La gestione della rete autostradale: quale ruolo per lo Stato?

Starting from a general overview of the motorway infrastructures, the contribution examines the management solutions for the highway system. The legal instrument that emerges from this analysis is the concession. In fact, the public administration has the choice to outsourcing or insourcing the management of the motorway network. In the first case, public tendering is established as the general rule. However, its implementation is at the crossroads between strategic profiles and critical issues. In the second case, the in-house solution too presents some problematic nodes that risk relegating it to a residual hypothesis. In this panorama, a fundamental role is played by the State, whose presence appears to be crucial for the management of the motorway network.