(Finance) – The technical and technological competence of the companies of Group FS at the service of the safety from the infrastructure Italian. He also debated this on the occasion of the presentation of the annual report on the activities of 2024 of Ansfisathe National Agency for the Safety of Railways and Road and Motorway Infrastructures.
During the conference entitled Safety evolvesheld at the Istat headquarters in Rome, the role played by the companies of Ferrovie dello Stato in the field of security of Italian transport infrastructures was also central. A role remarked by the intervention during the presentation of the Ansfisa report from Dario Lo BoscoCEO of Italferr which has announced the abbreviation in recent days of a memorandum of understanding signed with Ansfisa.
“Italferr represents the pride of Italian railway engineering and with this understanding we are making our competence available, for the safety of bridges and railway infrastructures – highlighted Lo Bosco in his speech -. We are working a lot in the field of diagnostics predictive To improve the quality and safety of the works and their perception. This also has an important reflection in the field of safety and of the workplace safetytowards the great goal of zero injuries “.
During 2024, Ansfisaas explained in its annual report, has inspected 800 works and more than 3 thousand km of road network. In field railway A thousand trains have been verified and over 18 thousand km of lines have been checked, with 117 inspection activities on 34 railway companies.
Numbers presented during an event that was also an opportunity to deepen the link Between safety and an increasingly relevant sector: that of the historic tourist railways. “A sector whose passengers rose from 6 thousand a few years ago to 100 thousand today,” he found in his intervention Luigi CantamessGeneral manager of Fs and Italian tourist FS and FS.
“The Historical railway lines – continued Cantamessa – insist on internal areas and represent an important tourist flywheel, as has recently remembered a study by Bocconi University according to which for each euro invested in historical trains, three generate in the area. We want to grow, focusing on small and abandoned stations and increasingly also on the safety of this particular type of circulation that must be used by dedicated and specialized personnel. To do this, the collaboration with asphisa “.