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Erika Garusi et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 62 (2024) 233–240 E. Garusi et al./ Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000

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2.2. Road and Highway European and italian transport sector In the road and highway transport sector, a European Agency, aimed to bring together all the function of infrastructure managers, has never been established and the regulation is not structured as in the railway sector. Worth mentioning are the following directives: • Directive 2004/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network, implemented in Italy with Legislative Decree 5 October 2006, No. 264. • Directive (EU) 2019/1936 of the European parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 (amending Directive 2008/96/EC) on road infrastructure safety management implemented in Italy with Legislative Decree 15 Novembre 2021, No. 213. So, in the road and highway transport sector, policies are mainly within the competence of Member States. In Italy, as mentioned above, ANSFISA promote safety and supervise the land trasportation safety, infact the Agency is divided into three Directorates-General which are competent in rail, road and fixed facility transportation systems respectively. The Directorate-General for Road and Highway Infrastructures (DG-ISA) is competent to exercise the functions referred to the Article 12, paragraphs 4, 4-bis, 4-ter and 5, of the Law-Decree No. 109/2018, so-called “Morandi Decree”, converted with amendments by Law no. 130 of 16 November 2018. ANSFISA is subject to the powers of direction and supervision of Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT). 3. Subjects operating in the road and highway italian transport sector The italian road and highway network is more than 840.000 km, managed by about 8.000 Operators, ranging from the local dimension of small municipalities to large highway infrastructure managers (See Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. The road and highway italian transport sector.

In Italy, the 96% of road network is owned and managed by local public institutions (804.364 km). The 3% of the road network (national road network) is managed by ANAS, a company of the FS Group (27.259 km). Only the 1% of the road network is highway, managed by 27 Concessionaries (8.006 km). The road and highway Managers, to ensure the safety and smoothness of traffic, as expected from article 14 of New Road Code (Legislative Decree No 285/1992), shall provide: • The maintenance, management and cleaning of roads, their appurtenances and furnishings, as well as equipment, facilities and services.