Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) has announced the completion of the of the installation of the ERTMS railway signalling system (European Rail Transport Management System) on 1,400 kilometres of railway network thus reaching, as scheduled, the medium-term target set out in measure 1.4 of the mission M3C1 of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) for the development of the European transport management system railway. The intervention is financed with 2.5 billion euros from PNRR funds and will affect a total of about 2,800 kilometers of Italian network to be completed by June 2026, in line with the strategic objective of extending the ERTMS technology, already adopted on high-speed lines, to the entire network managed by RFI.

The works, carried out by Hitachi, Alstom, Mermec and Progress Rail, involved a total of about 2 thousand workers including technicians of the FS Italiane group, belonging to the operating companies RFI and Italferr, and contractors. There are 21 lines o sections of lines that have benefited from ERTMS equipment, on 1,489 kilometres in total: Domodossola-Arona to the north, Gallarate-Rho, Merano-Bolzano, Rovigo-Chioggia; at the Centre Florence-Rome Direttissima, Viareggio-Arcola Junction, Grosseto-Civitavecchia, Civitanova Marche-Albacina, Terni-Sulmona, Campoleone-Nettuno, Ciampino-Frascati/Albano, Roccasecca-Avezzano; in the South Rome-Naples HS/HC (ERTMS technological upgrade in operation), Lamezia Terme Centrale-Catanzaro Lido, Catanzaro Lido-Sibari; In Islands Cagliari-Oristano, Oristano-Chilivani, Chilivani-Olbia-Golfo Oranges, Syracuse-Canicattì, Caltanissetta Xirbi-Aragon Caldare-Lercara, Alcamo-Trapani via Castelvetrano.

The activities will continue in the coming months and will affect conventional lines, urban nodes and European corridors throughout the country, including the Direttissima Rome-Florence where the interventions have already been carried out in the Rovezzano-Orvieto section and in the coming months it will proceed with the activation of the technology on the remaining 105 kilometers between Orvieto and Settebagni, including their interconnections.