ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the case of Turin during the golden age of roads and car culture, from the First World War to the oil crisis. Although focused on a local case, the chapter seeks to present the example of Turin as a paradigmatic combination of struggle, compromise, integration, continuity and innovation between roads and rails, showing the contradictions, negotiations, limits and strengths of those transport systems and how they met the requirements of mobility. Turin is a truly interesting choice due to the combination of the local car culture intensified by the presence of Fiat's headquarters and factories and a public transport system based throughout the century on tramways. After a short description of land-based transport policy in the Turin area during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the chapter presents the context of mobility in the 1920s and the various schemes to modernise the city's public transport system.
