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As it is frequently pointed out in the pages of this book, decision-making processes and procedures in spatial planning are becoming more and more complex in present days. The experience of the spatial design of the Mediterranean Corridor in Italy has shown that greater cooperation is needed between decision-makers and inhabitants. The unexpected opposition to the project in the Susa Valley offers the occasion to rethink planning approaches, which need to be transparent from the very beginning where no decisions should be allowed without the involvement of the interested population. Even if one rejects these violent forms of protest, there is no question that better tools of communication and interaction should have been put in place in order to include in the decision-making process, where spatial decisions are produced, also a procedure based on the sharing, to the possible extent, of the existing and sometime conflicting views.
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In computer science and information science, an ontology formally represents knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships among those concepts. It can be used to reason about the entities within that domain and thus to describe the domain. For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science).
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See the many systems of this kind available on the page: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_of_the_Month.
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LP, Province of Turin which has developed a Strategic Spatial Plan for the areas interested by the Lyon-Turin high speed and high capacity (HS/HC) railway line in response to continuing social tensions and is continuously monitoring the situation.
PP2, Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region which acts as regional body for the implementation of national decisions and has since long addressed the issues linked to MTIs and the way they impact locally.
PP3, Veneto Region which is the highest local spatial planning authority in the territories surrounding Venice. It has been distinguishing itself for the incessant engagement in the discussions related to the alternatives of the corridor.
PP5, General Board of Savoie is an active member of the steering committee for the Lyon-Turin HS/HC line. It has promoted the Démarché Grand Chantier, which provided a set of actions supporting the implementation of the French section of the Mediterranean Corridor.
PP7, Municipality of Å empeter-Vrtojba (Slovenia) represents local community instances and has cooperated at cross-border level on transport and connectivity issues.
PP8, Province of Gorizia has cross-border experience in dealing with projects related to MTIs, expressing the administrative link between regional and local needs.
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Transpadana, partner PP6, has made available all the analyses produced so far on the traffic flows in the area of the Mediterranean Corridor.
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This was based on Semantic MediaWiki application (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/).
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Jogan, I., Ferrara, F. (2015). TEKNOSS: A Territorial Knowledge Sharing System in the Poly5 Framework. In: Fabbro, S. (eds) Mega Transport Infrastructure Planning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16396-3_10
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