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Design of raiway infrastructure
Making investments in infrastructure occurs through a series of activities, among which planning railway infrastructure from the preliminary stage through to the final, detailed stages and executive stages plays a central role.
A logical and temporal process governs the complexity and multidisciplinary nature of one of the company’s core businesses: “infrastructure planning”.
The planning structure is subdivided into “Lines”: “System Engineering”, “Civil Engineering”, “Technological Engineering”, “Station Engineering”, coordinated by “Procurement Engineering”.
Italferr has developed numerous railway infrastructure projects in its several decades’ experience: some completed and open to railway operation, others currently being planned or constructed.
Among these is controlling the planning of Italian HS/HC stretches and Milan – Verona – Venice and Milan - Genoa transversal lines. Outstanding in engineering terms is the guyed bridge over the River Po, a world first for a high-speed line.
Also relevant are the preliminary, final-detailed and executive designs for reorganization and upgrading of the following railway hubs: Turin, Milan, Genoa, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bari, Palermo, as well as those set to upgrade various stretches of the conventional route.
Various projects have also been developed for stations and rolling-stock maintenance facilities. Among these the new Bologna HS station (the largest below-ground project in Italy) and the Naples Dynamic Multifunctional System.
Among the main projects completed and in progress in the international field are: the functional project and for all stations on the Puerto Cabello-La Encrucijada railway line in Venezuela, support for Algerian Railways in planning their own high-speed railway system and the project for a railway bridge across the Danube at Novi Sad in Serbia.
