The Italian State Railways group has set up FS Advisory, a London-based company specialising in transport and infrastructure consultancy that will provide advisory services to governments, institutional investors, operators, Infrastructure developers and construction and engineering companies involved in complex mobility projects at the global. The goal is to face the new challenges digitalisation, sustainability and multimodal connectivity in the transport sector via consultants able to understand both the specificities of the public service obligations and the operational and commercial activities.

FS Advisory will support customers, both public and private, in the reorganisation processes of the transport sector, providing digital mobility solutions, including digital mobility platforms ticketing and performance monitoring systems already adopted on a large scale in Europe, as well as specialist expertise transport and infrastructure along the entire value chain. The offer is completed by Shadow and Interim Management services, designed to support governance transitions, governance processes, nationalization and operational changes.

FS Advisory, which will operate as a Independent advice with access to operational capabilities of the FS group, will be led by Ernesto Sicilia, already CEO of Trenitalia UK, where for almost a decade he was responsible for railway activities of the FS group in the United Kingdom.

"We are launching FS Advisory today - explained Stefano Antonio Donnarumma, CEO and general manager of the group FS - why the next decade will be characterized from unprecedented investment in transport infrastructure to global level, but so that this capital can be successfully used, the right regulatory frameworks are required and operating models. FS Advisory is the natural step Next: To make this operational knowledge available to customers around the world who need partners who can address and solve these challenges on a large scale".