THE ECOPASS EXPERIMENT: WILL OTHER ITALIAN CITIES FOLLOW MILAN’S EXAMPLE?
March 1st, 2008
BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy
MILAN may be the Italian capital of fashion but the Ecopass, introduced in January to limit traffic emissions in the city centre, has enabled the city to set trends in urban transport systems.
The results of its first two months of operation in Milan have been inspiring: a 19% reduction in vehicle traffic and nearly Euro 4 million generated in pass sales.
At present, Limited Traffic Zones (Zone di Traffico Limitato - ZTL) remain the principal mode of managing congestion in major Italian city centres. But the Milan experiment is ...
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