The new HS/HC Verona-Padua line is part of the Mediterranean Corridor of the strategic trans-European transport network (TEN-T core network), which runs from Spain to the Ukrainian border, constituting a privileged route both for traffic between Europe and Asia and, within Europe, for traffic between industrialised regions and eastern developing regions.

The route of the new HS/HC line, which is 76.5 km long in total, crosses the territory of the provinces of Verona, Vicenza and Padua, and has been divided into 3 Functional Lots (Addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding of Oct. 29/30, 2015).

1^st Functional Lot - Verona-Bivio Vicenza

The 1^st Functional Lot 'Verona-Bivio Vicenza' is included where the new HS/HC line grafts onto the existing historic line. Work site construction and land expropriation activities, technological installations and civil works are underway.

TEN-T Core Corridor No. 6

The new Milan-Verona HC line constitutes a section of the Lyon-Turin-Milan-Venice-Trieste-Ljubljana route, which is included in various planning documents at the European level as an element of the East-West axis of the international HS network (Trans-European Trunk Network. TEN T 6 Lyon-Turin-Venice-Trieste project). Moreover, it being a fundamental part of the Turin-Milan-Venice route, the line is defined by the Italian General Transport Plan as a load-bearing element of the Italian railway network (Middle Po Valley transversal connecting route).

The HS/HC Brescia Est-Verona section has a total length of about 47.6 km, including about 2.2 km of interconnection with the Verona Merci section. The line will be built for about 23.3 km in trench/tunnel and to an almost equivalent extent in embankment for about 23.4 km; the building of 4 viaducts for a total length of about 0.9 km is also envisaged.

TEN-T Core Corridor No. 5 "Scandinavian-Mediterranean (Helsinki-La Valletta)"

Part of the strategic works included in the ‘Sblocca Italia’ Decree Law.

It constitutes the realisation and in part the modernisation of the existing rail link between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic backbone line that currently presents some discontinuities, high tortuosity of the route and widespread infrastructural unevenness. The program envisages the activation of the direct link between Naples and Bari and the completion of the doubling of the Caserta-Foggia section for a total development of 121 km of new line, of which about 63 km is underground.

Works Supervision for Doubling of the Naples-Cancello section (Cancello variant)

The Cancello variant constitutes the first segment of the Naples-Bari route and, by inserting itself into the new Napoli Afragola station, embodies the integration of the historic lines with the new High Speed system. With the new variant section, 15.5 km of new double-track line will be built. The construction of a new ACCM (Multi-station Computerized Central Apparatus), with Central Post in Naples, will allow, among other things, the elimination of all level crossings present along the historic section thereby improving the overall road system in the area. The structure, in the first km, runs through a highly urbanised area up to the new Napoli Afragola HS Station with an artificial tunnel and then continues through agricultural areas with viaducts and embankments. The investment will increase traffic capacity and speed of connections, ensuring interconnection and interoperability with the main national and European rail corridors.

Works Supervision for Doubling of the Cancello-Frasso Telesino section

The work involves the speeding up and of the track the doubling in the section between Cancello and Dugenta Frasso station, for a total extension of about 16.5 km. The contract also includes the design and execution of the "NORTH and SOUTH Interconnections on the Rome-Naples Historic Line via Cassino" between the Rome-Naples line and the Cancello-Benevento section, with which it will be possible to provide a direct rail link between Rome and to Bari from both Naples and Rome.

Works Supervision for the Frasso Telesino – Vitulano section - (1^st functional lot Frasso-Telese)

The Frasso-Telese lot, about 11.2 km long, constitutes the first sub-lot of the third segment of the Naples-Bari route. For the first 2.5 km or so, the line runs closely alongside the existing track bed, requiring a phasing of the work to ensure the continuity of rail traffic during the works. Subsequently, the structure is developed as a variant to the historic line, for about 6 km, by means of the construction of viaducts, embankments and trenches and a cut&cover tunnel at the exit from which the line enters the existing Telese facility where two passing loops are planned to be built in addition to the two running lines, and a new Electric Substation (SSE).

