Trains, that’s where the airport arrives: from Olbia to Fiumicino, the new projects (with high speed)

There will be one day – but it will also depend on the investments on the railway network by RFI – in which it will be possible to avoid going through the node of Roma Termini Going directly with the train of theHigh speed towards the airport of Fiumicino which will be enhanced with two additional entrance tracks at the entrance to the airport. Is called Inter-modality between train and plane But you are also thinking about the connections with the Port of Civitavecchiaan important cruise articist hub also by virtue of the entry into the capital of Italiancompetitor of Trenitalia on high speed, of MSC. The will is also to develop information to passengers on flights e on the circulation of trains, within the convoys, in the stations and in the airport terminals. The station thus becomes a real extension of the airport. A offshoot in continuity (We had already written here long ago).

The airports that will be connected

From here to 2035, a ten -year horizon, enhancement of the railway line are expected to connect the Airports of Bergamo, Venice, Genoa, Brindisi, Olbia, Trapani and Perugia (We wrote here by telling how the map of Italy will change in the next ten years). Currently there are 26 airports connected directly with the train or with alternative solutions such as bus or people mover. In Rome there is the Leonardo Express, which directly connects the Roma Termini station to Fiumicino airport by guaranteeing 126 trains every day and hosting up to 350 thousand passengers per month.

The competition between train and plane

There is no and there will be no competition between train and plane except on the high speed for the routes from Turin to Rome, from Milan to Naples and also between Milan and Rome after the Recent extension of travel times, scheduled for the summerto implement the construction sites of the railway network using the money of the PNRR (Here all the major travel times from here to the next few months on high speed, with the peak in August). «We with Italy have active collaborations, for example in Spain. We are not in competition. Not many know that Ferrovie dello Stato is present internationally: in France, Holland, Greece. We record 170 million passengers in Italy and 230 abroad », he explains Stefano Antonio DonnarummaCEO of State Railways. « We manage 9-10 thousand regional trains per day that do not compete with planes. If the competition would concern high speed, « he adds.

For the high speed in Fiumicino, overcome the node of Rome

« In the next 10 years – he underlines again – we will do at least 200 billion of investments, of which 60% in the railway network ». Donnarumma adds that Fiumicino airport is connected to the capital with the « Leonardo Express » and that about 10% of passengers use it. But for the top manager what will be necessary to do in the future is « to build braces to prevent high speed trains (For the moment there are three who arrive in Fiumicino) pass from Termini. In short, they must climb over the Rome node. These are works that could be done within 10 years « .

The investments and sections provided

AtVenice airport Marco Polo The creation of a new railway section of about 8 kilometers is expected which will connect the airport to the Venice-Trieste railway line. In Bergamo, the station will be connected toOrio al Serio Airport with a travel time of only 10 minutes. It is estimated that, with the activation of the connection, the movements made by the train will be over 13 thousand per day, reducing the number of cars in circulation. At Olbia Costa Smeralda airport, a 3.4-kilometer railway connection will be made which will branch off from the Golfo Aranci-Macomer lineallowing you to integrate the airport with the Sardinian railway system. In Sicily, however, the activation of a new stop «Vincenzo Florio Airport»On the Trapani-Birgi line.