“Mobility Manager” and compliance requirements for private sector companies involved
- Studio Piceci
- September 5, 2021
- Reading time: 6 min
Ministerial Decree No. 179 of May 12, 2021, implementing the provisions of Relaunch Decree No. 34/2020 coordinated with its conversion law No. 77 of July 17, 2020, provided for various measures to support employment and the economy, including measures to encourage sustainable mobility.
Specifically, in order to promote traffic decongestion in urban areas by reducing private individual means of transport, private sector companies and public administrations with individual local units with more than 100 employees located in a regional capital, metropolitan city, provincial capital, or municipality with a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants are required to adopt, by December 31 of each year, a plan for the commuting of their employees aimed at limiting the use of private means of transport.
To this end, they appoint a Mobility Manager, who is responsible for providing ongoing professional support for decision-making, planning, programming, management, and promotion of optimal sustainable mobility solutions.
More specifically, the Mobility Manager promotes, including by collaborating on the adoption of the sustainable mobility plan, the implementation of measures to organize and manage people's mobility demand, with a view to achieving a structural and permanent reduction in the environmental impact of vehicular traffic in urban and metropolitan areas through the implementation of sustainable mobility measures.
The implementation procedures for the provisions of the Relaunch Decree should have been defined by one or more non-regulatory decrees issued by the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea, in agreement with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
We would like to remind you that, as of March 1, 2021, the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea has been replaced by the new Ministry of Ecological Transition, established under the current Draghi government.
In implementation of the above, the newly established Ministry of Ecological Transition, by Ministerial Decree No. 179 of May 12, 2021, issued the implementing procedures for the regulations relating to the new role of Mobility Manager, published in Gazzetta on June 26, 2021.
We had already announced in News June 4, 2021, relating to the Sostegni-bis Decree, the role of Mobility Manager, with regard to the financial allocation planned by the Government.
The aforementioned Ministerial Decree aims to enable a permanent reduction in the environmental impact of private vehicle traffic in urban and metropolitan areas by promoting the implementation of measures to organize and manage people's mobility needs. These measures will reduce the use of private motor vehicles for regular commutes between home and work, thereby helping to ease traffic congestion.
Two professional figures have been identified for this purpose:
The company Mobility Manager, who must be a specialist in managing mobility demand and promoting sustainable mobility in the context of employees' home-work-home journeys;
The Area Mobility Manager, who must be a specialist in supporting the local municipality in which they are appointed, in defining and implementing sustainable mobility policies, as well as liaising with company Mobility Managers.
Consequently, a PSCL (Home-Work Travel Plan) must be drawn up, which is simply a tool for planning the systematic home-work travel of employees of a single local work unit. This plan is mandatory and must be adopted by December 31 of each year for companies with local work units with more than 100 employees that are located:
In a regional capital;