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Standard Cost of Local Public Transport in the Post-COVID-19 Era: The Italian Case

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Abstract

Local Public Transport (LPT) plays a key role in the economic system of any country. The Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdowns led to an unprecedented economic crisis in this sector. Governments had to block all unnecessary travel and keep only essential services moving, reducing public transport services (air, train, bus, metro, etc.) by more than 90%. Despite the economic aids provided by Governments, many LPT companies are facing a crisis that they are unlikely to be able to overcome. This for two reasons: skepticism of passengers in the use of public transport, and therefore reduced revenue from ticket sales, and additional costs for the vehicles’ sanitization Focusing on the Italian case, and especially on Sicily, the paper aims to analyze the standard costs of the LPT road service and assess the cost increase in which companies have to incur in order to meet the guidelines imposed by Government and encourage citizens to use public transport. The paper relies on the results of a direct investigation on clients’ attitudes through a questionnaire submitted to a population travelling to and from the city of Enna in the centre of Sicily.

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Notes

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    This application is based on the official information delivered by local administrations and public transport operators to users in order to offer the best available route of LTP in real time.

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    Source: www.moovit.com

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    Law no. 151 of 10 April 1981: Framework law for the ordering, restructuring and strengthening of local public transport.

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    In this law, rail services were excluded from the fund.

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    It should be specified that AST provides a mixed service (urban and suburban). For the sake of this study, we selected data related only to the extra-urban service.

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Acampa, G., Grasso, M., Parisi, C.M., Ticali, D., Severino, A. (2021). Standard Cost of Local Public Transport in the Post-COVID-19 Era: The Italian Case. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12954. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86979-3_26

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