What happened to the Transportation Plans for students?
Almost all the Regions have postponed the return to school of students who attend high school because there are no transport plans. Here are some questions for the Ministry of Transport… Marco Foti's speech
What happened to the transport plans provided to satisfy the movements of students when the lessons resume in the presence?
The Transport Plans, provided for the return to school of high school students, are comparable to the Italian Anticovid Plan: everyone talks about it and no one shows it.
The proof is the postponement of almost all the Regions, and certainly not their fault, of the resumption of lessons in the presence for high school students originally scheduled for next 11 January.
If we take the case of the capital for example, we learn that Atac in Rome proposes an increase in daily trips while keeping the bus capacity at 50%. But we also learn that the Roman company has temporarily (six months?) Entrusted the management of some public transport lines and connections dedicated to the school service to private individuals. Going into detail, however, it is noted that when fully operational, the additional daily journeys also consider those originating from the subcontracting of last December.
There is a lot of confusion, no doubt about it. Roman citizens, and not only, are wondering how they should behave starting from the day of resumption of school activities in the presence, and certainly not from Monday 11 January, with the exception of a few regions.
The case of the Transport Plan developed in Rome is an example of the "synthesis" widespread in the various Italian cities:
• student admission distributed over two time slots, 8.00 – 10.00;
• 50 'lesson timetable, essentially a 5-day program spread over 6;
• significant commitment of national, regional and local government resources.
Nothing else. Will it be the shared approach on the Italian territory? Maybe. So the questions that students' parents ask themselves are many and let's try to list them:
• first of all, what are the economic resources made available for additional services and how much have the various Regions spent?
• To which kilometer fee the additional services provided by private companies have been assigned;
• How many more vehicles are foreseen for the restart considering the additional rides that the companies will make available?
• How will the Transport Plan work, if it really exists or is it limited to being a document (slide) of general lines, taking into consideration the load factor of the vehicles reduced to 50%?
• What will be the strategic nodes of the network taking into account the complex articulation in the cities?
• How will real-time monitoring of satisfied demand and online supply take place? With what tools?
• What countermeasures have been adopted in the event of over-user of the vehicles, also in light of the continuous complaints of users who use the various TPL services?
These are some of the questions that citizens ask themselves and that we turn to the Minister of Transport.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/che-fine-hanno-fatto-i-piani-di-trasporto-per-gli-studenti/ on Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:21:30 +0000.