Lombardy is the undisputed queen of Italian infrastructure, but there is one sector in which it is clamorously beaten. It is that of ultra-broadband infrastructure, which sees the first place Sicilia with a coverage percentage of 88,7% of the real estate units. The regional classification also reserves other surprises: in fact, in second place there is the Puglia (87,5%) and third the Lazio (86,5%). Right off the podium Toscana, Liguria e Campania, all above 85%. 7 other regions (Lombardia, Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Basilicata, Veneto, Marche e Umbria) are placed in the range between 75% and 85% coverage while below 60% there are just 2: Trentino Alto Adige (58,5%) and Valle d'Aosta (45,3%). The numbers are contained in a research by the Institute for Competitiveness (I-Com) presented today at Palazzo Colonna in Rome during an event entitled “#TavoloItalia18. The relations between companies and territories for economic development and the renewed trust of citizens".
The study also shows that, among the fastest connections (200 Mbps - 1 Gbps), the first four positions are occupied by regions with a coverage rate of more than 20% of the UI: three in the North, i.e. Lombardy (24,9%), Liguria (23,9%) , Piedmont (22,2%) and one in the South, Campania, with 21,3%. Three other regions are positioned between 19% and 15% or Umbria, Sardinia and Sicily, all above the national average, equal to 14,1% of the Italian IUs. Between 10% and 15% are classified Emilia Romagna and Lazio, while the other regions are distributed almost equally: five above the quota of 5% of the UI covered and six below this quota.
THE ENERGY SECTOR
Compared to energy infrastructures, the first region in Italy for energy density electricity transmission network it is Lombardy, with 162 meters of network for each square km of surface; followed by Valle d'Aosta, Liguria, Veneto and Campania, with an extension of just over 100 m/sq km. Molise and Basilicata are last in the ranking, with less than 30 mXNUMX of transmission network. Instead, Lombardy moves to third place in terms of a Distribution network, leaving the primacy to Campania and Lazio, with respectively 6.463 m/sq km and 5.749 m/sq km. At the bottom of the ranking, in this case, Valle d'Aosta and Trentino Alto Adige.
Moving on to the infrastructures for transporting and distributing gas, both for one and the other, the first region in Italy in terms of network density is Lombardy, with 187 m/sq km and 2.008 m/sq km, respectively.
THE WATER SECTOR
Also with regard to water, Lombardy is the first region for volumes introduced into the network - more than 1,3 billion cubic meters - with 25% of real water losses. For urban waste water purification plants, Piedmont - with 3.888 plants - is the absolute first region, followed by Emilia Romagna and Lombardy, where there are 2.037 plants and 1.498, respectively.
About half of the national polluting load flowing into treatment plants, in terms of population equivalent, is treated in Northern Italy, particularly in Lombardy, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna.
THE TRANSPORT SECTOR
Valle d'Aosta is the region with the highest density of highway network, with its 770 km for every million registered cars. On the other hand, it is Piedmont that stands out as regards the railway network, at least in absolute terms (with a network 1.895 km long), while in relative terms Liguria takes first place (92 meters for each sq km of regional territory).
Turning to airplane transport, 47% of flights take place in Lazio and Lombardy, mobilizing over half of the passengers in transit. In particular, Rome Fiumicino is by far the first among Italian airports, with its 204.781 flights and almost 23 million transiting passengers.
THE I-COM INDEX OF INFRASTRUCTURAL EQUIPMENT
To generally describe the degree of infrastructural development of the Italian regions, I-Com has also developed a synthetic index that takes into account the various sectors. From this ranking it emerges that the Lombardia continues to lead the league with a score of 100, followed by Campania, which owes its positioning to the development of the latest generation networks and the good capillarity of the electricity network (the best in terms of distribution), motorway and railway. Once again the wide inter-regional inequality that sees regions as Sardinia and Valle D'Aosta at the opposite end of the ranking, with an infrastructural index approximately 70-80% lower than in Lombardy.
