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?)

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

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