ITS in Italy - TTS Italia

ITS for Logistics and Freight Transport Management
In Italy, goods are mainly transported by road. The challenges that Italy has to face in the freight
transport sector is twofold. From one side, there is the operators need to increase the efficiency and
productivity of the whole logistics field, from the other, there is the need to encourage the modal
balance. In addition, it is necessary to accompany the liberalisation and decentralisation of systems
and services, by maintaining a unitary and integrated management of the trip among all the various
involved actors.
Italy has been the first European Country to think
and realise intermodal platforms as an
infrastructure network dedicated to intermodal
transport and the Italian logistic platform
represents at European level an original way to
rationalise the use of different transport modes.
ITS can play a key role to promote systems
integration, bringing benefits to the
competitiveness of the economic system as a
whole. By intervening in the management of the
various transport steps, it is possible to optimise all
the logistic process, from the starting point to that of goods delivery, through the use of different
transport modes, so reducing costs.
Italy is then at the forefront as regards the
development and the deployment of innovative
ITS solutions for fleet management both for long
haulage and urban freight transport, with the aim
of enhancing intermodal freight transport, that are
now extensively diffused, bringing benefits in
terms of overall quality of the transport services
and cost savings.
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TTS Italia Handbook 2008