Update of the Urban Traffic Plan (UTP) of the Municipality of Piacenza, a short-term (two-year) implementation tool of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan
The Municipality of Piacenza has commissioned TRT to draft the monitoring report for the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) (document submitted and registered on 10/08/2023) and to update the Urban Traffic Plan (UTP).
The UTP is a short-term implementation plan (covering a two-year period) aimed at carrying out the interventions foreseen in the Short-Term Scenario of the SUMP. The development of Piacenza’s UTP follows the guidelines set out in the Ministerial Directives of 1995 and the most recent updates to the Italian Highway Code.
The monitoring of the SUMP lays the foundation for selecting the interventions that define the scenarios of the UTP. In fact, the document reports on the updated state of urban mobility in Piacenza, assessing the progress and impacts of the actions taken since the approval of the SUMP in December 2020.
Based on this evidence, the most consistent interventions with the SUMP’s short-term scenario (2–3 years) have been selected. This selection also considered existing planning tools, such as the 2024–2026 Three-Year Public Works Program, the Cycling Plan (approved on 17/04/2023), the Smart City Plan (October 2019), the Environmental Noise Action Plan, and other strategic documents.
The UTP is developed in three main phases:
- The definition of the objectives of the UTP, aligned with the objectives and strategies of the current SUMP;
- The definition of the Reference Scenario (SR), consisting of interventions considered unchanging over the two-year validity period of the UTP, and serving as the starting point and benchmark for the UTP design;
- The proposal of the Plan Scenario (SP), which is a set of measures consistent with the goals of the PUT, addressing both the supply of networks and services and the policies for managing mobility demand.
With City Council Resolution No. 23 of February 11, 2025, the Municipal Administration adopted the UTP, thus initiating the process that will lead to the plan’s approval by the City Council.
