Description
In accordance with the fundamental principles of the PUP of sustainability, responsible subsidiarity, integration and competitiveness, and with a view to flexibility, the variant integrates the articulation of mobility networks given by the current plan, overcoming the rigid distinction between internal and access corridors, in order to broaden the scope of the forecasts and facilitate their implementation. Through the identification of 'connection areas', an intermediate level is defined, endowed with cartographic and regulatory consistency, capable of encompassing the scope and instruments of the existing corridors. The peculiarities and connection needs of territories constitute the reference for the cartographic determination of homogeneous areas representing specific spatial objectives. Socio-economic and environmental characteristics together with mobility policies and programmes make up the prevailing aspects. Consistently with the European cohesion policies, the areas are given the appropriate scale for the definition of the urban framework useful for a complete transport planning, while at the same time creating the context so that the fulfilment criteria for the enabling condition - as defined by the Regulation 1060/2021 for the access to the funding from the OP ERDF, the Development and Cohesion Fund and the ESF Plus - can be pursued through the drafting of a provincial mobility plan by sections or the presentation of a general project hypothesis. In both cases, the objective of the frameworks is the prefiguration of multi-modal infrastructures that maximise the response to connectivity needs in a network logic, where each planned intervention must positively contribute to meet the connection needs as a whole.
The result is a regulatory amendment that identifies a new instrument for mobility networks and defines the methodology for its implementation. The amendment does not produce effects per se and does not determine forecasts until the approval of the variant to the PUP that activates the specific area. This variant activates the East Corridor connection area as a priority and prototype, and defines its objectives, in order to solve the issue of the connection with the Veneto region, the traffic volumes affecting the Valsugana and the connection needs expressed by the territories included in it. Consistency with the assumed objectives is the parameter against which the response to the connectivity needs of the area is to be measured: the objectives are to be pursued as a whole and in a unified manner; the disjointed application of the same represents, in fact, a contrast with the defined method. The variant introduces the definition of a method for the construction of the relationship between the issues to be considered in the definition of shared strategies and actions. The operational translation of the method is represented by the criteria for evaluating the alternatives that allow the prediction of the scenario that admits the intermodal infrastructural solution that maximises the response to the connectivity needs in respect of what has been defined for the environmental, technical and economic components. The variant to the PUP introduces a participatory phase that is made mandatory by law in order to make possible the implementation development of the PUP objectives and the start of subordinate planning. The method underlying the area of connection provides the structure through which to conduct the participation phase, which aims to bring out and identify the needs and expectations of the territories, and to translate them into guidelines for subordinate planning through the shared definition of variables and weightings.