De Micheli’s myopia on Tpl for students
There is no national collective organization on the Tpl dedicated to students, as it should be in this serious moment. Marco Foti's speech
We return to talk about Tpl dedicated to students , school transport not to be confused with the school bus, a very different thickness protected by the Municipalities. The theme is always the same: timetable plan (organization in my experience mammoth due to the huge number of stakeholders involved), lack of supply (means), social distancing, safety.
Once again the MIT myopia produces insecurities in local authorities and in the Regions. In the various technical meetings, everyone has their say, proposing actions aimed at their own territory.
There is no national collective organization, as it should be in this serious moment. Even more than before I believe that the planning tool, with the same economic, organizational and instrumental resources, is the winning weapon to satisfy the enormous demands and needs of citizens.
Even today, completely empty vehicles circulate during the day, covering empty kilometers with exorbitant costs for the community.
This is the lever on which to act. Now there are tools to facilitate the planning and programming of services: Fcd data, passenger counts, simulation models, etc.
It takes courage, courage on the part of a MIT who must take the situation in hand and dictate the rules of the game. Otherwise you risk default.
Anav, Asstra and Agens, in a joint note today, are asking for an additional 500 million euros for the year in the beginning of 2021. We are investing public money (almost two billion considering the entire commitment in the various Decrees) to cover inefficiencies deriving from the machine central state.
The solutions are there: to make the services more efficient based on the real needs of the territory and of the citizens, allocating public transport services to the different categories of users, thus covering acclaimed time slots.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/la-miopia-del-mit-sul-tpl-per-gli-studenti/ on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 07:23:03 +0000.