The NRP of railways, roads and cycle paths: 1,241 projects worth 51.6 billion
The infrastructure strand sees the big operators as the protagonists: Rfi manages 88% of the funds in the field. Interventions on the road network are more numerous than those on the rail network, but poorer: 732.3 million against 47 billion
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Both the energy efficiency projects financed by the NRP are pulverised and concentrated on private homes and the interventions on infrastructure and transport are few, financially much heavier and in almost all cases managed by a handful of operators. We are talking about just 1,241 measures (0.4% of the overall sample of 306,705 projects), which are however worth 51.59 billion euro, 26.5% of the entire Italian Recovery. With the lion's share handled by investments in the railway network.
59% of the interventions are in the Plan's Mission 2, related to the green revolution, followed by Mission 3 'Infrastructure for sustainable mobility' (33.44% of the total), Mission 5 'Inclusion and cohesion' (6.77% of the total), and finally Mission 1 'Digitisation, innovation, competitiveness, and culture' (0.81% of the total). But if we look at the distribution of funds, Mission 3 is full, with no less than 46.16 billion, or 89.5% of the total allocation for this strand.
Numbers and percentages that are certainly not surprising, just as it is not surprising that the municipalities manage most of the projects - 465 - but for a very small ceiling of resources (3.75 billion). The starring role falls to the country's main contracting station, i.e. Rfi, which is the implementer of 333 projects worth 45.46 billion, 88% of the total funds allocated and is notoriously at the top of the list of the top one hundred grantees of NRW resources. There is no comparison, in the infrastructure sector, with other operators other than public administrations: Anas follows at a great distance with four projects worth 126.12 million.
Taking a detailed snapshot by lining up the data is Ifel, Anci's Institute for Finance and Local Economy, as part of the project developed with Il Sole 24 Ore to turn the spotlight on the 'Pnrr of things,' that is, on the concrete impacts of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan on territories. Going beyond the formal examination of the advances in the various Missions and Components, the analysis aims to reconstruct the actual content of the interventions, extrapolated from the descriptions linked to each unique project code surveyed by the ReGis platform, the telematic 'brain' of the Ministry of the Economy. With the help of generative artificial intelligence, key words are identified in each Cup to understand the concrete effect of the measures financed with EU funds.
Consistent with the picture drawn by the distribution of projects and funds among the various players in the system, road infrastructure accounts for most of the interventions (there are 739 of them, 59.5% of the total of 1,241 investments), but in financial terms they weigh only 732.3 million. Nothing to do with railway infrastructure: there are 434 projects (35%), but they are worth a good 47 billion (including 45 for upgrading lines), 91.2% of the cake. There are 51 urban transport projects worth 3.7 billion: thirty, worth 3.4 billion, are aimed at developing metro and tram lines. Interventions for the development of multimodal and intermodal transport are completely residual: 17 of them for 654,420 Euro.
