(Finance) – The project StationLAND from Italian Railway Network won first place in the awards of the ESRI User Conference of San Diego, California. After the recognition of the UIC (Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) received in Berlin as part of the International Sustainable Railway Awards, the location intelligence platform created by the RFI Station Management once again takes the podium and receives the prestigious award established by the Environmental System Research Institute (ESRI), an American multinational world leader in geospatial solutions, geolocation and geographic information systems.
“This success rewards the vision and aggregation capacity of a talented multidisciplinary team around a project with ambitious objectives, challenging complexity. StationLAND will continue to grow, enriching itself with further information in near and real time, evolving towards representation in 3D, interfacing with IoT systems and integrating company management systems, and will multiply its value within the FS Group – at the forefront of the global challenges of the EU Next Generation – continuing to build a more effective dialogue and collaboration with all stakeholders, primarily central institutions and local administrations “he declared Will be Venturoni Head of the RFI Station Management.
As we read on the FS News portal, the prestigious award in the category Outstanding Innovations in Infrastructure and Public Mobility was awarded at the end of an accurate course of assessment which saw the ESRI experts recognize in StationLAND the profile of an unprecedented application in the transport sector, for the scale of application and for the strategic value that lies in the logic of integration between the railway system and the territories, both in an intermodal key and a reinterpretation of the role of stations in the urban environment.
StationLAND is one platform from location intelligence based on GIS (Geographic Information systems) technology developed to identify, understand and interpret the relationships between stations and the territory that hosts them, with the main objective of enhancing accessibility to rail transport and its connections with other networks mobility. Through this innovative analysis tool, RFI can manage large amounts of data and information that have allowed it to make a significant leap forward in the planning, design and management of the over 2,200 stations of the Italian railway network. Thanks to the numerous partnerships established by RFI with institutions, local authorities and mobility operators, StationLAND allows the creation of advanced analyzes in the field of multimodal systems. An example is the project promoted by the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility (MIMS) for the construction of cycle paths that will connect the railway stations to the main Italian universities. The project, born also thanks to the analyzes carried out through the RFI platform, was awarded at the ESRI 2022 Conference.