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sector legislation, regulates the various interests involved in its area in an equidistant position competence so that they can reach a balance. The description of the independent authority model give rise to the following considerations regarding some positive and negative aspects of a possible transformation of ANSFISA into an independent authority. The independent authority is established, as previously mentioned, to carry out almost exclusively the function of regulating the right to safe mobility and protecting the interests involved in the economic sector of land transport. The other control, decision-making and sanctioning functions of the independent authority are closely connected to the regulatory function. On the other hand, the high technical capacity of that independent authority, it is also functional to regulatory activity in the context of system supervision. This regulatory function and the elevated technical and specialist skills typical of the authority model independent appear to be compatible with the function of ANSFISA carries out regulation in the land transport sector. Therefore, as regards the regulatory function, the appeal it would not contribute elements to the model of the independent authority innovative, as ANSFISA already holds regulatory power, which it exercises through the issuing of guidelines, operating instructions and regulations. The possible transformation of ANSFISA into an independent authority it would, moreover, significantly reduce control and the supervision of government power and prevent possible conditioning by the subjects who operate in the sector jurisdiction of that authority. Regarding the sources of financing, for the independent authority, a system of hetero-financing is envisaged, which takes the form of a self-financing mechanism and a transfer of state resources. 7. Conclusions and future developments In the rail transport sector, the EU has established the ERA to bring together all the function of infrastructure managers and has developed common technical and safety standards. Italy implemented these principles end has established national safety authority, responsible for supervising railway safety. In the road and highway transport sector, only after the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa (2018), the national Government established the National Safety Agency for Safety of Railway and Road infrastructures (ANSFISA) which the role of promoting safety and supervising also roads and highways. The Agency exercises its responsibilities over more than 840.000 kilometers of road network managed by about 8.000 Operators. In relation to available resources compared to the extension of the Italian national road, it is vital select significant samples of the infrastructures, in the most efficient way possible without causing major disruption to the new road manager being supervised and consequently to traffic safety. However, in the above-mentioned case, the Italian government entrusted to ANSFISA the verification the safety conditions of the entire highway infrastructures, in accordance with the institutive rule. But the Agency could have planned on the basis of the methodology set out above, the necessary activities in the most efficient way possible so that inspections were carried out in a sensible timeframe, minimizing the impacts on traffic safety. It highlights that to manage the Italian road infrastructure’s safety, the Agency should not have interferences by other administrative or political institutions and transport sector needs an organic legal intervention to reorganize roles in the transport sector, hypothesizing the transformation of the current Agency into the a new independent administrative authority for safety of land transport. References ANSFISA (Italian Agency for Safety of Railways and Road Infrastructures), 2022. Operational instructions on “Guidelines on Risk Classification and Management, Safety Assessment and Monitoring of Existing Bridges”. (in Italian). Bortot, F., Zonta, D., Zandonini, R., 2006. A bridge management strategy based on future reliability and semi - Markov deterioration models, in: Proceedings of the 3rd International ASRANet Colloquium, Glasgow, UK. pp. 10–12. Bencivenga, P., Buratti, G., Cosentino, A., De Matteis, G., Morelli, F., Salvatore, W., Zizi, M., 2022. Evolution of Design Traffic Loads for Italian Road Bridges, in: Pellegrino, C., Faleschini, F., Zanini, M.A., Matos, J.C., Casas, J.R., Strauss, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 1351–1358. https://doi.org/10.1007/978 - 3 - 030 - 91877 - 4_154