Nowadays the UE transport world is going through a particular situation of innovation, starting from deregulation processes. This deregulation process is now in full and unstoppable evolution: this is proved by the UE governments' acknowledgment and putting into effect of directives concerning the opening up of the market. In particular, in Italy, discussions about separation of the company which owns railway lines from the group "Ferrovie della Stato" (Public Railways). Certainly the same thing can be said about local public transport (LPT): the deregulation process will really change this sector by: the consequences on transport offer and in particular on the transport companies' features, the entry of new operators, services offered, correspondence of these with the demand's requirements; the consequences on transport demand, considering the influence that the regulation process may have on the modal distribution of customers between public and private services; new market trends: tenders and company strategies to face growing competition; legal elements about the separation of infrastructures and capital goods property and the real service performance according to Italian laws. Moreover, the necessary integrated vision of mobility leads to consider the different functions of Public Transport Agencies and Mobility Agencies: the latter should be the extension of the first, by a More integrated vision of transport and of its elements (i.e. private transport). For the covering abstract see ITRD E128680.
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