Description
Objective of the measure:
- doubling high-speed rail traffic by 2030, tripling it by 2050
- achieve the sustainable development goals identified in the UN's 2030 Agenda.
The transport sector is among those most responsible for climate-changing emissions, contributing 23.3% of total greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, 90% of passenger traffic in Italy is by road, while only 6% of passengers travel by rail (compared to 7.9% in Europe).
The lack of an efficient infrastructure system also affects freight transport with consequent congestion and safety problems along motorways.
Further nodes to be tackled concern the strengthening of infrastructure and digital services in ports and airports and more generally the competitiveness of the logistics system. Also weighing on this are the bottlenecks that prevent a rapid connection of national railway lines with port infrastructure: inadequate tracks, excessive distance of the tracks from the quays and high costs of handling operations in ports mean that port intermodality and last-mile connections, especially rail, must be developed.
The mission is divided into two components.
The interventions contained in the first component - Investments on the railway network - are aimed at the development of the Italian railway system: through the completion of the main high-speed and high-capacity railway axes, the integration between these and the regional railway network and the securing of the entire railway network.
The second component - Intermodality and integrated logistics - includes measures to support the modernisation and digitalisation of the logistics system. The digitisation of the logistics chain is one of the most significant goals achieved within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) under the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT).
With the achievement, within the sixth PNRR instalment, of the target related to the M3C2 - 2.1 investment, financed with an endowment of 250 million euro, the MIT has initiated and boosted a profound transformation of the logistics sector, focusing on the dematerialisation of processes, which are increasingly automated and interconnected, creating a digital infrastructure that optimises logistics flows, reduces waiting times, and increases security.