(Finance) – TheUIC (Union Internationale des Chemins de fer)A worldwide association that brings together all operators in the railway sector, has awarded in Berlin Vera Fiorani, Managing Director of the Italian Railway Networkfor the project Sustainability on the goranked first in the category Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Rail. A recognition that is assigned by the International Sustainable Railway Awards (ISRA) to the personality who stands out for his innovative effort and the effectiveness of impact in terms of sustainability in rail transport. Also on the top step is StationLAND, the station location intelligence platform for the “Best multimodal partnership”.
Further prestigious awards in the field of sustainability for RFI (FS Italiane Group), the national infrastructure manager and the country’s main contracting authority involved in the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
With the Sustainability on the go project, strongly supported by CEO Vera Fiorani herself, RFI has launched a governance and change management program to accelerate the development and integration of sustainability methodologies and best practices in all business processes, to arrive in the shortest possible time at a real internalization of sustainability in all activities, also involving the entire supply chain and other stakeholders.
Carried out through a participatory process, which involved all the directors gathered in the Sustainability Committee (CdS), the project was born from the awareness that the large size, the numerous areas of activity and the fundamental role in the implementation of the PNRR allow RFI to to be able to make a difference in the green transition of the entire country, developing a new way of making railways based on full evolution of management processes from an ESG perspective and acting as a multiplier of good practices towards all stakeholders involved. An impressive and accelerated construction and management effort, marked in every phase by respect for the principles of sustainability.
“This recognition testifies to the great work that RFI is putting into place to achieve the sustainable development goals through concrete actions – ha affirmed the CEO of RFI Vera Fiorani – What we have undertaken in the last year is a long-term path to ensure that the sustainability of our infrastructures is not just a characteristic connected to the mode of transport, but a best-practice to be implemented in all phases of the construction process , to create shared value for the territories and stakeholders. The award represents a further step on our path, to design increasingly sustainable and resilient infrastructures, while increasing grid performance standards and energy consumption efficiency “.
The Sustainability on the go project is divided into two phases: in the first they were identified the business processes to be extended and systematized from an ESG point of view, through the creation of a real strategic action map for the sustainable transition of RFI, consisting of 10 guidelines (LAS) referring to 33 areas of action; in the second they were plan the initiativesunder construction, capable of systematize and integrate the new approach into business processeswith the definition of 45 construction sites that have become structurally part of the RFI Business Plan “0” “-” 031.
StationLANDthe location intelligence platform of the stations won the prize “Best multimodal partnership“. The recognition rewards the commitment to the vision and the brilliant creation of a functional tool for elaborating advanced analyzes of the relationships that exist between the railway stations and the territories that host them, providing valuable inputs to guide development, modernization and improvement initiatives. of the services offered. StationLAND contains hundreds of information layers that allow a detailed digital representation of the national territory and which constitute one of the largest and most updated georeferenced databases available today in Italy. A significant part of this data was obtained through partnerships with institutions, Territorial and Local Bodies, Associations and operators in the shared belief that multimodality is – by definition – reachable only through collaboration between the different subjects who – for various reasons – play an important role in the planning and management of infrastructures and mobility.