Temporal Policies to Support the Urban Life System. The Desynchronization Matrix

The pandemic emergency has conditioned not only the way of living in the city but also of crossing it, forcing us to rethink its possible better physical and functional organization. For urban planning, it was an extraordinary opportunity to rethink urban spaces and times and the forms of social and economic interaction. In this framework, the urban mobility system represents the fundamental connecting element between the urban functions for organizing and managing the city and its users. The proposed model considers the definition of an urban time matrix (MTU) aimed at regulating urban movement flows in support of the preparation of the time and timetable plan (PTO), identifying, in particular, the most suitable solutions in terms of time to be applied to the most critical functions and time slots, in order to ensure correct physical distancing, as well as adequate use of the various modes of transport. Born as an idea to give an answer to physical distancing by staggering the hours of access to work and services, to be adopted in emergency health phases, it should also be understood in the sense of a better reconciliation of life and work times for families.