planning

Drafting of the new Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and updating of the General Urban Traffic Plan for the city of Udine After a tender process, TRTIngegneria, in partnership with ISFORT Istituto Superiore di Formazione e Ricerca per i Trasporti, Ambiente Italia and GVG Engineering, was selected by the Municipality of Udine to draft the city’s first Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) and update its General Urban Traffic Plan (PGTU). With regard to the PUMS, the working group’s activities are structured according to the following methodological steps, in line with the 2019 guidelines of the Ministry of Transport and the new Regulation (EU) 2024/1679 (the city of Udine is a TEN-T urban node): All phases are accompanied by a broad and structured communication and participation campaign, which involves citizens and stakeholders through public meetings, technical round tables, focus groups and online questionnaires. The PGTU is developed on the basis of the objectives and measures defined in the short-term scenario of the PUMS, detailing the characteristics and feasibility of the individual actions. During the drafting of the PGTU, a series of urban traffic nodes are subject to detailed assessment through the application of a micro-dynamic simulation model (VISSIM) integrated with the multimodal model developed for the PUMS.

Feasibility project of the mass transport system for the connection between the area of the railway station located in Latina Scalo and the city centre TRTingegneria as member of the consortium formed by Tecnosistem (leader) and One Works (partner), has been commissioned to draft the Technical and Economic Feasibility Project – PFTE – for the public transport connection between the railway station (located in Latina Scalo) and the city center of Latina. Within the project, TRTIngegneria is responsible for the preparation of the cost-benefit analysis and risk analyses. The Cost-Benefit Analysis evaluates, by comparison, different alternatives of the public transport lines’ routes through the calculation of their main economic indicators (Economic Net Present Value – ENPV and Economic Internal Rate of Return – EIRR). The basic approach of every evaluation is the comparison of different alternative scenarios against the reference scenario of no project implementation. The analysis is conducted considering the MIT Guidelines for the evaluation of investments in public works (2017) and the recent Addendums for the submission of applications for access to resources designated for Rapid Mass Transport by Fixed Installations and for the evaluation of railway projects (2021). As required by the ministerial guidelines, the economic analysis is accompanied by the qualitative risk analysis and the quantitative risk analysis, that has been developed using the specialized software (@Risk). The @Risk software employs Monte Carlo simulation, a statistical technique that involves running multiple simulations using random variables to generate possible outcomes for a decision or event. The quantitative risk analysis is enhanced with sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, and their optimization. For the main statistical variables (e.g., investment costs, operational costs, benefits, etc.), the software allows choosing from numerous distribution curves and generates numerical and graphic outputs with the calculation of P90 and/or P80 and P50 probabilities for the results of the analyses conducted.

Technical assistance to assess the potential demand for a public transport system in the ceramic district area and connections to Modena The Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility Sector – General Directorate for Territorial and Environmental Management of the Emilia-Romagna Region entrusted TRT Ingegneria with the “Technical assistance aimed at assessing the potential demand for a public transport system in the area of the ceramic district and connections with Modena”. The purpose of the study was to carry out an analysis of possible alternatives for the local public transport system along the corridor between Sassuolo and Vignola. In the first instance the study analysed the main characteristics of the area considering: current rail and road public transport offer, both in terms of routes and active services; travel demand based on available sources, both local and regional. In particular, reference was made to the Origin-Destination (OD) matrices estimated by PRIT2025, the PUMS of Modena and the Distretto Ceramico, as well as data on the demand transported by LPT services in the area; various sector planning documents currently in force, in order to better understand what is envisaged in the corridor under study.   Starting from this knowledge base, the study identified five different alternatives for new public transport services between Sassuolo and Vignola for a subsequent preliminary assessment. The preliminary assessment cross-referenced demand data with supply data referring to the different systems (capacity, performance, costs, investment and management, etc.) and was complemented by a multi-criteria analysis that followed three main steps: definition of evaluation criteria and sub-criteria; estimation of the criteria weights through the involvement of local administrators and stakeholders by means of interviews; normalisation of the measurements to ensure comparability.  

Urban reorganization and landscape requalification sheet – Logistic hub in Isola della Scala The Municipality of Isola della Scala, affected by the provisions of the «Quadrante Europa Area Plan» (PAQE), which include – among others – the development of a logistics hub on its territory, has entrusted TRT Ingegneria with the service of drafting a Masterplan called «Urban reorganization and landscape requalification sheet». The focal point of the logistics hub is the provision for an intermodal centre, an infrastructure specialized in rail-to-rail and rail-to-road exchange functions located along the Verona-Bologna railway line (on the Brenner route and part of the TEN-T «Scandinavian-Mediterranean» corridor). Methodologically, the drafting process of the Masterplan is structured into the following macro-actions: Analysis of the regulatory and planning framework, starting from the PAQE, the Territorial Plan (PAT) of the Municipality of Isola della Scala, and its Intervention Plan (PI); Analysis of the urban and landscape context, with specific reference to the portions of urbanized territory as well as to agricultural and environmentally valuable and landscape territory; Analysis of the mobility networks and services, including existing, planned, and envisaged private and public connections (with specific reference to the 11 themed areas identified by the PAQE) and the road and rail accessibility conditions to the intermodal centre’s location; Definition of macro-intervention strategies and subsequent discussion of intervention options, both with the Municipality and with the main stakeholders involved in urban and territorial transformations; Drafting of the Masterplan through a unitary study and proposal of the 11 themes identified in the PAQE («The city of education», «Relocation of the hospital hub», «Area of research and innovative tertiary», «Area for agri-food development», «The rice supply chain», «Intermodal centre area», «Area for logistics and agri-food and innovation supply chain», «Market road area», «Agro-cultural paths», «The eco-mills of the Tartaro River», and «Agricamping area»); particular attention is paid to defining the urban and transport needs necessary to achieve the development of the logistics hub for the enhancement of the agri-food sector and tourism; Qualitative evaluation of the feasibility and sustainability of the proposals.