Challenges in rail infrastructure

London 18.04.2016

Challenges in the Airports railway extension programme FNM Group - the main rail transport and mobility group in

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FS Group Lombardy Region

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2 Lombardy Region railway network

RFI

MXP

MILANO

3 () FNM Group

FNM group FS group

319 km (Lombardy) 1.677 km (Lombardy) 55 million pax/year 125 million pax/year

FERROVIENORD LeNORD RFI

50% 50%

TRENORD

4 Ferrovienord (FN) and Nord_ing (NI)

FN is 100% owned by FNM; FN 2014 turnover is 120 M€ and about 900 employees;

FN manages over 300 km network and 120 stations with 800 tr/day: one train every 3 minutes at Milano Cadorna station (at peak times); FN network is integrated with RFI’s, the national operator;

FN provides maintenance of the network; with the support of NI, FN carries out upgrading works and manages all extensions and improvements works.

NI is the in-house engineering company of the Group; NI is responsible for: - the design of railway works; - supporting FN for: job site direction, construction and safety management.

5 Projects and investments

Investments on the network in the last ten years: 700 M €

New Ferrovienord-Lombardy Region Agreement: - 20 new projects - 167 M € of investment

6 Malpensa Airport : T1-T2 railway extension

T2 115 ML € by: -European Commission; -Lombardy Region; -Italian Ministry of Transport; -SEA Milan Airports;

3,5 KM depth of 8 to 10 m

T1

TUNNEL

TRENCH

7 First step of the “Global project”

T2

MALPENSA AIRPORT

T1

8 Design alternatives

RFI alignment Solution 1 Selected Solution MALPENSA T2 AIRPORT

T1

9 A record path

T1 - T2 link years 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 2011 Preliminary Design 2012 Final Design EIA approval Average 2013 6,1 1,3 7,2

2013 Financial closing

2014 Declaration of public interest Average 2009 5,0 1,1 4,9 Land acquisition Tender procedures Preliminary Works Detailed Design T1 T2 3,0 0,5 1,5 2015 Construction

2016 Activation design tendering Italian average implementation works time for infrastructure > 100 M€

10 How was it possible?

EU funds as a catalyst Support by the EU technical structure Support by the Italian Ministry, the Region of Lombardy, the EXPO commissioner, the ENAC, the Superintendence, the Engineer corps, … FN and SEA: a common will and a separated management In-house engineering: NORD_ING and SEA A “realistic” design The local consent The risk in developing activities in parallel … and in particular to anticipate the preliminary works

11 2014 – Preliminary Works

Declaration of Public Interest Delivery of the site 6 march 5 november

Land acquisition

Trees cutting Localization/ removal of wartime bombs Gara e riaggiudicazione Archaeological surveys Environmental survey Lab analysis Geotechnical survey

T2 Parking

MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AGO SEP OCT NOV DEC

8 MONTHS (244 days)

12 Preliminary works

13 14 A new Action

RFI Milano Simplon line

Gallarate

T2 Layout 7

Malpensa Airport

15 T1 – T2 Rail extension

16 16 T1 – T2 Rail extension

17 T1 – T2 Rail extension

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