While in Europe there are discussions about how to reach the goals for sustainable transport, how to incentivize intermodality and push on collective transportation, in Italy, even for 2023/24, mobility numbers tell of a country that is still not very eco-friendly. Illustrating the scenario is ISFORT with its 21st "Audimob" mobility report. On the podium, always the dear old car. In 2023, 65% of Italians preferred four-wheelers (-1.6% compared to 2022, but +2.5% compared to 2019) and on our roads their number has now exceeded 40 million. Of these, 23% are over 20 years old (they were less than half in 2010 and 19.1% in 2020). The least 'virtuous'? They belong to the lowest income brackets. Those below 15 thousand euros with 72.0%; between 20 and 25 thousand euros with 67.5% while the bands with more than 25 thousand euros stand at 56.4%. In peripheral and ultra peripheral areas of municipalities, where the lowest ones are concentrated, the share of active mobility falls below 20%, the share of public transport below 5%, while the weight of cars and motorcycles exceeds 75%. Public transport remains in trouble because, despite tentative signs of recovery (+1.2% in 2023), it fails to recover its pre-pandemic shares (-2.2%). And, on the horizon, a less than reassuring picture: the demographic decline predicted by ISTAT will produce a -2% reduction in travel to 2034 and -7% to 2044. This is the best of the forecasts because in the more pessimistic ones the decline widens to -3% and -9%, respectively. The greatest impacts of displacement will be on the 14-19 age groups, -15% to 2034 and -28% to 2044. Those of workers will also contract by -6% to 2034 and 14% to 2044. Under current conditions, in the mobility market, these figures will hit public transportation trips the hardest, which, as noted above, are made by students twice as much as other modes of transportation.
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