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Table 4: SWOT Analysis at urban level. (Authors: M. Positano & G. Sorino)
Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

1. Taranto’s City
Council in cooperation
with A.M.A.T. – S.p.A.
and C.T.P. (local
public transport)
has provided a fast
line that goes from
Parco Cimino to via
Margherita and vice
versa
2. The A.M.A.T – S.p.A.
in July 2008 has
presented a project
on sustainable
mobility (still not
approved) that
involves:
• creation of
exchange parking
areas in Cimino
between private and
public vehicles and a
landing place for the
waterway service;
• creation of an
integrated area of
interchange and
intermodality in
Croce locality (near the
active railway station);
• waterway
service in support
of the tourism
development
(itinerary “Mar Piccolo”,
itinerary “Isole
Cheradi”, itinerary
“Spiagge”, itinerary
“mari di Taranto”).

1. The presence of a single active
railway station, external to the
core centre of the town. Its position
seems to have been conceived
in function of the industrial and
commercial activities, rather than
public transport
2. The ports exploit especially the
industrial and commercial potentials
of Taranto’s area. At present there
are only two routes that partly
involve the internal basins (only
in the first inlet of mar Piccolo). The
latter are exclusively used for tourism
purposes to reach S.Pietro island.
3. The railway network only
covers great distances and serves
principally the town harbour.
4. The only connections
between Paolo VI district and
the Taranto’s town centre are
road transport (cars and busses),
thr