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Brussels 25th October 2004 1
Leader+Local Development Plan
Improving the quality of life: a social and economic development strategy
for the Mountain Alto Oltrepo Pavese
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The LDP’ strategy
• Local Animation
• Done in cooperation (concerted)
• Social and economic analysis
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The area’s weaknesses
• Lack of logistic facilities• Loss of primary services• Difficulty of connection between place where
one lives and social centres• Lack of connection to the relevant centres
situated out of Leader area
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Service’s features
Innovative Organisation
Model
Efficiency of the service
Integration with the public
transport service
Flexibility
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Strengths
• Integrating and enhancing the local transport system
• Establishing an efficient and innovative model that can be used also for other sectors
• Connecting the most isolated and remote areas
• Creating new links with the main centres
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Targets• Reducing logistical and social difficulties
• Reducing and changing the trend of the migrant flow
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The service’s priorities
• Social needs (markets, banks, post office, holy cultural and amusing events)
• Welfare needs (hospitals, medical aid)
• Sport activities
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The territory’s features
• Number of inhabitants: 18628
• Surface 487,32 Kmq• Density 28,2 in/Kmq• Population over 65
6211 in. (34%)• Population under 24
2591 in. (14 %)• Spread Index 48,5 % (nr.
Of inhabitants living in isolated place)
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Actors
• LAG Alto Oltrepo
• Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia (financial partner)
• Pavia Province
• Mountain Community Oltrepo Pavese
• Municipalities
• People
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The steps of the project
• Constitution of a Technical Committee (LAG, Province, Mountain Community) in charge of addressing, monitoring and auditing
• Projecting the service
• Supplying the service
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The preliminary statements
• Marginal territory
• Area where the demand is weak
• Possibility to put into effect a system of “flexible mobility”
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TAXIBUSHow it works
• The users calls the coordination unit
• The coordination unit estimates the needs
• The coordination unit organizes the service
• The coordination unit confirms the service to the users
• The manager distributes the service
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TAXIBUSWeakness
• Necessity to promote and to diffuse the service
• Communication users – management
• Flexibility and dynamism of the service
• Difference between foreseen time and real time
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TAXIBUSThe implementation modalities
Absolutely innovative service for the area: necessary to test the service on a small part of the area before extending it all over the Leader Area
Four municipalities are selected for the testing phase:
Varzi, Brallo di Pregola, Menconico e Santa Margherita Staffora
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TAXIBUSTesting area
• inhabitants: 5500
• surface: 170 Km²
• population over 65: 37%
• density: 29 in./Km²
• Spread Index : 58 %
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TAXIBUS The implementation modalities
• Service assigned by call for proposal
• Coordination of activities
• Communication plan
• Service supply
• Project review during supplying
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TAXIBUS The implementation modalities
• Municipalities involved in decisional processes of booking
• Service brings to institutional level
• Confidence of the users in the service
• To check the real transportation needs
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• Territory served: 4 municipalities out of 22
• Booking system: on request - telephone
• Checking the needs: local authorities and social services
• Co-ordination : Comunità Montana
• Transport: by minibus and cabs
TAXIBUSService’s features
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TAXIBUS Service’s features
• Nr. of renter: 3
• Minimum booking time: 72 hours
• Target of users: everybody
• Minimum nr. of persons per travel: 1 person
• Cost: free
• Priority: healthy needs
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TAXIBUS
Taxibus launched at the beginning of August 2004, the first results are: :
o Total users : 294
of which
o Young people : 9
o Old people: 273
o Other : 12
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TAXIBUS
o Nr. of travel : 99
o Total Km : 1,911
o Average booking time : 2,2 days
o Total travel time : 67h e 20’
o Average travel time: 35’
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• Extend the service to the whole Leader+ area.
• Implement thematic services in the whole Leader+ area.
• Implement “on request” service in the whole Leader+ area.
• Increase the possible bookingmeans: fax, e-mail and a free telephone number.
TAXIBUSFuture developments planned for the project
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• Manage “on request” transport and “thematic” transport together.
• Make the services cheaper.
• Set up institutional working group to show the results of the project to the public transport companies
TAXIBUS Future developments planned for the project