Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Transport in Italy
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Technical classification=== ====Motorways==== {{main|Autostrade of Italy}} [[File:Autostrada del Sole - Italy - panoramio.jpg|thumb|[[Autostrada A1 (Italy)|Autostrada A1]] runs through [[Italy]] linking some of the [[List of cities in Italy|largest cities of the country]]: [[Milan]], [[Bologna]], [[Florence]], [[Rome]] and [[Naples]].]] [[File:Autostrada A20 Torregrotta.jpg|thumb|[[Autostrada A20 (Italy)|Autostrada A20]] runs through the island of [[Sicily]] linking [[Palermo]] to [[Messina]].]] Italy was the first country in the world to build [[motorway]]s, the so-called ''[[Autostrade of Italy|autostrade]]'', reserved for fast traffic and for motor vehicles only.<ref name=independent/><ref name="motorwebmuseum"/> The ''[[Autostrada dei Laghi]]'' ("Lakes Motorway"), the first built in the world, connecting [[Milan]] to [[Lake Como]] and [[Lake Maggiore]], and now parts of the [[Autostrada A8 (Italy)|Autostrada A8]] and the [[Autostrada A9 (Italy)|Autostrada A9]], was devised by [[Piero Puricelli]] and was inaugurated in 1924.<ref name="motorwebmuseum"/> Other motorways (or ''autostrade'') built before [[World War II]] in [[Italy]] were [[Naples]]-[[Pompeii]], [[Florence]]-[[Pisa]], [[Padua]]-[[Venice]], [[Milan]]-[[Turin]], Milan-[[Bergamo]]-[[Brescia]] and [[Rome]]-[[Ostia (quarter of Rome)|Ostia]]. The total length of the [[Autostrade of Italy|Italian motorway system]] is about {{convert|7016|km|abbr=on}}, as of 30 July 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aggiornamenti sull'evoluzione del regolamento europeo (AFIR) per la modifica della direttiva europea in materia di combustibili alternativi (DAFI) |trans-title=Updates on the evolution of the European regulation (AFIR) for the amendment of the European directive on alternative fuels (DAFI) |publisher=AISCAT |language=it |url=https://www.aiscat.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AISCAT-1_2_2022-Edizione-Trimestrale.pdf |access-date=14 March 2024 |archive-date=28 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728051041/https://www.aiscat.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AISCAT-1_2_2022-Edizione-Trimestrale.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> To these data are added 13 motorway [[spur route]]s, which extend for {{convert|355|km|abbr=on}}.<ref name="LE AUTOSTRADE">{{Cite web |url=https://www.stradeanas.it/it/le-strade/la-rete-anas/le-autostrade |title=LE AUTOSTRADE |access-date=14 March 2024 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114204559/https://www.stradeanas.it/it/le-strade/la-rete-anas/le-autostrade |url-status=live }}</ref> The density is {{convert|22.4|km|abbr=on}} of motorway for every {{convert|1000|km2}} of Italian territory.<ref name="Le strade dell'informazione">{{cite web|url=http://www.lestradedellinformazione.it/acm-on-line/Home/PrimoPiano/articolo4795.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804095215/http://www.lestradedellinformazione.it/acm-on-line/Home/PrimoPiano/articolo4795.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 August 2012|title=Le strade dell'informazione|access-date=3 March 2024}}</ref> Italy was the first country in the world to build [[motorway]]s, the so-called ''[[Autostrade of Italy|autostrade]]'', reserved for fast traffic and for motor vehicles only.<ref name="independent"/><ref name="motorwebmuseum"/> The ''[[Autostrada dei Laghi]]'' ("Lakes Motorway"), the first built in the world, connecting [[Milan]] to [[Lake Como]] and [[Lake Maggiore]], and now parts of the [[Autostrada A8 (Italy)|Autostrada A8]] and the [[Autostrada A9 (Italy)|Autostrada A9]], was devised by [[Piero Puricelli]] and was inaugurated in 1924.<ref name="motorwebmuseum"/> Other motorways (or ''autostrade'') built before [[World War II]] in [[Italy]] were [[Naples]]-[[Pompeii]], [[Florence]]-[[Pisa]], [[Padua]]-[[Venice]], [[Milan]]-[[Turin]], Milan-[[Bergamo]]-[[Brescia]] and [[Rome]]-[[Ostia (quarter of Rome)|Ostia]]. The total length of the [[Autostrade of Italy|Italian motorway system]] is about {{convert|7016|km|abbr=on}}, as of 30 July 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aggiornamenti sull'evoluzione del regolamento europeo (AFIR) per la modifica della direttiva europea in materia di combustibili alternativi (DAFI) |trans-title=Updates on the evolution of the European regulation (AFIR) for the amendment of the European directive on alternative fuels (DAFI) |publisher=AISCAT |language=it |url=https://www.aiscat.