Monza: the Council approves the first Urban Plan for Sustainable Mobility. Pilotto: “Environmental, social and economic sustainability objectives”.

The document, for the technical part, was created in collaboration with Monza Mobilità and with the consultancy company Sintagma Srl.

“We intend to field concrete actions to improve urban quality: for this reason the approach to mobility issues places the protection of the environment and the health of citizens at the center, thinking about mobility models that are increasingly attentive to social, environmental and economic data", explains Mayor Paolo Pilotto.

Plan.

Through the Urban Plan for Sustainable Mobility the Municipality equips itself with a strategic planning tool that develops a medium-long term urban mobility system vision, approximately 10 years, to achieve environmental, social and economic sustainability objectives through the definition of actions aimed at improving effectiveness and the efficiency of the mobility system, both for people and goods, and its integration with the territorial urban planning and development.

The expected results and the reduction of pollutants.

The mobility system was modeled to provide decision support tools thanks to the comparison between the current scenario and the project one. From the analyzes carried out, to date in the city 67% of trips take place using a private car, 17% using local public transport and 16% on foot or by bicycle. With the implementation of the interventions included in the PUMS, the aim is to substantially change the way of moving around the city, encouraging the use of collective transport and active mobility. The goal is to reduce trips by own car by 50% and increase trips by local public transport to 30%. and 20% those on foot or by bike, thus obtaining a +15-19% of trips through sustainable mobility.

The objective was defined by comparing the plan scenarios defined by the PUMS of other Italian cities comparable in size and characteristics of the mobility system. The model was used to estimate the impacts in terms of reduction of polluting emissions: equal to approximately 30% less for nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and particulate matter, as well as a significant reduction in noise pollution.

"Local authorities will be the public entities called upon to manage the transition towards sustainable mobility – explains Giada Turato, Councilor for Mobility – For this reason, the first sustainable mobility plan for Monza represents a significant lever for driving change through actions that will start from the city but will also impact a larger territorial area".

5 objectives for the city.

The PUMS makes a fundamental transition from transport planning to mobility system planning, going beyond the approach that saw the private vehicular mobility as a central and critical element on which to operate, in favor of the evaluation of people's travel needs and the related offer of sustainable travel methods.

The objectives of the plan intend to make Monza: innovative and sustainable; accessible and inclusive; attractiveness; safe; polycentric through actions inserted in an organic and integrated framework, capable of designing a new mobility model.

The mix of interventions to be implemented in the next 10 years. For each objective the necessary actions are outlined:

1. The goal of making the city innovative and sustainable will be achieved through the creation of a traffic management center capable of integrating traffic light systems, parking guidance and access control to the city's restricted traffic zones. For this project the Municipality with Monza Mobilità is participating in a Lombardy Region procedure for the allocation of approximately 2,5 million euros. To pursue the objective of sustainability, interventions are planned for the electrification of the bus fleets, through the purchase, by 2026, of 25 electric buses and with the aim of having the city's entire public transport fleet completely electric by 2030. at the same time the parking system will be reorganized through lintroduction of a further six ZPRUs in addition to the two already activated in 2023, going so far as to regulate additional stalls between yellow lines for residents and blue lines for a fee. Awareness-raising activities will also be carried out aimed at spreading the culture of shared, sustainable and multimodal mobility. The actions aimed at pursuing this objective are completed by the rationalization of urban logistics, the limitation of circulation for high-emission vehicles, in line with the provisions of the Regional Air Quality Intervention Plan of Lombardy, actions aimed at the progressive replacement of vehicles more polluting which establishes permanent restrictions on circulation throughout the entire municipal territory for petrol vehicles Euro 0 and 1, diesel Euro 0 to 4, the possible expansion of the restricted traffic zone in the historic center to the area between Via Visconti, Via Aliprandi, Via D' Azeglio, Via Appiani and Via Manzoni. In the case of doubling, the affected surface area would go from the current 0,3 square kilometers to 0,6 square kilometers in the plan scenario;
2. For the aim of making the city accessible and inclusive the planning of the FFS multimodal hub in central Monza through forms of collaboration with the Lombardy Region and the companies of the Ferrovie dello Stato group and the creation of the new hub in eastern Monza - park already currently financed are identified as actions. The actions aimed at pursuing this objective are completed with the extension of approximately 13 kilometers of the M5 metro line to Monza with the construction of 7 new stations.
3. The goal of making the city attractive will be pursued with the improvement of local public transport services with the basin Agency, through the review of the frequencies of buses serving the city and, for large events taking place in the city, with the definition of the mobility management method . To pursue the objective of making the city safe, engineering actions are identified aimed primarily at making active and scholastic mobility routes attractive and safe and at resolving, with slow mobility solutions, some critical nodes of the urban road network. In addition to these, awareness-raising actions are planned, particularly aimed at schools.
4. Furthermore, the creation of environmental islands is envisaged and pedestrian spaces spread across the territory in areas of particular urban, social and economic importance, to be strengthened with the creation of Zone 30 whose gradual extension to the entire secondary and local road network is expected. The mobility management actions, mainly aimed at rationalizing home-work travel, are based on interventions agreed with the mobility managers operating in the area.

The strategy.

The strategy identified by the PUMS for pursuing the five objectives indicated is divided into the following points: reducing the demand for mobility or the quantity of journeys and their length. In the medium to long term it will be necessary to manage the demand for mobility through city government and territorial planning interventions; shift mobility shares towards more sustainable forms by promoting the transfer from the use of private cars towards shared mobility services, cycling and pedestrian mobility; encourage the idea of ​​mobility as a service in the awareness that the concept of mobility is still strongly linked to the use of one's own car despite this having unsustainable economic, social and environmental impacts; encourage multimodality given the close functional correlation with the other urban centralities of the Milan metropolitan area; improve the environmental performance of vehicles by encouraging the use of vehicles, dedicated to shared and private mobility, with low or zero emissions; digitize services as these technologies allow for significant improvements in the mobility system with relatively low investments and short implementation times; rationalize urban logistics by looking carefully at the technological innovations of this specific sector which already allow the use of vehicles with very low environmental impact.

The document process.

The guiding principles of the PUMS are the involvement and coordination of stakeholders in the drafting phase of the plan document, the monitoring of the actions carried out and the evaluation of the results achieved.

The PUMS places people and the satisfaction of their mobility needs at the centre, following a participatory approach that involves the active involvement of citizens and all those who use the city (cityusers).

After its adoption by the Council, the document will soon be available online for any comments to be submitted within 60 days of its publication, before final approval by the City Council.