Transport in Rome
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Rome has an extensive internal transport system and is one of the most important road, rail and air hubs in Italy.
Rome banned diesel vehicles from its roads for the first time on Tuesday 14 January 2020. The local transport authority said the order would affect around one million vehicles.[1]
Urban transport
Rome has an urban transport network which consists of buses, trams, rapid transit lines, light rail lines and suburban railways.
Roma servizi per la Mobilità is the municipally-owned public transport agency which is in charge of programming bus routes and providing real-time information and services to the user.[2]
Atac (formerly an acronym for Azienda del Trasporto Autoferrotranviario del Comune di Roma, "Company for rail and road transport of the city of Rome") is the municipally-owned public transport company which operates most of the public transport lines in the city.[3]
Roma TPL is a private company which operates a minority of bus lines.
Rome Metro
The Rome Metro is the
Trams and commuter rail
Rome's overground rail transport comprises the
Buses
Rome has a comprehensive bus network, including three trolleybus routes (with additional trolleybus lines under construction). The Metrebus integrated fare system allows holders of tickets and integrated passes to travel on all companies' vehicles, within the validity time of the ticket purchased.[4]
Classification of bus routes
Bus routes in Rome are identified by a symbol and a small letter:
- U (Urban bus routes) - regular bus routes around Rome, calling at all stops and operating mostly between 5 am and 12 am. These routes include also one summer seasonal route (062). They are identified by a U letter and a blue background on their number reported on bus stops.
- X (Express Bus Routes) - they are 12 bus routes (20, 30, 40, 50, 51, 60, 80, 90, 120F, 150F, 180F and 190F). These routes connect the centre of Rome with some far away suburbs and call at lesser stops than Urban routes and tend to have a higher frequency. On bus stops, they can be identified with a green colour and an X letter.
- E (Exact bus routes) - they are a bunch of bus routes with a reduced timetable and operating mainly through peripheral areas of Rome. The name exact is due to their timetables being strictly adhered to. These routes also include those serving local cemeteries. On bus stops, they are identified with a brown colour and an E letter.
Route numberings and service areas
Most bus routes in Rome have three digits. The route numberings, in such cases, depends from the division in Rome in 10 zones (0 to 9). For instance, in case of route 916 it starts from zone 9 (Trionfale-Cornelia stop) and terminates at Rome Termini station on zone 1 (city centre).
The only exceptions to this system are routes 446 (connecting zones 9 and 2) and route 201 (unchanged since 1934). Both of which had been established on a previous numbering system not adjourned.
Other features which can be seen are:
Letters:
- C××× (the letter C stands for cemetery, and as such it identifies those routes connecting residential areas with local cemeteries)
- F (any bus route with the letter F after a numbering operates only on Sundays and public holidays)
- H (route H is the only route in the entire network which number consists only in a letter)
- N (any bus route with the letter N operates during nights only)
In other cases, there are routes whose first digit is 0. It stands for those peripheral routes operating outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare at all times.
Interurban bus transport
Various coach operators can be found in Rome, such as
Cotral is the main interurban bus operator in the Lazio region, connecting all the municipalities except from the insular Ponza and Ventotene. Cotral's main departure points in Rome are the bus stations at Tiburtina, Anagnina (Rome Metro), and Ponte Mammolo (Rome Metro), connecting the Italian capital to various destinations in the region.
Railways
Rome is one of the major hubs of Italian railway network, along with
Roads
Rome is served by an extensive motorway network. The most important motorway serving the city is the
Traffic congestion in Rome is notorious.
Motor Traffic Limited Zone (ZTL)
Chronic congestion caused by cars led to the partial banning of motor traffic from the central part of the city during workdays, from 6 am to 6 pm.[8] This area is called Zona a Traffico Limitato (ZTL), motor traffic limited zone.[9]
Heavy traffic due to night-life crowds during weekends led in recent years to the creation of other ZTLs in the Trastevere, San Lorenzo, Testaccio and Monti districts during the night.
Airports
Rome is served by three civil
The third airport serving the city, the Rome Urbe Airport, is a small, low-traffic airport located about 6 km (3.7 mi) north of the city centre, which handles most helicopter and private flights.
A fourth airport in the eastern part of the city, the
Statistics
The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Rome, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 79 min. 22% of public transit riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 20 min, while 39% of riders wait for over 20 minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 6.8 km, while 12% travel for over 12 km in a single direction.[11][12]
See also
References
- ^ [Rome bans all diesel cars in battle to curb pollution] Reuters January 14, 2020
- ^ Roma servizi per la Mobilità mission
- ^ Atac mission
- ^ "Tickets and Passes". ATAC SpA. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
- ^ "Eurostar Italia Alta Velocità". Archived from the original on 2006-05-06. Retrieved 2011-12-15. - Entry on Roma Tiburtina station on the official website of the Italian high-speed rail service (in Italian)
- ^ 50 Years in a Cab: A Long, Winding Trip for One Driver, and His City By Elisabetta Povoledo 13 April 2016 New York Times
- ^ "Rapporto sulla qualità della mobilità nelle province italiane" (PDF). Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI). p. 20. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Roma (Rome) - AR".
- ^ "Rome ZTL Zone Maps & Hours". Auto Europe. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- Ministero della Difesa
- ^ "Rome Public Transportation Statistics". Global Public Transit Index by Moovit. Retrieved June 19, 2017. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- ^ Angela Corrias. “Rome Public Transport: What You Should Know.” Rome Actually, 30 May. 2022, https://www.romeactually.com/complete-guide-rome-public-transport/
External links
Media related to Transport in Rome at Wikimedia Commons
- Official ATAC website—(in Italian)