Il trasporto combinato marittimo in Italia: cambiamenti nella geografia portuale ed effetti territoriali

[Machine translation] In recent years, the role of maritime transport as a tool has increased, It is of paramount importance in limiting the mobility of , goods by road., The need to make it more environmentally sustainable and , more competitive in economic terms has the logistics system pushed , the European Union to promote the use of combined maritime transport, with , particular attention to the so-called 'motorways of the sea'. These last-, Can they identify the maritime transport segment based on fixed lines , at a defined rate that use Ro-Ro ships in which boarding and disembarking , of the load does not require the aid of cranes or other external mechanical means, , because the goods are placed on floors or in containers, loaded and unloaded , by means of self-propelled vehicles., Despite the growth recorded by Ro-Ro traffic in recent years at , European scale, the interest of literature in this transport option, The goods are still limited because the attention is mainly , focused on container traffic., Therefore, it is considered important to deepen the examination of this solution , intermodal, which appears to be relevant in particular in our country. In fact, , the maritime combination, in addition to being widespread in Italian ports, , plays a fundamental role both in infra-national connections and , in the infra-Mediterranean connections., In light of what has been stated, the contribution proposes a path of re-, Look that, starting with the construction of a database of Ro-Ro traffic , in Italian ports in the period 2011-2022, leads to the representation , thematic of the above-mentioned data through the support of the carto-, graphic. Precisely the latter constitutes a fundamental requirement for , carry out the analysis of the evolution of combined maritime traffic-, road, evaluating its impact on port geography, the differences between , the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic shores as well as the induced territorial effects , in terms of reinforcement/confirmation of the centrality of port nodes and , to increase the development potential of port regions.