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The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) for the City of Nocera Inferiore is designed as a strategic and forward-looking instrument. The primary goal is to transform Nocera Inferiore into a “human-scaled city,” where the intrusion of motorized vehicles is reduced to enhance quality of life, safety, and the environment. The Plan focuses on resolving historical problems related to heavy through-traffic in central areas, while simultaneously promoting a mobility system that guarantees accessibility to places, functions, and services, including for the most vulnerable segments of the population.
Consistent with the comprehensive and strategic nature of the SUMP, the document incorporates and integrates short-term interventions through the General Urban Traffic Plan (PGTU).
The simultaneous development of the PGTU and the SUMP has ensured that tactical actions for the immediate management and reorganization of traffic (such as parking regulation, the implementation of Limited Traffic Zones, and the reorganization of the road network) are perfectly aligned with the long-term strategic vision for sustainable mobility. This integrated approach ensures that operational interventions are not merely reactive, but actively and coherently contribute to achieving the sustainability objectives defined by the SUMP.The development of the SUMP and PGTU for Nocera Inferiore centered on a planning methodology based on active participation and a solid knowledge base. A structured process was conducted to involve the local community and key stakeholders.
This unfolded in a first phase of Territorial Listening, using an online questionnaire and an interactive digital mapping platform (Crowdmap). A second phase of Strategic Orienteering utilized thematic design tables to jointly define the Plan’s strategies and actions.
The Plan included an in-depth reconstruction of the Knowledge Base, featuring surveys and data collection on networks, parking, traffic flows, and accident rates.
The SUMP defines a coordinated series of strategies and interventions that converge toward the goals of sustainability and safety.
- Active and Cycling Mobility:
- The structure of the cycling network has been fully defined (dedicated lanes, lanes on sidewalks, and shared routes), leveraging the City’s compact size to encourage cycling mobility.
- Enhancement of pedestrian areas and shared space in the historic center and neighborhoods.
- Local Public Transport (LPT):
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- Reorganization of the service with the introduction of a new high-frequency line for connection with interchange parking facilities and the historic center.
- Creation of new circular lines serving the built-up area.
- Proposal of new sustainable services, such as school bus transport and on-demand bus services for lower-density areas.
- Road Network and Traffic Regulation:
- Interventions on the supra-local road network (e.g., new interchange on the A3) to reduce through-traffic in vital urban centers.
- Rationalization of circulation through the construction of numerous roundabouts at critical intersections.
- Institution of circulation restriction measures such as the Limited Traffic Zone (ZTL) and the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) Ecopass.
- Innovation and Smart Services:
- Definition of strategies for the development of Smart Mobility on the 2030 time horizon.
- Promotion of Sharing Mobility and electric Mobility.
- Incentivizing Mobility Management and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) systems.
The implementation of the Nocera Inferiore SUMP is aimed at an overall improvement of the system, ensuring greater safety for vulnerable users and an estimated reduction in motorized traffic in the built-up area. The plan defines a functional classification of the network consistent with the intended use of the places, laying the groundwork for a dynamic and sustainable management of urban mobility over the next decade.
In partnership with Avventura Urbana