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AISCAT-1_2_2022-Edizione-Trimestrale.pdf |access-date=14 March 2024 |archive-date=28 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728051041/https://www.aiscat.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AISCAT-1_2_2022-Edizione-Trimestrale.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> To these data are added 13 motorway [[spur route]]s, which extend for {{convert|355|km|abbr=on}}.<ref name="LE AUTOSTRADE"/> The density is {{convert|22.4|km|abbr=on}} of motorway for every {{convert|1000|km2}} of Italian territory.<ref name="Le strade dell'informazione"/> In particular, {{convert|1870.2|km|abbr=on}} of the Italian motorway network have three lanes per carriageway, {{convert|129|km|abbr=on}} km have four lanes per carriageway, {{convert|1.8|km|abbr=on}} have five lanes per carriageway, while the remaining part is two lanes per carriageway.<ref name="aiscat2">{{Cite web |url=http://aiscat.it/pubblicazioni/downloads/trim_3-4_2017.pdf |title=L'EVOLUZIONE DEL PEDAGGIO E DEI MECCANISMI DI ESAZIONE |access-date=23 October 2018 |archive-date=23 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023161908/http://aiscat.it/pubblicazioni/downloads/trim_3-4_2017.pdf |language=it}}</ref> The density is {{convert|22.4|km|abbr=on}} of motorway for every {{convert|1000|km2|abbr=on}} of Italian territory.<ref name="estradedellinformazione">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lestradedellinformazione.it/acm-on-line/Home/PrimoPiano/articolo4795.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804095215/http://www.lestradedellinformazione.it/acm-on-line/Home/PrimoPiano/articolo4795.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 August 2012|title=Le strade dell'informazione|access-date=5 March 2024|language=it}}</ref> Italian motorways (or ''autostrade'') are mostly managed by concessionaire companies. From 1 October 2012 the granting body is the [[Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (Italy)|Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport]] and no longer [[Anas (company)|Anas]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stradeanas.it/index.php?/content/index/arg/convenzioni_societa|title=nas S.p.A. - Le società concessionarie|access-date=3 March 2024|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100935/http://www.stradeanas.it/index.php?/content/index/arg/convenzioni_societa|url-status=live}}</ref> and the majority ({{convert|5773.4|km|abbr=on}} in 2009<ref name=luz>{{cite web|url=http://www.stradeanas.it/index.php?/news/download/file/1617|title=Ispettorato Vigilanza Concessioni Autostradali - Attività ed obiettivi|access-date=3 March 2024|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062414/http://www.stradeanas.it/index.php?/news/download/file/1617|url-status=live}}</ref>) are subject to [[Toll (fee)|toll]] payments. On Italian motorways, the [[Toll (fee)|toll]] applies to almost all motorways not managed by [[Anas (company)|Anas]]. The collection of motorway tolls, from a tariff point of view, is managed mainly in two ways: either through the "closed motorway system" (km travelled) or through the "open motorway system" (flat-rate toll).<ref name="autostrade.it">[http://www.autostrade.it/il-pedaggio/come-si-calcola.html?initPosAra=4_1 Come si calcola il pedaggio - Autostrade per l'Italia S.p.A] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406014722/http://www.autostrade.it/il-pedaggio/come-si-calcola.html?initPosAra=4_1 |date=6 April 2010 }}</ref> Italy's motorways (or ''autostrade'') have a standard speed limit of {{cvt|130|km/h|mph|round=5}} for cars. Limits for other vehicles (or when visibility is poor due to weather) are lower. Legal provisions allow operators to set the limit to {{cvt|150|km/h|mph|round=5}} on their concessions on a voluntary basis if there are three