The objectives of FS: 100 billion of investments in 10 years and the management of inconveniences for passengers

The 1,200 construction sites open on the railway network – between Ordinary maintenance and PNRR funds – with related inconveniences for users “will not end in a month, they will go on for years “FS is putting a series of actions on the field to try to manage them and reduce their impact on users. After months of controversy for the faults on the net, The Ferrovie dello Stato Group explains the countermeasures he is adopting, also in view of the next summer season: Raisses remodeling, less used suppressed stops on part of the AV races, An information campaign to tell what routes will take place in the coming months.

At the group’s headquarters for two hours the CEO Stefano Antonio Donnarumma alternates slides, comments and also produces a handmade drawing, that of the obsolete electric cabin of Terms sent by tilt on October 2, 2024 From a defect that occurred at the night due also to the presence of a nail that caused delays on almost the whole network.

Investments

The FS group will invest 100 billion euros in the next ten years62% in the railway infrastructure alone: ​​from the tracks, to the stations to the technologies that make trains travel. In the awareness that the works will last a few years and that the network has critical issues related to its growing use.

“Paradoxically, what creates the most discomfort are the construction sites of ordinary maintenance, those that are used for safety, not those of the PNRR which are largely open for the creation of new works, therefore require interruptions only in the moment of connection to the network”, explains the CEO of FS. Then he underlines how the network “was designed in the past for use, he did it very well, now he does another one with other traffic volumes and therefore begins to demonstrate the need for maintenance or repair”. The CEO of FS focused on saturation of the high speed networkwith the knots of Rome and Milan full and that of Naples near its maximum.

“In 2017 there were 306 trains travel – he recalls – in 2024 there were 400, it is a very important increase. We. We manage more than 9 thousand trains per day, with peaks of up to 10 thousand. If sometimes we are talking about 10 trains AV late in one day we always remember that there are 10 or 20 on those total numbers “.

After the inconvenience of the last few months there has been talk of the possible reduction in the number of trains. Donnarumma clarifies. “We don’t want to reduce the number of trains, at most We agree with someone. In recent days we have seen our Duplex traveling on the French railways, technically you can do, instead of making a train travel only two attacks, technically it can be done, we are also organizing in this sense “.

Trenitalia’s high -speed trains offer has been remodeled starting from January to 262 also to face the inconveniences related to the saturation of the network. On the direct line Rome-Florence the variation led to the improvement of the punctuality of 6%, pAssando from 74.4% of the period 7-19 to 80.4% of 7-19 January. The interventions operated saw the suppression of some stops for 30% of trains (often Rome Tiburtina) o to Edit of timetables in 25% cases, other convoys instead have been limited to Rome Termini.
“We will give an advertising campaign to ensure that everyone is informed about the ongoing construction sites and can plan their journey at best possible,” recalls Donnarumma.

CHAPTER INTERNAL APPLICATION TO THE GROUP

Asked about the passage of Gianpiero Strisciuglio da Rfi driving Trenitalia, The CEO of FS clarifies: “Nobody ever told us that they were not going well, it was a normal technical interlocution. Documental additions that we provided quietly were asked and we got a clearance for the transition from RFI to Trenitalia We have now convened the assemblies to proceed with our decisions “.