Traghetti in Venice

Introduction

Research Question: "Who owns and who exploits the Venitian traghetti?"

Objectives:

• Analyze who the owners of the ferries are?
  • Are there prevalent families owning most of the businesses? If so who are they and what are their social and political position in the city
  • Is the ownership stable throughout the years? (Comparing with Sommarioni data?) (Comparing with present data?)
  • Are the owners of Traghetti building centers (squero) the same as owners of traghetti businesses?
  • What other businesses Traghetti owners have and are they in some way related to the Traghetti?

• Analyze who exploits the ferries?
  • Is it a family specific business or open to anyone willing to do such work?
  • Do the families exploiting the traghetti stay the same? (Compare with present data / Sommarioni?)

• Spatial analysis
  • Are there specific families owning or exploiting in specific parts of the city? If so, why?
  • Why are traghetti where they are ? (Usually on the main canal, but sometimes not)
  • Which zones are most profitable for traghetti owners (based on rental prices?)

Project Timeline & Milestones

Week	Task	Status
14.10 - 20.10	Define the research question
Autumn Vacation	---------------------
28.10 - 03.11	find and read litterature
04.11 - 10.11	continue reading litterature + extracting and classifing owner data
11.11 - 17.11	Midterm Presentation
18.11 - 24.11
25.11 - 01.12
02.12 - 08.12
09.12 - 15.12
16.12 - 22.12

Methodology

The *function* field in the 1740 Catastici dataset was used to filter out the ferry data. We focused on different kinds of ferries in Venice area, specifically the Italian word *traghetto* and *gondola*.

Keyword in Function column	number	Denotes		168|Ferries, for crossing the river|	???|???| } Results Conclusion Appendix References Zanelli, G. (2011). Gondole e traghetti. In: Matematica e cultura 2011. Matematica e cultura. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1854-9_5