(Finance) – Over the next weekend, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 February, and on the weekends of 9-10 March and 23-24 March, there will be director AV traffic changes of trains with cancellations and extensions of travel times for technological upgrading works on the line “Very direct” Rome-Florence.
Italian Railway Networkleader of the Infrastructure Hub of the FS Italiane Group, will in fact carry out some activity preparatory to complete the installation of the system ERTMS, the most advanced system for supervising and controlling train spacing on the Rome-Florence Direct Route, a project also financed by PNRR funds and which already sees this technology active between Florence Rovezzano and Orvieto. By the end of 2024 the ERTMS will also be activated in the Orvieto-Settebagni section (88 kilometres). The activities, specifically, will consist of the installation of GSM-R radio antennas, cable laying, construction of technological systems and interventions in the tunnels, maintenance work on the railway site.
The renewal of technologies with the equipment of the ERTMS system it will guarantee greater reliability of the infrastructure, resulting in an improvement in the regularity of circulation and the quality of the service. In addition to higher performance, ERTMS also allows savings on management and maintenance costs compared to traditional signaling systems. RFI’s objective is to install the technology on all 16,800 kilometers of the network by 2036. To allow the works it will be necessary to interrupt traffic between Orte And Seven bathrooms and therefore divert the high-speed trains onto the conventional line.
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