{"id":4279,"date":"2025-07-07T06:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:27:59","slug":"affordability-index-abbonamenti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/affordability-index-abbonamenti\/","title":{"rendered":"ANNUAL FARES IN LPT: AFFORDABILITY INDEX - ANNUAL FARE PRICE PERCEPTION ACCORDING TO LOCAL PURCHASING POWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The analysis, conducted in 15 Italian cities, compares the cost of an annual public transportation season ticket by taking into account local purchasing power, an individual's ability to purchase goods and services in relation to the cost of living in his or her area of residence. Through the Affordability Index, it shows how the nominal price of the 'season ticket does not always reflect its actual economic impact on citizens.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1810\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ENG-Abbonamenti-nel-TPL-Affordability-Index-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Affordability Index TPL\" class=\"wp-image-4298\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ENG-Abbonamenti-nel-TPL-Affordability-Index-1-scaled.jpg 1810w, https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ENG-Abbonamenti-nel-TPL-Affordability-Index-1-1280x1810.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ENG-Abbonamenti-nel-TPL-Affordability-Index-1-980x1386.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ENG-Abbonamenti-nel-TPL-Affordability-Index-1-480x679.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and 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M16.804,6.116c-0.596,0-1.08,0.484-1.08,1.08 s0.484,1.08,1.08,1.08c0.596,0,1.08-0.484,1.08-1.08S17.401,6.116,16.804,6.116z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#ebebeb;\" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook has-white-color wp-block-social-link\"><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/affordability-index-abbonamenti\/\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 2C6.5 2 2 6.5 2 12c0 5 3.7 9.1 8.4 9.9v-7H7.9V12h2.5V9.8c0-2.5 1.5-3.9 3.8-3.9 1.1 0 2.2.2 2.2.2v2.5h-1.3c-1.2 0-1.6.8-1.6 1.6V12h2.8l-.4 2.9h-2.3v7C18.3 21.1 22 17 22 12c0-5.5-4.5-10-10-10z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Methodology<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"translation-block\">Nominal price of annual fare in different Italian cities (2024 data).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-02d9e380009872d391b319457f0a83b2 translation-block\">Local purchasing power, a measure that expresses how much of goods and services an individual can purchase with his or her income, taking into account the cost of living where he or she lives. Data were obtained from the Numbeo platform and normalized to an Italian scale, placing the national average index at 100, obtained by dividing the New York scale purchasing power by the Italian average of 90.4.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"translation-block\">Affordability Index of travel tickets, obtained by relating the single-ride ticket price to local purchasing power.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">For each city, the percentage deviation between the Affordability Index of travel tickets and the one-way ticket price was also calculated, an indicator of how much the actual cost of the ticket deviates from its apparent value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1622\" height=\"1030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tab-eng-1.png\" alt=\"Affordability Index\" class=\"wp-image-4288\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tab-eng-1.png 1622w, https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tab-eng-1-1280x811.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tab-eng-1-980x621.png 980w, https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tab-eng-1-480x304.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1622px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f7047346aef105bfaa7bf5781e67565c\"><em>Basco&amp;T Consulting elaboration on ACEA data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.numbeo.com\/cost-of-living\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Numbeo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Main Results<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Naples: the most expensive annual fare in relative terms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Annual fare price<\/strong>: \u20ac235,00<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Affordability Index<\/strong>: \u20ac280,22<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Variation:<\/strong>: +19,2%<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the nominal price of the season ticket is among the lowest, Naples has the highest percentage increase relative to local purchasing power, making the annual season ticket the most expensive in proportion to residents' economic ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cities with the most expensive annual fare in absolute value<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"translation-block\">Padua:  nominal price \u20ac418.00 \u2192 actual index \u20ac426.91 (+2.0%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"translation-block\">Florence: nominal price \u20ac378.00 \u2192 actual index \u20ac407.93 (+8.0%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"translation-block\">Treviso: nominal price \u20ac370.00 \u2192 actual index \u20ac411.35 (+11.1%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Padua leads the ranking by nominal cost, but the impact on purchasing power remains small (+2%), compared with larger deviations in cities such as Firenze and Treviso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cities in balance between price and purchasing power<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Rome<\/strong>: nominal price \u20ac250.00 \u2192 effective index \u20ac251.07 (+1%)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trieste<\/strong>: nominal price \u20ac320.00 \u2192 effective index \u20ac320.00 (0%)<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In Rome and Trieste, the annual season ticket \u201cweighs\u201d substantially as much as one would expect when looking at the list price alone, a sign of a balance between transportation fares and local spending capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The most affordable cities in relative terms<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Catania<\/strong>: nominal price \u20ac120.00 \u2192 effective index \u20ac90.61 (-24%)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Genova<\/strong>: nominal price \u20ac295.00 \u2192 actual index \u20ac277.46 (-6%)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Brescia<\/strong>: nominal price \u20ac299.00 \u2192 actual index \u20ac280.93 (-6%)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"translation-block\">In addition, Turin records a savings of 5 percent over the list price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Catania stands out with the most affordable annual fare in relation to purchasing power, followed by Genoa and Brescia, where the impact on the household budget is significantly lower than the nominal cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading translation-block\">Conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The analysis shows that mere comparison of nominal fares does not account for the real economic impact of urban transportation subscriptions. By integrating local purchasing power with the Affordability Index, significant differences emerge: at the same nominal price, cities such as Catania and Genova offer more sustainable season tickets for their citizens, while contexts such as Naples put a strain on family budgets despite seemingly low fares. On the other hand, realities with the highest price tags-such as Padua, Florence, and Treviso-can be more or less burdensome depending on average income and local cost of living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This approach allows us to return a complete picture of the affordability of public transportation service on a territorial basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the previous article, we analyzed the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/titoli-di-viaggio-nel-tpl-affordability-index\/\">Affordability index of tickets in the LPT<\/a>, relating them to the purchasing power of each city surveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fdcfc74e wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-small-font-size has-text-align-left has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/titoli-di-viaggio-nel-tpl-affordability-index\/\" style=\"background-color:#ebebeb\">Previous article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019analisi, condotta su 15 citt\u00e0 italiane, confronta il costo di un abbonamento annuale al trasporto pubblico tenendo conto del potere d\u2019acquisto locale, ovvero la capacit\u00e0 di un individuo di acquistare beni e servizi in relazione al costo della vita nella propria area di residenza. Attraverso l\u2019Affordability Index, emerge come il prezzo nominale dell\u2019abbonamento non rifletta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobility-metrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basco-t.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}