The Italian expenditure in transport infrastructure: a survey

Paolo Beria, Marco Brambilla and Stefano Erba

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Abstract: The aim of the paper is to analyse the most important quantitative data on Italian expenditures in transport infrastructures (investment and maintenance costs), linking the expenditure with traffic flows. The analysis concerns rail and road networks (both for national and local roads), over the last ten years, and a possible forecast for the next years, thanks to the official previsions of the “Objective Law”. The whole analysis is based on official data. The planned infrastructures will analyzed with taxonomical and cost – benefit approaches, in order to provide a ranking of priority. The results show how the planning of the investment expenditure is still based on different criteria than efficiency. So, the foreseen expenditure will not able to give relevant effects in order to improve the efficiency of the transport system and to obtain better allocative issues.

Keywords: transport expenditure; italy; infrastructure; investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H54 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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