Improving public transport by rail : the case of public transport by train in Calabria, Italy.

Author(s)
Cirianni, F. & Marazzita, S.
Year
Abstract

The company Ferrovie della Calabria is the concessionaire of regional rail and bus transport in the area of Calabria, southern Italy, serving oftenas sole public transport link between many small towns and villages and the main cities, and the interchanges for the national rail network, with asignificant modal share for school and work trips. The company, which previously was publicly managed, is on route to become a PLC company, whose property is still state owned. The company which started as a railway company at the beginning of the last century, converted many routes to road transport during the fifties and sixties, but never abandoning completely itsoriginal rail service, still currently owning and operating a service on track gauges of 950 mm on a total of 231 km of track, in a variety of terrains and conditions, so that rack and adhesion stretches with significant inclines are simultaneously taken into account. A new management and a newtransport approach, oriented to improving the level of service, and to modernize a system which was not corresponding in its formal and functional aspects, pursuing the core transport mode of the company, on the assumption that regional rail traffic connects urban and suburban destinations comfortably, with a strong alternative to congested roads. In addition to an intact infrastructure, comfortable and cost-favourable vehicles are a vitalprerequisite for the acceptance and use of regional public transport as an alternative to the car. This as led to an investment for the renewal of the rail fleet, including the upgrading of the rolling stock based on a modular vehicle concept to optimally meet the various requirements in terms of track gauge, structural clearance and transport capacity. The service strategy implies instead the adaptation of timetables to user needs, implementation of a new approach of punctuality, modernization of the company image and improvement of information and customer service. A description is given of the existing situation, the different actions derived from the strategies for change, the implementation of these actions and the first results obtained. For the covering abstract see ITRD E145999

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C 49397 (In: C 49291 [electronic version only]) /72 / ITRD E146108
Source

In: Proceedings of the European Transport Conference ETC, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 6-8 October 2008, 10 p.

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