Leader Local Development Plan

1
LeaderLocal Development Plan

• Improving the quality of life a social and
  economic development strategy for the Mountain
  Alto Oltrepo Pavese

2
The LDP strategy

• Local Animation
• Done in cooperation (concerted)
• Social and economic analysis

3
The areas 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

4
The LDP answer

• Creation of a rural integrated transport network

5
Services features

• Innovative Organisation Model
• Efficiency of the service
• Integration with the public transport service
• Flexibility

6
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

7
Targets

• Reducing logistical and social difficulties
• Reducing and changing the trend of the migrant
  flow

8
The services priorities

• Social needs (markets, banks, post office, holy
  cultural and amusing events)
• Welfare needs (hospitals, medical aid)
• Sport activities

9
The territorys 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)

10
Actors

• LAG Alto Oltrepo
• Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia
  (financial partner)
• Pavia Province
• Mountain Community Oltrepo Pavese
• Municipalities
• People

11
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

12
The preliminary statements

• Marginal territory
• Area where the demand is weak
• Possibility to put into effect a system of
  flexible mobility

13
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

14
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

15
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

16
TAXIBUSTesting area

• inhabitants 5500
• surface 170 Km²
• population over 65 37
• density 29 in./Km²
• Spread Index 58

17
TAXIBUS The implementation modalities

• Service assigned by call for proposal
• Coordination of activities
• Communication plan
• Service supply
• Project review during supplying

18
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

19
TAXIBUSServices features

• 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

20
TAXIBUS Services 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

21
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

22
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

23
TAXIBUSFuture developments planned for the
project

• 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.

24
TAXIBUS Future developments planned for the
project

• 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

25
TAXIBUSFurther ideas

• Local development policies supported by public
  and private cooperation
• Mobility as an instrument to live our lands
• Marginal territory but not isolated
• Environmental policies integrated in the local
  development plan