Profilo storico della disciplina del trasporto pubblico locale

The essay offers a progressive outline of public, regional and local transport rules, from the first administrative decentralization to the actual attempts at a free competition in the examined services market. The regulation of the scheduled carriage, open to a wide range of customers and based on preordained routes and fares, is quite different from the one of on demand services, namely taxi or car-hire with driver: the first one strictly regulated in order to the choice of the service holder; the others substantially open to anyone holding stated qualifications of honourableness and professional and financial titles. Particular attention is paied to the examen of the swinging trends of the national legislation related to the choice of the public, local and scheduled carriage services owner, in the option between protectionist measures of the actual trusts and a wide, free trade in the examined sector.