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A Mobility Agency Framework in Emilia-Romagna

A Mobility Agency Framework in Emilia-Romagna. Presentation by Bruno Ginocchini Emilia-Romagna’s Public Transport Agency Director. Summary. The Territory, The Emergencies, The Local Authorities Integrated Strategy The Agencies as a governance instrument; the steps towards their creation:

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A Mobility Agency Framework in Emilia-Romagna

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  1. A Mobility Agency Framework in Emilia-Romagna Presentation by Bruno Ginocchini Emilia-Romagna’s Public Transport Agency Director

  2. Summary • The Territory, The Emergencies, The Local Authorities Integrated Strategy • The Agencies as a governance instrument; the steps towards their creation: • The National Public Transport Reform • The New Challenges ofMobility Governance • A Survey on Other European Realities • Emilia-Romagna’s Regional Laws • A Specific Competence • A Joint Decision-Making Instrument • A Regional Territorial Network Connected to the National and European Levels

  3. The Mobility Agencies System The Territory • A wide territory, an institutional well developed network:the regional administration, 9 provinces, 10 major towns, several medium-sized cities, 341 municipalities, over 4 million inhabitants, a surface area of over 220,000 square kilometres

  4. The TerritoryAir Quality Emergency

  5. The TerritoryAir Quality Emergency Days in which the PM10 concentration limit has been exceeded 50 g/cubic metre EU 35-day ceiling

  6. The Emilia-Romagna Region and Local AuthoritiesAn Integrated Strategy • Goals: • to respect the EU limits • to implement the Kyoto objectives • Actions : • annual agreements to tackle emergency situations • multi-annual programme agreements to develop public transport and sustainable mobility • What is needed: governance instruments

  7. The Creation of the Agencies The Public Transport Reform • 1997 – 2000: National Reform Laws • The so-called Bassanini laws started two parallel processes: on one hand, the decentralization of competence and functions, including those referring to mobility and transport policies, on the other, public transport liberalization. • The constitutional reform has emphasised the decentralization process.

  8. The Creation of the Agencies The Public Transport Reform • Decentralization • All legislative competence allocated to regional administrations • The State is responsible only for antitrust regulations • Start of the public transport liberalization, which • makes it mandatory for local authorities to link compensations for public service obligations to service contracts • sets a limited period of time to call for tender • makes it mandatory to separate property from service management, in order also to protect public ownership of infrastructures

  9. The Creation of the Agencies New Challenges for Mobility Governance • Transport infrastructure development is not enough • Intellectuals’ and researchers’ awareness that a mobility governance framework is needed, especially for strongly urbanised areas, is shared with ordinary people’s feelings and governments commitments • Production of action plans and programmes aimed at a sustainable mobility development, i.e.: • EU Commission White Paper on Transport, • National General Transport Plan, • The Emilia-Romagna Regional Integrated Transport Plan (PRIT).

  10. The Creation of the Agencies Survey on Other European Realities • Before implementing the regional transport reform law, a survey was conducted; it covers different European realities: • Scandinavia … … Gothenburg … … Vasttraffick • Scotland (UK) … Glasgow … … … SPTA & SPTE • France … … … …Valencienne … …SITURV • Italy … … … … Rome … … … …ATAC & STA

  11. The Creation of the Agencies Regional Laws • Regional laws have been approved and afterwards updated. They foresee: • The creation of mobility and public transport agency in each Emilia-Romagna province, • The creation of a regional agency.

  12. LOCAL AUTHORITIES MOBILITY AGENCIES COMPANIES USERS Local Mobility Agencies A Specific Competence Political responsibility for strategies, policies and resources allocation Competence for regulation and control, operational planning, sustainable mobility implementation Responsibility for service supply Consumer rights safeguard

  13. Local Mobility Agencies Characteristics and Mission Local Mobility Agencies • completely belong to local authorities • faithfully implement the will of the owners (i.e. local authorities) • own public estates • regulate the public transport sector • are able to operate in business terms also in other mobility fields • promote local sustainable mobility

  14. Local Mobility Agencies A Joint Decision-Making Instrument • Local mobility agencies do not belong to one single local authority, but to different ones (province, province capital towns, some or all municipalities in that province) • Each agency is competent for the whole provincial territory • Each agency manages both urban and suburban public transport • Many agencies start to better co-ordinate their services with the railway ones

  15. A Governance Model for the mobility REGION INSTITUZIONAL AGREEMENTS MUNICIPALITIES AND PROVINCES (9 PROVINCIAL MOBILITY AREAS) OWNERSHIP + FUNCTIONS ALLOCATION COMPETENCE ALLOCATION PROGRAM AGREEMENTS LOCAL AGENCIES REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT AGENCY (ONE FOR EACH PROVINCIAL AREA) SERVICE AND PROGRAM CONTRACTS SERVICE CONTRACTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMPANIES RAILWAY COMPANIES

  16. A Governance Modelthe actors MAIN ACTORS • Region • Local authorities • Agencies • Industries BUT ALSO • Trade Unions • Users associations • Citizens associations • Researchers

  17. Local Mobility Agencies Governance Model A FLAW TO BE DELETED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE • The wrong tax income allocation: • the State receives the financial resources which will be spent by the regional administrations • the regional administrations receive the resources which will be spent by local authorities

  18. Governance Object Collective Transport Sectors

  19. Governance Object Collective Transport Sectors

  20. Governance ObjectInvestments for Urban Sustainable Mobility

  21. Governance ObjectInvestments for Urban Sustainable Mobility

  22. The Local Mobility AgencyNetworks The Regional Association ALMA • the acronym stands for Local Mobility Agencies Associated • this network includes the nine regional local mobility agencies (please refer to www.ruotepuliter.it, the website realised by the Regional Public Transport Agency which contains descriptions of the best urban sustainable mobility practices implemented in twelve cities in Emilia-Romagna) The National Association Federmobilità • a permanent forum for regional, local and urban sustainable mobility governance • it networks several dozens of members among which important regional administrations,some large municipalities, many provincial administrations (please refer to www.federmobilita.it)

  23. In PerspectiveEuropean Networks POLIS • an association of cities and regions • goal: partnerships development CERM - CCRE • it is regularly consulted by EU bodies • goal: to put forward proposals to the EU Commission and Parliament for the development of a specific incentive framework to support urban sustainable mobility

  24. Thank you for your attention! tpl@regione.emilia-romagna.it

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