The Assessment Tool for the Design of the Territories. The Impacts from the Road Infrastructure in the Inland Areas of the Province of Reggio Calabria

The large scale works that most deeply mark the fate of a territory are certainly the transport infrastructure (broad lines of road and rail links, ports, airports, intermodal nodes), which have important economic implications for the entire production and commercial apparatus located in the industrial and urban areas. The preventive analysis to verify the quality of the infrastructure projects is entrusted to the feasibility studies, which are the most appropriate tool to evaluate the opportunity to make a public investment. The assessment of the effects of transport infrastructure is a key element of regional planning and, in particular, the planning of new infrastructure. However, it is important not to underestimate the assessment culture, even in the case of renovation of existing works, where both the accurate detection of the context data and the verification of both impacts that can be generated by the interventions, is very often neglected.