First day of the ‘Wave’ mobility conference kicks off in Rome

“We must take steps forward gradually. We all know that we should move towards electric mobility but this step must be economically sustainable. Often we do not talk about the energy that will be used to keep these electric vehicles going. We must invest in the networks of electricity. electricity distribution and also in the production of energy from renewable sources. Balance is needed for these changes. We all have to do our duty and help each other. Today young people have the desire to move and any means is good for them. The correct answer to these new needs can be given by an urban plan of sustainable mobility, for example by classifying the viability on 2 levels, a primary one where authorized vehicles can move and a room where all other road users can move more safely. mobility”. Thus Enrico Pagliari, head of the Aci technical area, during his speech for the first day of the conference on sustainable mobility “Wave”. The panel “From rules to practice: EU directives applied in Italy” was also attended by MEP Patrizia Toia, the mayor of Treviso and Anci Veneto president Mario Conte and Pierpaolo Settembri, head of unit of the DG Move Coordination of the European Commission, who explained: “Today we have all recognized that we are facing an epochal challenge. The European strategy for sustainable and intelligent mobility, in the pre-Covid phase, had a big obstacle, that of financing. Covid, inevitably blocking transport, has made it possible to create the urgency to deploy extraordinary resources and important funds that we were not used to. The strategy can be summarized in 3 principles: all modes of transport must become more sustainable, sustainable alternatives must be increased compared to existing ones and positive incentives in relation to pollution and the use of infrastructures economic tives. Sometimes stimuli are enough “. The mayor of Treviso then added:” We are not exactly ready as a country for change. From an ideological point of view we are, but the truth is that we have to deal with the structures and what we have available. We must give answers to our citizens and accompany them in the change. We are not the best in Europe but we are not the worst either. In Treviso we accelerated with the urban plan of the sustainable city and we have been working on the city of 15 minutes for a year. We must also train new managers, because the skills that a sector such as the environment and mobility requires today are really very high. Our goal is to create a city suitable for children. “” We will continue in this direction without forgetting all that slice of the population that will probably find it hard to accept change. If we don’t create the right conditions, citizens will always be reluctant. Covid has given an incredible acceleration from the point of view of mobility and ecological transition “.