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Covid, Conte and Speranza sign the Dpcm with the new measures
The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Paola De Micheli, convened for Wednesday, October 14, the representative associations of local public transport companies, the representatives of the Conference of the Regions, Anci and Upi for a debate on measures to contain infections in public transport, under pressure precisely because of from school. During the meeting, an update will be carried out on the periodic monitoring of the flows of passengers using public transport and some problematic situations reported in recent days on social channels will be analyzed, related to gatherings on board vehicles and within stations. . However, any tweak from 80 to 50 percent of the maximum capacity of the vehicles must be accompanied by a reduction in user pressure.
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If the value of the currently permitted public transport filling coefficient (80%) were to be further reduced “it would be difficult for local public transport operators to continue reconciling compliance with anti-Covid-19 protocols and at the same time guarantee the right to mobility for several hundred thousand users every day, with the consequent risk of overcrowding at stops and stations ”, reads an evaluation carried out by Asstra Research Office, the association that groups together local public transport companies. reductions, greater than 80%, only in the morning rush hour “would run the risk of not being able to satisfy from more than 91 thousand (maximum capacity allowed in hypothesis at 75%) to about 550 thousand daily trips (scenario at 50% ), causing a significant daily disturbance to users. Specifically, assuming a 50% reduction in maximum capacity, approximately 275,000 people a day would be prevented from benefiting from the transport service for both study and work reasons ”.
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The study also focuses on the consequences that a reduction in public transport capacity would have on mobility. According to Asstra, more than 42,000 to more than 250,000 car trips could be generated every day during morning rush hours alone. Therefore, the negative repercussions in terms of polluting emissions, especially in large urban centers, and emissions that alter the climate would be inevitable, without considering the effects on road congestion derived from increased use of land and on accidents. Compared to a bus, the car emits higher CO emissions per passenger * km by a value of + 1,741%, as well as + 57.1% of PM10 and + 42.1% of PM2.5. Regarding CO2, in Italy a car emits in the city on average more than 3 times more carbon dioxide compared to a bus, with a value equal to + 213.6%.