Works Supervision for the Frasso Telesino -Vitulano section - (2^nd functional lot Telese-San Lorenzo and 3^rd functional lot San Lorenzo-Vitulano)

The Telese San Lorenzo-Vitulano section is part of the Naples-Bari route forming part of the European TEN-T rail corridors. The Telese-Vitulano lot constitutes the second and third functional lots of the Frasso Telesino-Vitulano section forming part of the Naples-Bari route. Approximately 19 km of new double-track line will be built, substantially varying in route from the historic line, consisting of tunnels, embankments, trenches and viaducts.

Works Supervision for Doubling of the Apice-Orsarasection - (1^st functional lot Apice-Hirpinia)

The Apice-Hirpinia section, 1st functional lot of the Apice-Orsara section, constitutes the central segment of the Apennine crossing of the Naples-Bari route and consists of a completely new route compared to the historical lines, crossing through mountainous territory. With the first lot, 18 km of new double-track line will be built, forming a junction from the new Apice junction to Hirpinia Station, to reconnect later in the direction of Bari through the next lot. The work will be developed, over the entire route, in a scarcely settled agricultural territory featuring steep slopes, crossing wide as well as narrow valleys with steep fronts and heterogeneous geological conditions, alternating tunnels to be built by mechanized excavation and viaducts up to the new Hirpinia Station, located in the plain between Grottaminarda and Ariano Irpino.

Works Supervision for Doubling of the Apice- Orsara section - (2^nd functional lot Hirpinia Orsara)

The Hirpinia-Orsara Functional Lot constitutes the second functional lot of the Apice-Orsara section, has a total development of 28.06 km and a prevailing track speed of 250 km/h. The new double-track line has a layout that runs almost entirely in tunnels; specifically, the section affected by the Hirpinia Tunnel has a total length of about 27 km. The exceptions are two short sections in the open: the one where the Orsara station is located, connected to the tunnel by the viaduct that overlaps the Cervaro stream, and at the PRG adaptation/completion of the new Hirpinia Station.

Works Supervision for Doubling of the Bovino-Orsara section

The lot in question has a total length of 11.80 km, of which 9.87 km are developed in tunnels with a track speed of between 200 and 250 km/h. The railway route begins at point 29+050.29 of the recently activated Cervaro-Bovino section, continues with the new double-track line and, after a short section alongside the existing railway, bends northward to head toward the current stop at Orsara.

Italferr is involved in Planning, Direction of Works, and Coordination of the processes for creating the new Palermo-Catania-Messina route, an integral part of the "Scandinavian-Mediterranean (Helsinki-La Valletta)" Corridor 5 of the Trans European Network (TEN).

This strategic work is called for in the Free-up Italy Legislative Decree, now financed using resources made available via the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). This new route will greatly increase the competitiveness of passenger and freight rail transport, meeting the mobility needs of the Sicilian Region, by reducing travelling times, while improving regularity and frequency. It will also provide interconnection and interoperability within the TEN-T Transeuropean Corridors, as well as links between more densely populated urban centres and the island's inland and coastal areas.

Construction of this route will also provide a great opportunity for relaunching the local economy, with positive spin-offs in terms of industry, tourism, and social and cultural facets, that will come with general improvement of transport services. 

The programme includes works to speed up and upgrade the existing line, in accordance with interoperability requirements laid down by the European Union, and electrified, doubled sections that will allow speeds to be reached of 200 km/h.

Connected with constructing the new route. The significant infrastructural and technological works are already underway and are largely in operation: doubling of the Catania Ognina-Catania Centrale (Catania Junction) section; doubling of the Fiumetorto-Castelbuono section; upgrading of the Palermo Junction); technological upgrading of speeding up of the Messina-Syracuse, Palermo-Messina, and Palermo-Catania main lines.