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High Speed - High Capacity
The Italian High Speed/High Capacity railway system runs 1000 km through a large part of the national territory. The HS/HC network connects Turin to Salerno, passing through Milan and shall be further extended by the two Genoa-Milan and Milan-Trieste cross country routes.
The new lines were designed to allow mixed traffic (hence the dual HS/HC wording), i.e. passenger and freight trains, travelling long and medium distances and closely integrated with the existing railway network by means of several interconnections and considering connection with the European HS network.
The design and functional characteristics of the new fast lines which have adopted the level 2 ERTMS/ETCS (European Railway Traffic Management System/European Train Control System), have been defined so that almost double the amount of trains can circulate than before and under the highest conditions of safety. The pre-existent lines shall thus be dedicated to local and regional passenger and freight traffic with a consequent increase in the overall transport offer and improved mobility in the urban nodes.
Thanks to the High Speed/High Capacity project, in fact, the large railway Nodes of Turin, Milan, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples are being enhanced and reorganised. Urban penetration of the new lines also provides the opportunity to improve the transport systems of the main metropolitan networks.
With the activation of the new Bologna-Florence and Novara-Milan fast routes in December 2009, joining those of Rome-Naples, Milan -Bologna and Turin-Novara, the objective to “unite Italy” has been accomplished.
Italferr is a Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane [Italian state railways group] engineering company of which ensures realisation of infrastructural and technological investments in the railway sector. In such context Italferr guarantees technical and managerial supervision of the entire investment implementation process and manages design and/or control of the design developed by general contractors during the various phases as well as the process of authorisation at local and national Authorities and Institutions, the fulfilment of calls for tender, management of the realisation contracts, works management and control of realisation, assistance during inspections and technical verification of the plants until the infrastructures are activated, as well as upon consignment of the latter to the end operator.
Specifically regarding its High Surveillance function, the monitored activities are:
Project Management;
endorsement of constructive design documents before building starts;
control of construction activities at the building site;
verification and evaluation of works progress and related economic amounts;
control of design costs and times for design and construction activities;
verification of completion and legitimacy of the authoritative and compulsory procedures concerning the works under construction;
verification of the correct completion of acts regulating relations with Public Authorities and public service operators (water, electricity, gas, etc.);
examination and assessment of all the technical-design related and economic aspects as well as schedules with regard to the variants under design and construction, of technical modifications and the reserves proposed by the general contractor on the whole;
verification of the activities for homologating the technological plants and materials constituting the railway tracks.
The new lines were designed to allow mixed traffic (hence the dual HS/HC wording), i.e. passenger and freight trains, travelling long and medium distances and closely integrated with the existing railway network by means of several interconnections and considering connection with the European HS network.
The design and functional characteristics of the new fast lines which have adopted the level 2 ERTMS/ETCS (European Railway Traffic Management System/European Train Control System), have been defined so that almost double the amount of trains can circulate than before and under the highest conditions of safety. The pre-existent lines shall thus be dedicated to local and regional passenger and freight traffic with a consequent increase in the overall transport offer and improved mobility in the urban nodes.
Thanks to the High Speed/High Capacity project, in fact, the large railway Nodes of Turin, Milan, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples are being enhanced and reorganised. Urban penetration of the new lines also provides the opportunity to improve the transport systems of the main metropolitan networks.
With the activation of the new Bologna-Florence and Novara-Milan fast routes in December 2009, joining those of Rome-Naples, Milan -Bologna and Turin-Novara, the objective to “unite Italy” has been accomplished.
Italferr is a Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane [Italian state railways group] engineering company of which ensures realisation of infrastructural and technological investments in the railway sector. In such context Italferr guarantees technical and managerial supervision of the entire investment implementation process and manages design and/or control of the design developed by general contractors during the various phases as well as the process of authorisation at local and national Authorities and Institutions, the fulfilment of calls for tender, management of the realisation contracts, works management and control of realisation, assistance during inspections and technical verification of the plants until the infrastructures are activated, as well as upon consignment of the latter to the end operator.
Specifically regarding its High Surveillance function, the monitored activities are:
Project Management;
endorsement of constructive design documents before building starts;
control of construction activities at the building site;
verification and evaluation of works progress and related economic amounts;
control of design costs and times for design and construction activities;
verification of completion and legitimacy of the authoritative and compulsory procedures concerning the works under construction;
verification of the correct completion of acts regulating relations with Public Authorities and public service operators (water, electricity, gas, etc.);
examination and assessment of all the technical-design related and economic aspects as well as schedules with regard to the variants under design and construction, of technical modifications and the reserves proposed by the general contractor on the whole;
verification of the activities for homologating the technological plants and materials constituting the railway tracks.
