Regions and autonomous provinces have planned 5,771 additional vehicles for the local public transport service in the period September-December 2021, to address the reopening of schools with 100% attendance, the resumption of work activities and the filling coefficient of the vehicles equal to 80% of homologated seats. This is attested by the monitoring report published by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, illustrated by Minister Enrico Giovannini during the update meeting with the prefects of metropolitan cities. A meeting that took place one month after the resumption after the summer break.
They will travel almost 43 million km more
On the roads, additional buses, trains, subways and trolley buses, the report reads, will produce almost 43 million kilometers more services, an increase of about 323% compared to those of the same period in 2020. In many cases the increase is accompanied by an increase in the number of controllers. Implementing the guidelines published in August, regions, autonomous provinces, municipalities and transport companies “have not only enhanced additional services to avoid gatherings, but have also adopted sanitation and sanitation operations, a more marked use of digitization and technologies , user information campaigns ».
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In Campania the largest number of additional vehicles
Campania is the region that has planned to make the largest number of additional vehicles available to citizens: 950 well. Lombardy follows with 644 additional vehicles, Puglia with 506, Lazio with 502. Six regions and autonomous provinces have communicated to want to use the funds made available by the ministry to increase the number of controllers, for an estimated total of 746 controllers. The highest charges in Lombardy with more than 26.6 million and in Lazio with over 26.1 million.
Studies and experiments on the sanitization of vehicles
The report indicates that for the sanitation and sanitation activities some companies have started studies and trials of new technological devices to verify their benefits and criticalities. There are automatic devices for sanitizing the air and for internal areas and surfaces, disinfection of vehicles with ozone generating devices or aerosolizing machines.
Tickets and passes are increasingly online
The report indicates that almost all companies have implemented the digitization of some activities in an anti-Covid key: from the sale of tickets and passes online, to the introduction of weekly train-bus passes, to the issue and renewal of Ztl permits online. and Zrs, up to the purchase of tickets through special apps and validation on board with Qr Code. Then passenger counter instruments, Alert bus systems to report in real time on the displays of the vehicles or on the smart poles at the stops the status of capacity of each bus arriving at the stop. Among the innovations there are also initiatives to inform users about the anti-Covid rules and the rules of conduct to be observed.