Basic Guidelines   General Data   The East-West Corridor   The North-South Corridor   The opinion of local Authorities and environmental associations (a very good document available only in Italian)

 The implementation of the Italian high speed rail network, consists in a Po valley axis from Turin to Venice, in a central ridge from Milan to Naples and a link between Genoa and Milan, all interlinked with the existing national network.

 The network will have innovative systems for the management of train circulation, with the introduction of advanced and integrated criteria for line, plant and material maintenance.

At the moment the Rome-Florence section already exists (and will be upgraded to the standards of the new sections), the Rome-Naples and the Bologna-Florence sections are under constructionand the Turin Milan section is inthe detailed design phase, like the Milan-Bologna section.

General Data

• Max. Speed = 300 Km/h
• Min. Curve Radius = 6000 meters
• Max. Slope = 0.21 %
• Power supply: 25 KV AC System, with 120 MVA Sub-stations
• Telecommunications: Direct live communications between the operators aboard the train and the management operators
• Signalling: Automatic train control and absence of track-side signals

The East-West Corridor

 The East-West Corridor runs upon the Po valley axis and is composed by three sections:

• Turin-Milan
• Milan-Verona
• Verona-Venice

 At he moment only the Turin-Milan section is in advanced phase of the detailed design: the section will have a length of 127 kilometers, with 18.4 km of viaducts and 3.3 km of tunnels.

The North-South Corridor

 The North-South Corridor is the most advanced in the H-S program and is composed by four sections:

• Milan-Bologna
• Bologna Florence
• Florence-Rome
• Rome-Naples