Vehicles and men were deployed by the Ministry of the Interior to ensure the safety of travelers during departures and returns, with traffic monitored 24 hours a day.
Traffic police and carabinieri employed 677.518 patrols. The flight departments of the state police carried out 48 missions with 13 aircraft, for a total of 71 hours of flight, while the carabinieri weapon ensured traffic surveillance also making use of the helicopter units with 68 missions for 57 flight hours.
The firefighters and the state forestry corps are also very committed to fighting forest fires, using road vehicles, helicopters and airplanes, interfacing with the civil protection department.
The motorway concession companies have activated the usual procedures to guarantee traffic safety and fluidity to users in transit. Men, vehicles and technologies were made available, with an information system active 24 hours a day, with 35 radio rooms, over 5.300 cameras, 2.600 variable message panels, 7.200 SOS columns for emergency calls, 2.000 traffic workers and 6.000 in collection sector.
ANAS instead employed 2.500 resources including operating personnel, infomobility and technicians, assisted by 1.070 vehicles, 1.800 fixed or mobile cameras, 300 variable message panels, and in addition, to facilitate motorists, construction sites were reduced to a minimum of the works, with the exception of those that cannot be removed.
The railway police increased the services with over 47.00 patrols in the station, 12.000 on board the train, escorting 26.285 railway trains. In addition, 3.684 anti-pocketing services in civilian clothes have been set up to combat thefts against travelers. In this regard, an advertising campaign was launched in anticipation of the summer exodus "Be careful! Make a difference", a collaboration between the railway police and the state railways.
These were the numbers of the 2014 summer exodus that emerged on Friday 5 September, during the press conference at the public security department of the interior ministry.
In the presence of the Minister of the Interior Angelino Alfano and the Chief of Police, Prefect Alessandro Pansa, the leading experts in road safety and traffic intervened: the central director of the traffic police, railway, communications and special departments of the police of Roberto Sgalla, coordinator of the press conference; the director of the traffic police service and president of viability Italy Giuseppe Bisogno; the general director for road safety of the ministry of infrastructure and transport and vice president of Viabilità Italia Sergio Dondolini; the minister of infrastructures and transport Maurizio Lupi, the general manager of AISCAT Massimo Schintu, and the president of ANAS Pietro Ciucci.
Monica Palermo
