Design of High Speed / High Capacity Napoli-Bari: Functional Lot II: Hirpinia – Orsara
Client
RFI S.p.A.
Location
Italy
Status
In progress
Services
Executive design
Technical Information
Executive design of civil works for Naples-Bari High Speed/ High Capacity railway – Doubling of Hirpinia-Orsara Section. Functional Lot II: Hirpinia – Orsara, beetwen chainage 40+889.773 & 68+953.375
The Naples-Bari high-speed railway will be a strategic axis in the development of sustainable mobility in southern Italy. It will reduce by about half the time it takes to travel between Naples and Bari to just two hours. The contract for the Hirpinia - Orsara section is part of the upgrading of the railway between Naples and Bari to prepare it to become part of the fifth corridor of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) that would run between Helsinki and Valetta. The railway project has been identified as a priority under the government’s so-called Sblocca Italia (Unlock Italy) decree that is assigning investments to strategic infrastructure.
The new Hirpinia - Orsara section will be about 28 kilometres long and run mostly in a tunnel for about 27 kilometres. The speed at which the trains will be able to reach along the new line is 250 kilometres per hour apart from when they are at the open extremities where they will reach 200 kilometres per hour.
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