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Copyright of Tunel is the property of Ceska Tunelarska Asociace ITA-AITES, z.s and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Tunel is the property of Ceska Tunelarska Asociace ITA-AITES, z.s and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Tunel is the property of Ceska Tunelarska Asociace ITA-AITES, z.s and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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The paper shows why, during the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, European institutions financed the renovation or building of new infrastructures in the Alpine regions that connected Italy to other EEC members. The European Investment Bank (EIB) financed, firstly, the renovation of the railways between Genoa and Modane and between Bolzano/Bozen and Brennero/ Brenner, and secondly, the building of the Bolzano/Bozen-Brennero/Brenner and Aosta-Quincinetto motorways. The European institutions wanted to improve the social and economic cohesion between the EEC countries; the new infrastructure was intended to enable better links to southern Italy (at the time, the most economically ‘backward’ area in the EEC) and to further the development of new factories that had just been established there. At the same time, the new projects improved connections between the Alpine regions and the most developed parts of the EEC, such as Lombardy and Bavaria, as well as to the port of Genoa and southern France. Hence, they enabled both the development of local factories in Alpine regions and the growth of Alpine tourism. In the final analysis, however, the Alpine valleys benefitted more from this investment than southern Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employing the methods of the ‘new transport history’, the article analyses the discourse about the Brenner motorway in Tyrol and South Tyrol during the period of its realization (1959–1974/75). Generally speaking, the construction of the motorway and its impact on processes of communication, exchange and transfer, and on the transnational erosion of transport spaces, was viewed positively and its construction was seen as an urgent economic and transportation necessity. Three thematic strands characterized the mainly homogeneous discourse, albeit with slight differences between Tyrol and South Tyrol: firstly, the association with a connecting ‘European’ infrastructure, which would drive forward the unification of Europe and guarantee a secure economic future; secondly, regional political efforts towards make the Brenner border more permeable, together with concerns about the potentially greater Italianization of South Tyrol resulting from motorway construction; thirdly, discussion about the route of the motorway and the best possible links from economic, traffic, landscaping and aesthetic points of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]