Develop one integrated and sustainable mobility. This is the objective of the new agreement signed by FS group, with the managing director Luigi Ferraris e Rome airports, with the managing director Marco Troncone, focused on the transition of ADR airports to smart hubs, to strengthen the direct high-speed connection services between Fiumicino - the central airport for the whole country - and Southern Italy as well as the acceleration of the current services with the North of the country (Florence/Bologna/Pisa). The station thus becomes a real extension of the airport terminal.
Marco Troncone, CEO of Aeroporti di Roma, declared that this agreement "tracks and anticipates a new mobility, in the name of sustainability and the multiplication of connectivity opportunities for travellers". And that the enhancement of accessibility to the airport makes Fiumicino more ready for the recovery of tourism and more generally for a future of growth, starting from the next events”, such as the Jubilee 2025 and (perhaps) the Expo 2030 in Rome.
Integrated and sustainable mobility must be the country's goal in order to be competitive on an international level, starting with the most important Italian gateway: Rome Fiumicino airport. These are the words of the president of ENAC, Pierluigi Di Palma. "To meet the needs of one of the sectors most affected by the crisis, Enac has already advanced a first tranche of 300 million euros to the airport management companies, equal to 50% of the requests for compensation made for the damage caused by the health emergency from Covid-19. Of these, around 110 million were allocated to Aeroporti di Roma to encourage the restart", added the president.
FS Group and Rome Airports agreement for integrated mobility
In particular, there is the will to develop integrated products train+plane, through the implementation of commercial agreements with air carriers at Fiumicino "to integrate the reciprocal sales and distribution systems with the possibility of carrying out passenger and baggage check-in operations directly in the main railway stations connected with the Leonardo da Vinci", reads a press release from the company led by Luigi Ferraris, managing director of the FS Italiane Group. The latter added that work is being done rapidly "to build new railway infrastructures, upgrade the existing ones and with them also the services offered". All to make the whole country "more competitive and attractive as it has a sustainable, multimodal, efficient and interconnected transport system, both for people and goods".
In addition to the expansion of the connections and the enhancement of the information flow, in detail, the project includes the infrastructural development of the Fiumicino Airport station, where there are plans to move from the current three tracks to a total of five. A development of the road transport with investments and projects for the road system.
Further improvements and developments of the planned line concern the construction of the FL1 and FL5 connections for the connections via San Pietro and with Civitavecchia, as well as a quadrupling of the Ponte Galeria-Fiumicino Airport section. For the direct connection of the High Speed the project foresees the closure of the Rome railway ring and infrastructural bypasses for the insertion of trains going to Fiumicino without stopping at Roma Termini.
As part of Urban Air Mobility, the agreement includes the design and construction of a vertiport on the parking lot of Rome's Termini Station, also providing for the identification of additional suitable spaces for the future expansion of this network. In this regard, ADR is actively working to launch the first commercial operations between Fiumicino airport and the metropolitan city of Rome in 2024.