lanes in each direction and a working [[SPECS (speed camera)|SICVE]], or Safety Tutor, which is a speed-camera system that measures the average speed over a given distance. ====Extra-urban roads==== [[File:Via_aurelia_presso_livorno_02.JPG|thumb|The stretch from [[Grosseto]] to [[Livorno]] of the [[Strada statale 1 Via Aurelia]] is classified as ''[[strada extraurbana principale]]''.]] In Italy, a [[dual carriageway]] is often called ''superstrada'' (meaning ''expressway''), but this name is unofficial. Italian [[traffic code]] (''Codice della strada'') divides extra-urban dual carriageways into two different classifications:<ref name="aci">{{cite web |url= http://www.aci.it/index.php?id=460 |title= Codice della strada della Repubblica Italiana |trans-title= Italian Highway Code |author= Automobile Club Italia |access-date= 1 February 2010 |language= it |archive-date= 16 July 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110716191150/http://www.aci.it/index.php?id=460 |url-status= live }}</ref> * ''[[strada extraurbana principale]]'' (meaning ''main highway'') or ''type-B road'': a road with separate carriageways, at least two lanes for each direction, paved shoulder on the right and no cross-traffic. This type of road is quite similar to an ''[[autostrada]]'' or ''type-A road'' (Italian official name for [[motorway]]s or [[freeway]]s), but its building standards are lower. Access limitations and drive behaviour on type-B roads are the same as the motorways (no pedestrians, bicycles and other slow vehicles), as well as the signage (except for the background color, that is blue instead of green). Speed limits on type-B roads are up to {{cvt|110|km/h|mph|round=5}}. Type-B roads are always toll-free. * ''strada extraurbana secondaria'' (meaning ''secondary road'') or ''type-C road''. This category contains all the roads in non-urban context that are neither ''autostrada'' (type A) nor ''strada extraurbana principale'' (type B). This means that a dual carriageway that may not be classified as type-B road, since it does not meet such quality standards, belongs to this category. For type-C roads, there are neither special signage nor access restrictions, unless a specific sign is placed. The speed limit is {{cvt|90|km/h|mph|round=5}}, on both single and dual carriageways. ====Urban roads==== [[File:Rom 2011-08-by-RaBoe-13.jpg|thumb|[[Via Cristoforo Colombo]] at [[Porta Ardeatina]] in [[Rome]], classified as ''strada urbana di scorrimento'']] These are the roads present within inhabited centers. Urban roads are of three types:<ref name="aci"/> * ''strada urbana di scorrimento'' (meaning ''urban expressway'') or ''type-D road'': a road in urban context, with separate carriageways, and at least two lanes for each direction. At-level junctions with smaller roads, regulated by traffic lights, are allowed as well as [[roundabout]]s. Unless a prohibition sign is placed, there are not access restrictions. Speed limits on this type of road are up to {{cvt|70|km/h|mph|round=5}}. * ''strada urbana di quartiere'' (meaning ''urban neighborhood road'') or ''type E road'': single carriageway road with at least two lanes, paved shoulders and sidewalks; for parking there are areas equipped with a special maneuvering lane, outside the roadway; ** ''strada urbana ciclabile'' (meaning ''urban cycle road'') or ''type E-bis road'': urban road with a single carriageway, with paved shoulders and sidewalks, with a speed limit of no more than 30 km/h, defined by specific vertical and horizontal signs, with priority for bicycles. * ''strada locale'' (meaning ''local road'') or ''type F road'': urban or extra-urban road not belonging to the other types of roads; ** ''strada vicinale'': is a privately owned road of local interest located outside the town centre. In Italy the local road is a de facto communication route built to access a series of plots of land, or generally to connect to a road. ** ''itinerario ciclopedonale'' (meaning ''cycle/pedestrian itinerary'') or ''type F-bis road'': local, urban, extra-urban or local road, mainly intended for pedestrian and cycle travel, and characterized by intrinsic safety to protect vulnerable road users.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)