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Florence Hub
The Florence Hub is one of the major railway facilities on the HS/HC Milan-Rome Main line and as such is directly concerned by the infrastructural work linked to the development of the HS/HC project. In addition, this facility represents the major gathering point for central Tuscan area regional lines and constitutes the core of the Metropolitan Regional Railway System, efficiently integrated with the other modes of transport (tramway/road) serving the city.
Thanks to the work on the HS/HC line, for High Speed trains, S. M. Novella station will change from being a head station to a through station, following the building of a new link between the Bologna-Florence HS/HC line and Florence-Rome Direttissima line, crossing under the station itself. This will make it possible to reduce train stop-times in the facility and above it will be possible to specialise traffic flows by main line and by supply, reducing conflicts between the various types of traffic. Furthermore, the building of the HS/HC line will provide a significant recovery of capacity on the existing railway line, to be used to develop regional and metropolitan traffic.
Thanks to the above, the Florence Hub infrastructural and technological scheme, once modernised, will make it possible to adopt an operational model having, as its primary aim, the implementation of a transport system characterised by:
• high intermodal and plurimodal integration and significant expansion of the transport capacity
• high standards of service to customers
To achieve the above aims, aside from the HS work, prioritised in the hub scheme, the following technological and infrastructural upgrade work has been planned, with a view to regenerating the lines linked to the hub and the industrial installations for rolling stock maintenance:
• Florence – Empoli infrastructural upgrade
• Florence – Prato infrastructural upgrade
• building Osmannoro DMS (Dynamic Multifunction Facility)
• work in the Florence Hub linked to the HS
| WORK COMPLETED |
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| Florence – Empoli Infrastructural upgrade | 179 MIO € |
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| Signa-Montelupo track quadruplication | 2005 |
| Florence – Prato infrastructural upgrade | 175 MIO € |
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| track quadruplication | 2003 |
| arranging Rifredi FI installations | 2004 |
| Olmatello junction | 2005 |
| Building DMS di Osmannoro | 131 MIO € |
|---|---|
| completing Osmannoro DMS | 2003 |
| Work in the Florence Hub linked to the HS | 96 MIO € |
|---|---|
| demolition of the existing buildings in the yard area of the C.Marte Station and adaptation of the existing subservices | 2004 |
| road system interventions in observance of the Procedure Agreement signed with the Municipality of Florence (doubling of the road underpass of Viale Belfiore) | 2005 |
| installation of noise Barriers between FI CM and Rovezzano | 2006 |
| interventions in correspondence of Rifredi for road surface adaptation, realisation of an equipped corridor, new SSE, and new road system | 2006 |
| traffic flow inversion Bivio Rovezzano (Rovezzano Crossroad) and new PM realisation | 2008 |
| PRG functional phases modification and modification to the Central Systems of Castello Circulation prior to the entrance of the HC/HS (AV/AC) BO – FI section in the Florence Railway Junction | 2008 |
| Florence - Scandicci tramway | 145 MIO € |
|---|---|
| realization of the first Florence - Scandicci tramway | 2009 |
| WORK IN PROGRESS |
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| Work in the Florence Hub linked to the HS | 96 MIO € |
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| hydraulic adjustment of the Mugnone torrent on the SMN line and outfall into the river Arno | 2010 |
Overall cost of the work is equal to €726m.
