Mobility

Annual study by Kyoto Club and Institute on Atmospheric Pollution of the National Research Council (CNR-IIA)

Description

“MobilitAria” is the annual study of the Kyoto Club and Institute on Atmospheric Pollution of the National Research Council (CNR-IIA). The aim is to outline a picture of the air quality trend and urban mobility policies in the 14 main Italian cities and metropolitan areas.

The study was carried out by a group of experts of the CNR-IIA (National Research Council Institute on Atmospheric Pollution) and of Kyoto Club, Sustainable Mobility Group, taking as a reference the municipal area of ​​each Metropolitan City. The cities are Bari, Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Messina, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Turin, Venice

The reasons behind the study start from the consideration that in Italy there is no place where they are accumulated in an integrated way urban mobility data, to be correlated with the trend of air quality. There is no context in which to find traces of the measures and actions carried out by the Municipal Administrations, where to think about the results, exchanging experiences and good practices. Of course, there are several places - research institutes, ministries, agencies, observatories, associations, local authorities - where sectorial data are collected and processed, but what is missing is a integrated vision of data and phenomena. Among other things, the data are often scarce, partial, contradictory, unsystematic, without shared methods of detection: this in itself constitutes a problem that would deserve commitment and investment for its solution, in order to build a common basis for comparison.

The ambition of the Kyoto Club-CNR IIA group is that of make this study permanent systematically continuing with the annual collection and analysis of data, to extend this work to the 14 Metropolitan Cities because it is precisely at this scale that a large part of the movements take place, to extend the reference parameters (Noise pollution, congestion, traffic data, climate-altering emissions). And maybe to be able to reproduce this work for all the capital cities, in order to enhance the quality and capacity of Italian medium-sized cities, which have similar problems to large cities and have often been capable of excellent innovations in the field of urban mobility.