(Finance) – One increasingly sustainable and interconnected mobility: Thanks to the development of new infrastructures and collaboration with the main airlines, the FS group aims to make the train the privileged means to reach airports, reducing the use of the car and breaking down CO2 emissions.
Currently, in Italy, they are 26 The airports already connected to the railway network or through intermodal solutions which include buses, Airlink and People Mover. The goal of the FS group is to transform the trip into an integrated “door-to-door” experience, guaranteeing passengers integrated and intermodal travel solutions. “Looking at the numbers I do not see the competition between trains and planes. FS is a company that represents the country with 97 thousand employees, this year 17 billion of investments have been made and we manage about 10 thousand trains per day, for most regional,” he said The CEO of the FS Group Stefano Antonio DonarummA during the Fit Conference – CISL “Air and rail transport: strategies for an integrated and competitive system”.
Among the excellences already active is the Leonardo Express, a service that connects the Roma Termini railway station to Fiumicino airport with 126 trains per day and a total of 350 thousand travelers per month. There are also many projects on site. In Venice Marco Polo is expected to create a new railway of about 8 km that will connect the airport to the Venice-Trieste railway line, improving the connections between the airport and the north-east. Further projects are also underway to encourage iron-aircraft integration to connect the airports of Bergamo, Olbia, Brindisi and Trapani to the railway infrastructure.
In Bergamo, the station will be connected to Orio al Serio airport with a travel time of only 10 minutes. It is estimated that, with the activation of the connection, the movements made by the train will be over 13 thousand per day, reducing the number of cars in circulation.
At Olbia Costa Smeralda airport, a 3.4 km railway connection will be created which will branch off from the Golfo Aranci-Macomer line, allowing you to integrate the airport with the Sardinian railway system. In Sicily, however, the activation of a new “Vincenzo Florio Airport” stop on the Trapani-Birgi line is expected.
There station will become a real extension of the airport terminal And to make intermodality train-aircraft even more accessible and efficient, the FS group has launched collaborations with the main actors in the air sector. Among these, the Memorandum of Understanding with Ita Airways and Lufthansa and the partnership between Iryo and Ita Airways.
In this scenario, intermodality becomes the beating heart of a European transport system that allows you to look more and more constructively to Europe which, for the FS group, does not represent only a market, but a strategic opportunity for an increasingly integrated, intermodal and sustainable mobility future.