“This train will go into operation by the end of the year and will represent a good link between high-speed and regional technology. There is also a good Wi-Fi setup. We are preparing to take advantage of the installation of the new optical fiber”, he began Luigi Ferraris, the Chief Executive Officer of the FS Group, at the presentation in Berlin of Blues, the new hybrid train, with triple fuel supply (electric, battery and diesel) and produced by Hitachi Rail, which has started trial runs in Sicily.
“This train is technologically very advanced, sustainable and less energy consuming than its predecessors”, continued the top management adding that “it will contribute, together with the deliveries of the new Rock and Pop trains, to making our regional fleet among the youngest in Europe with an average age of seven years”.
At the international debut of the new train there were, among others, Louis Corradi e Andrew Barr, respectively CEO of Trenitalia and Hitachi Rail, who illustrated the characteristics of the Blues, one of the most advanced trains in the world of sustainable railway transport.
Ferraris: "Europe is increasingly a multi-domestic market"
“Europe is increasingly becoming a multi-domestic market, an integrated market between the various nations in the field of transport and infrastructure in which companies will increasingly have to integrate and collaborate with each other. This is a path that must be pursued and strengthened in the freight transport as well as in the passenger sector so as to share and integrate synergies and skills”, continued Ferraris on the sidelines of the meeting with the group's foreign subsidiaries. “We must become system operators and not just rail freight transporters because systems are increasingly integrated. The keyword is integration”, as the CEO of Fs has repeatedly specified. “integration between ports, roads, railways and even airports. So we need to have a structured approach that allows us to intercept the flows of goods in all the various parts of the value chain, in a playing field that is the European one”.
The Trenitalia Blues at InnoTrans 2022
The Blues of Trenitalia, the company in charge of Passenger Pole of the FS Group, arrived in Berlin on the occasion of InnoTrans, the international exhibition for transport technologies where FS is present with the main innovations of the Group led by Ferraris in the context of green mobility of people and goods. The debut of the Blues will take place first in the Italian islands, or in Sicilia and Sardinia then it will be up to Tuscany, Lazio, Calabria and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in 2023. Thanks to its triple fuel system, the Blues will make it possible to reduce fuel consumption by 50% and reduce CO2 emissions compared to current diesel vehicles. A green train, recyclable al 95%.
Technical sheet of the Blues
A sustainable train due to its reduced environmental impact and greater social attention, being the first regional train to be equipped to offer families an area entirely dedicated to children.
The Blues can reach the 160 km / h top speed with an acceleration of 1,10 m/sec2 and accommodate up to 300 people seats in the composition of four carriages.
The train is also equipped with an air conditioning system, with optimization of consumption based on the actual number of passengers transported. There are USB and 220V power sockets and the predisposition for greater and simpler connectivity on board.
The Blues is equipped with modern technologies at the service of people: closed circuit surveillance video system, passenger information system based on a highly visible 24" monitor and integrated systems for counting passengers with dedicated cameras on all doors of access. In addition, the Blues is equipped with the ERTMS system, state-of-the-art European railway language.
With Blues Fs aims to renew and relaunch regional transport
The 110 Blues arriving are part of a large project for the renewal and relaunch of regional transport at a national level supported by the investments of the new business plan of the Group which, with the Polo Passeggeri, aims to promote collective and integrated transport thanks to a offer of sustainable mobility, customized and able to meet the needs of commuters, tourists and those traveling for work, study or leisure. By 2031, the Polo Passeggeri will invest 15 billion for the development of integrated transport, widespread and organized according to people's needs, resulting in significant impacts on national tourism, which, already in the summer of 2022 and compared to 2019, saw a positive trend in passengers on board Trenitalia's trains and connected services.
FS abroad
After Rome, Milan, Bologna and Naples, in Berlin the top management of FS presented the strategies and objectives of the ten-year plan with a particular focus on the international activities of FS.
In fact, the Group matters over 9.100 people at work in foreign subsidiaries and aims to be increasingly a multidomestic company. The road is now well underway, as demonstrated by the path undertaken in France with Trenitalia France, soon in Spain with iryō, in the UK with C2C e Next West Cost, in Germany with Netinera and Tx Logistics, in Greece with Hellenic train, in the Netherlands with Q-Buzz.
