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Strategic Plans and Mobility Plans: strengthening competitiveness and cohesion- IT

Introduction

The overall objective of the Strategic Plans and Mobility Plans Programme is to break through the current stalemate of infrastructural interventions on the “Mezzogiorno” territories to improve institutional processes and realise more effective regulatory frameworks for urban planning and investment programming development.

Description

The Strategic Plans and Mobility Plans Programme is composed of two different sub-programmes: Strategic Plans and Mobility Plans. The Strategic Plans and Mobility Plans Programme finances, or co-finances, local interventions in territories which have been considered strategic to the national economic competitiveness. The involved cities are selected on the basis of two criteria related to the European Strategic Guidelines 2007-2013:

their secondary position with reference to the main European infrastructural networks to enable all the potential regions to benefit from the opportunities created by the implementation of trans-European infrastructure networks
their vicinity to medium-sized towns which have been recognised as centres of excellence for their own territories characterised by vivacity and innovation.

Despite the Strategic Plans, the Programme is not a common tool codified in competence or procedures. It is rather considered as an ‘agenda’ for the start-up of an innovative process and governance development through:

the shared process based on the classification of strategic projects and the breakdown of competencies
the conformity to the territory features without administrative or geographic boundaries
the orientation to tangible results preventing conflicts among different programming tools and actors’ competences
a flexible evaluation focusing on the consideration of endogenous and external factors allowing the review of the Srategic Plan itself.

In line with the Strategic Plans, the Mobility Plans Programme is another tool through which local authorities and other actors involved can make the mobilisation process easier, facilitating the access to locations, modalities, beneficiaries etc. This instrument combines material and immaterial interventions for the logistic governance of trade and people flows.

EU involvement

With reference to the European orientations for urban development, the Strategic Plans and Mobility Plans Programme focuses on cities as main nodes of the European Transport Network. The Programme gives all medium-sized towns a basic role in promoting European competitiveness and cohesion. In particular, it pays attention to their ability to build networks and to be the centre of potential development of a territory.

Contact info

Ministry for Infrastructure
Ms. Daniela Versino

Publication date

//2004

Article info
Author: Ministry for Infrastructure
Organisation: Ministry for Infrastructure

Links

Ministry for Infrastructure (in Italian)

Document type

policy

Themes

Urban Policy > Transport and infrastructure > Roads and road transport

Keywords

Traffic management