Abstract
The logistics system of the Milanese area was thoroughly studied in previous works by the C-log, the Logistics Research Centre of LIUC University. Specifically, a territory named "Milanese Logistics Region" (MLR - including the provinces of Milan, Monza & Brianza, Lodi, Pavia, Como, Varese, Bergamo, Novara, Piacenza) was analysed and mapped along with its logistics nodes, its logistics flows and the players operating within it. For adequately studying the system of its infrastructures, it is though necessary to consider a broader area which extends over the current and provisional infrastructural axes of the MLR, ranging from Novara to Verona, crossing Milan and Brescia. In the past few years, numerous infrastructural developments and projects involved this extended area. Following an exhaustive mapping of its current infrastructural system and an analysis of the mentioned infrastructural developments and projects, in this paper we present a model aimed at assessing the level of accessibility of the considered area for the transport of goods. We aim also at evaluating the increase of the level of accessibility due to the examined infrastructural developments and projects by 2015. Therefore, we provide an economic quantification of the benefits deriving from the infrastructural system improvement, with respect to the increase of the turnover for the logistics companies, due to the enhanced level of accessibility of the infrastructures.