the train of the future will go to Milan. It is expected by the end of May, when the city will converge the most important operators of railways around the world. But while the capital is preparing for the largest global showcase for the technologies that will accompany our rail journeys in 2050, the entire Lombardy looks the chessboard on which the Italian railway future intends to deploy its full potential. It is in this region, in short, which can be shown that revolution of mobility dreamed, hoped, evoked, tracked, from black and white times of exotic Sundays of austerity to those far less playful of fine particles and traffic blocks. the appointment will make for five days Milan world capital of the railways has a nearly unpronounceable name: it is called Wcrr and insiders tend to pronounce it in English because it is short for World congress on research railways. sum universal Congress on applied research in the railway field. From 29 May to 2 June, in fact, the convention center Polar Star of the Fair (Rho), managers of private companies, public companies of directors, technicians, scientists, university professors from all latitudes will be showcasing their innovations and embryos of those that have yet to be fully developed. The title of this eleventh edition, in fact, is eloquent: “Research and innovation by 2050.”
It looks away, in fact. And the organizers (the State Railways and Trenitalia) are convinced that the Milan meeting will be a decisive step for the future of rail transport, as they seem to promise the 936 dossiers on experimentation and research programs already deposited to the secretary of Wcrr . Many more than four years ago in France. will be represented, in all, 38 countries, including – for the first time – also Russia and Japan. “The aim is to promote research, innovation and technological development – explain the Fs – giving impetus to worldwide cooperation and sharing of the wealth of knowledge gained in various branches of industry, for example rolling stock, infrastructure, technology, logistics , environmental sustainability, commercial aspects. ” And between sessions of Congress, they are scheduled technical visits to installations of the FS Group and the rail companies. Starting from the center of the airport’s current Maintenance Martesana, where they are checked regularly and the ETR 500 and 1000, that is, the jewels of the high rate of Fs. “I’d love that Wcrr could be an opportunity wide open to show what we are today in the railway landscape and what we can do for the future,” he says about it Renato Mazzoncini, CEO of the FS Group.
But besides the international horizon there is also a local future that, from the point of view of transport by rail, is yet to be explored. While working to win the construction of two high-speed lines in Iran, including Milan and Lombardy are the focus of the management of the railways. “The mobility market is growing,” emphasizes Mazzoncini, inevitable that the most populous region and more dynamic either – it’s appropriate to say – even the locomotive of this process. The number one of Fs, which is Brescia, knows the reality Lombard and is very optimistic about the future “in a population of ten million people – he explains – is not normal that rail commuters are only 350,000. And our goal is not only to increase that number but to shift to rail 30 or 40 percent of mobility in this region. “
in order to achieve these results, Mazzoncini is convinced that they can not help but increasingly close relations with the taxi networks, with the ‘ATM and all the public transport actors: “the evolution of public mobility is still growing and there is a willingness to make a system with all companies, because our only” enemy “is the private cars. It is important – he adds – not remain prisoners of their own assets: why, for example, Hilton took decades to put together the same number of rooms that Airbnb has achieved in four years of life. ” The chief executive of Fs also reaffirms its intention to take control of Trenord and explains that negotiations with regional president Roberto Maroni to get to the majority of the shares are being, then it insists on the concept of metropolitan city: “Where there works, there is no development. The example to follow is London. ” But on this track, the train from Milan is a bit ‘late.
April 26, 2016 | 10:39
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