Challenges in rail infrastructure
London 18.04.2016
Challenges in the Milan Airports railway extension programme FNM Group - the main rail transport and mobility group in Lombardy
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FS Group Lombardy Region
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2 Lombardy Region railway network
RFI FERROVIENORD
MXP
MILANO
3 (Ferrovie Nord Milano) FNM Group
FNM group FS group
319 km (Lombardy) 1.677 km (Lombardy) 55 million pax/year 125 million pax/year
FERROVIENORD LeNORD TRENITALIA 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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