CDP: “Investing 80 billion in airports to prevent shocks to the country” – The Republic

Milan – We must invest now to increase the handling capacity of the passenger traffic of Italian airports, otherwise “within the next 10 years to deal with congestion the ports of call could cause a decline in service levels and impacts on economy and national competitiveness. ” The CDP writes in a report in July which stated that “the overall contribution of the Italian airport system to the economy is estimated at 3.6% of GDP” considering “the impact of direct, indirect and induced of calls” is the ‘impact “catalytic”, ie the role “of aviation and airport system as efficient as enablers for economic development of a country.”

And since the trend of traffic is increasing, and is expected to pass by 150 million in 2014 to approximately “170 million in 2030, investment, underlines the CDP, are put in place now to avert the risk of” congestion “resulting in” obvious effect “on the economy. The strengthening of the capacity of airports, says the report, “must be achieved primarily by rationalizing and optimizing the existing capacity, and secondly by encouraging the use of that available in the smaller airports which can serve as a ‘reserve capacity’ for the larger ones coinciding peaks of traffic or specialize progressively on particular segments of activity. “

Another element of” criticality “of the Italian airport system, however, is” accessibility of the terminals “because already now” even airports located at short distance from urban centers reference, suffer from slow access time “by” local traffic and road conditions inadequate “.
levels of intermodal,” are altogether inadequate and far from European standards: in fact now are accessible only on iron airports Rome Fiumicino, Milan Malpensa, Palermo, Pisa, Turin and Ancona. However, even in cases where the rail link is active, journey times, frequencies, and the characteristics of the trains, discourage users and make it increasingly competitive rail link than rubber. “

An analysis of the implementation of the actions in the Plan airports “determines the amount of investment of about 80 billion euro” and 48% “of the accessibility of roads and railways and is related to projects charge to local authorities, for motorway or the manager of the rail network “, another 41% is used for the” intermodal “and” only 11% concerns the airport infrastructure in the strict sense “. And ‘then” a desirable process of consolidation of the operators’ and in particular “for smaller airports that insist on catchment areas partially overlapping”, increasing the “profitability” and therefore their appeal to private investors who already “are mainly oriented towards the ports of larger” .

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