04.09.2024
Automobile Club Roma presents the ACI Caracciolo Foundation’s study on mobility in the capital at the Campidoglio
A continuously growing fleet (radiations always lower than registrations), increasingly dated, polluting (almost 60% of vehicles are over 10 years old and 20% over 20 years old. Euro 0–3 cars still constitute the 24% of the Roman road traffic) and unsafe: over 13,000 road accidents per year (35 per day; 1.5 every hour), almost 8% of the national total: the equivalent of the sum of accidents that occur in Milan, Genoa and Bari.
The car plays a central role in getting around Rome (77% of the participants in the survey conducted among AC Roma members use a private car). The territorial distribution of cars shows that the latest generation vehicles are concentrated in the municipalities with the highest family and individual income, while the older ones are present in the municipalities with less favored economic conditions. Aspects that must represent a point of attention in the governance of mobility, with a view to guaranteeing the exercise of Romans’ right to travel and the protection of the most economically fragile classes.
In environmental terms, the replacement of Euro 0 to Euro 3 cars with Standard Euro 6 vehicles would lead to a significant reduction in polluting emissions: particulate matter would be reduced overall by over 70%, while the reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) could be quantified at approximately 56%. The elimination of older vehicles would instead lead to a 74% reduction in PM and 65% in nitrogen oxides.
These are some of the most relevant results of the picture that emerges from “Car mobility in Rome”, the Study – carried out by the Caracciolo Foundation, the Study Center of the ACI Federation – presented this morning in the Campidoglio by the Automobile Club Roma, in the presence of the Mobility Councilor of Rome Capital.
“Car mobility in Rome” was enriched by the analysis of the responses to an online questionnaire – developed by experts from the Caracciolo Foundation – proposed to the over 80 thousand members, motorized users, of the Automobile Club Roma. “Rome lies on a vast and composite territory – declared Giuseppina Fusco, President of the Automobile Club Roma –, with a very low population density and a population of almost 3 million inhabitants, increasingly affected by expansion dynamics towards the suburbs and, therefore, with increasingly accentuated commuting, factors that make the development of a widespread, efficient and economically sustainable public transport service difficult and, consequently, make the use of the car central for work and daily life needs, with repercussions in terms of congestion and vehicular traffic. A set of largely old, highly polluting vehicles, without the most performing driving assistance systems, which imposes mobility policies capable of reconciling individual travel needs with the indispensable needs of mitigating the negative impacts that urban circulation determines safety, the environment and social inclusiveness. The adoption of a strategy of qualitative and quantitative increase in the offer of alternative mobility tools to the car, in particular public transport, to integrate the desirable structural measures to incentivize the replacement of vehicles, could accelerate the achievement of the reduction objectives of road accidents and polluting emissions”.