(Finance) – Raise awareness among new generations of compliance with road safety regulations. With this objective, the State Police and Autostrade per l’Italia have brought their educational and cultural project to “Primo Levi” high school and technical institute in Bollate (Metropolitan City of Milan). An interactive journey made up of educational workshops, live events and a contest dedicated to engaging participants until May over 200 institutions selected from the territories crossed by the ASPI network and over 12 thousand girls and boys attending the last three years of secondary school.
The Traffic Police is constantly engaged in proximity initiatives aimed at increasing traffic safety awareness of the danger that occurs on the road due to incorrect or reckless conduct. In fact, prevention activities are the preferred way to combat road accidents which, for young people up to 30 years of age, represent the leading cause of death. Prevention to be implemented not only through widespread control action, but also through changing drivers’ behavior.
For this reason, the Traffic Police participates in awareness projects such as “Don’t close your eyes” carried out with institutional and historical partners such as Autostrade per l’Italia, to promote the culture of legality. “For the Autostrade per l’Italia Group – states the President of Autostrade per l’Italia Elisabetta Oliveri – safety is the priority. We work daily to raise security levels to protect users and those who work on our infrastructures every day. Great progress in this sense has also been made thanks to the support of new technologies, but there is still a long way to go. In fact, we also need a major cultural change in terms of safety, to which we are actively contributing with our campaigns aimed, in particular, at the younger generations, so that they adopt responsible driving behavior to finally reach the goal of zero accidents. A challenging objective which, together with the State Police, we will continue to pursue with great determination.”
In particular, the Lombardy Region, an infrastructural pillar and cluster of innovative and sustainable mobility solutions, boasts one of the most complex motorway networks in the country. The Milan Section II Directorate of Autostrade per l’Italia, in fact, manages a total of 307.1 km of motorway, of which the A4, part of the Mediterranean corridor, the A1, in the interconnection perimeter between Milan and the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor and the A8/A9, part of the Rhine-Alpine corridor.
“Along the routes under our responsibility – states the Director of the Milan section of Autostrade per l’Italia, Luca Beccaccini – 21% of the traffic flowing on the entire Aspi network transits, although only 11% of the km are managed by the Milan Section Directorate. To manage infrastructural complexity we have developed solutions that facilitate user mobility, within a horizon of sustainability and safety. Traveling from Milan to Dalmine, for example, you travel along the 4th Dynamic Lane on the A4, the first stretch of smart road in the country and the only possible solution to allow the widening of the carriageway in one of the busiest urban stretches in Italy. Despite the undoubted innovative capacity of the Autostrade Group, investments in the future do not exclusively concern technological innovations. Training, in fact, remains essential. Especially safety education.”
The project in schools includes a personalized test, to be followed individually in the classroom on a smartphone, which leads each child guided by the teacher to closely follow the topics on road safety. With the support of the professors, young people will be able to deepen their study with workshops and multimedia educational material prepared by ASPI.