities6. traffic monitoring and controlling development of integratedelectronic telesystems7. passengers rolling stock improvement and renewal for regionalrailways



Governance ObjectGovernance ObjectInvestments forInvestments for

Urban Sustainable Mobility Urban Sustainable Mobility

YEARS PLANNED REGIONALINCENTIVES

2001-2006 € 220 mln



The Local Mobility AgencyThe Local Mobility AgencyNetworksNetworks

• a permanent forum for regional, local and urban sustainable mobility governance•it networks several dozens of members among which important regional administrations, some large municipalities, many provincial administrations

The National Association Federmobilità

The Regional Association ALMA

• the acronym stands for Local Mobility Agencies Associated• this network includes the nine regional local mobility agencies

(please refer to www.federmobilita.it)

(please refer to www.ruotepuliter.it, the website realised by the Regional Public Transport Agency which contains descriptions of the best urban sustainable mobility practices implemented in twelve cities in Emilia-Romagna)



In PerspectiveIn PerspectiveEuropean NetworksEuropean Networks

•an association of cities and regions

•goal: partnerships development

POLIS

CERM - CCRE

•it is regularly consulted by EU bodies

•goal: to put forward proposals to the EU Commission and Parliament for the development of a specific incentive framework to support urban sustainable mobility



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