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Roads created prestige symbols, large visible successes that would have supported Mussolini's claim of forwarding Italy.

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Clearly it was highly important to Mussolini to establish long-lasting, reliable and famous transport divisions - Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Pirelli are hugely successful and were all founded within Mussolini's regime.

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It was vital that Italy's transport lines were of good quality because the country was so heavily reliant on imports - this can be seen in their steel production when compared with Germany. In 1918, Italy and Germany produced 0.3m tonnes and 15m tonnes of steel - in 1940, they produced 1.2m and 19m.

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Ships and boats also impacted economic modernisation, with large ocean liners being constructed, Rex and Count of Savoy. This allowed jobs to be created within Italy's indsutry, linking both industry and transport together.

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Mussolini had over 5,000km of train line electrified, being one of the first leaders to do so - this provided fast, modern connections from the hub of Milan south to Rome and Naples, and north to Austria and Switzerland. This brought admiration from other foreign powers who believed they were forwarding Italy at a surprising rate.

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Italy =made a big deal of aviation - Italo Balbo led two highly publicised mass flights across the atlantic and Mussolini was a qualified pilot - something heavily referred to. The electrification of the railways and shipbuilding industry were also heavily relied on for an image of prestige.

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Mussolini attends to cut some ribbon for some transport reveal, displaying again his desire to be seen as responsible and to be seen as leading the way in Europe

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The South still struggled with transport links, even when italy was seen at the forefront of some types of transport, most famously the electrified trains based on a hungarian model. This also supports the idea that Mussolini seemingly reinvented other people's methods and braded them as his ownArguably, transport would only be successful when accessable to all through out Italy, with the South being neglected once more by the regime, which was seen as one of the biggest failures of the transport movement.

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Overall transport policy could be called a success however it was a limited success: it was a vast propaganda mine chipped at constantly, leading to foreign admiration and a popularity boost for Mussolini. Italy did have some decent roads built and were genuinely considered to be good at constructing transport links by the rest of Europe. The south still went neglected, and when WW2 loomed it became clear that land transport was totally inadequate to deal with the gaping hole sea transport left behind when that was neutralised as an option to shift resources - an effect amplified by Italy's dependency on imports.

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In January 1933, the regime founded the Institute for the Reconstruction of Industry, to provide financial and management support to industry. Arguably this was a success as the transport system was seen as one of the biggest successes for Italy under Mussolini, which may have been aided by the IRI, however, the larger achievements, such as the Autostrada of the Lakes, began construction before the rule of fascism, in 1921, so much like other parts of Mussolini's achievements, they were started by someone else that he later adapted and took the praise for.
Undoubtedly, the trains provided economic modernisation for Italy, along with other areas of transport that were developing within the Fascist period.

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However, by WW2 coal could no longer be transported by boat, which meant trains would be the only viable alternative. However,  the train system was still not up to scratch to be able to take on the job.
The trains did not run on time, Mussolini made no effort to enable transport changes in wartime.

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Whenever there was some big reveal in transport, Mussolini was there to take the credit. In 1934, with a triumphant fanfare, he opened the direct Florence-Bologna line which included 'the world's longest double-track tunnel'. This was instigated by another government which he failed to allude to, so this could be considered a display of how his popularity rather than the need to develop and modernise was Mussolini's primary concern.

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Fiat produced 80% of Italian cars, and expanded into further fields such as machiney, smelting and cement. Arguably, it was other business' success and motivation that pushed transport forward, and not necessarily strong government intervention and infrastructure. Privatisation was conducted within Italy by De Stefani.