Major Infrastructure and Highway Systems
Over the years, a significant portion of the Associates’ consultancy work has hinged around Italy’s major railway infrastructure and highway system, thereby constituting one of the associates’ strong points.
Their consultancy work has involved both transportation assessment and underpinning studies on land-use and environment, and has covered successive phases: project financing, feasibility studies, preliminary drafts as stipulated by Italian legislation (Legge Obiettivo -- Legge 443/2001), building projects for comprehensive public procurement tenders, etc. The transportation assessment done since 1998 has involved major nationwide initiatives, including both environmental impact studies presented to ministries and support for project financing initiatives to undertake new stretches of highway, falling under the jurisdiction of the Legge Obiettivo.
Traffic assessments are generally done based on flow simulation models able to represent point of origin-point of destination pertaining to the transportation system serving the area under study.
The approach used in the studies has been solidly corroborated, based on the comparative analysis of various transportation supply and demand scenarios. The systems’ degree of functionality is examined by comparing a non-intervention scenario with the design-based scenario, including forecasts for the short, medium, and long term.
Special attention is attached to the conditions surrounding land-use in the territory under study. Analysis of land-use and transportation planning tools on various scales can be used to ascertain these conditions, and thereby lead to the definition and scheduling of various interventions in the planning process (Quadro Programmatico).
According to the scale of the project in question, the Studio’s studies and activities include pinpointing corridors and itineraries via comprehensive assessment and multi-criteria analysis, performing studies, managing environmental impact assessment to be submitted at different levels of government, and designing environmental mitigation and compensation projects.
