High speed on the Adriatic Sea, MIT plan: Rfi studies the hypothesis of trains with a speed of 300 km per hour

From an isolated idea to an analysis by Confindustria. But soon the dream of the Adriatic regions to create a high-speed railway will be put on paper by Rfi. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in fact asked the Italian railway network to prepare a feasibility study for a new railway section Bologna – Ancona – Pescara – Foggia – Bari, backed off from the existing track that runs along the sea It cuts the cities on the Adriatic coast into two parts. The feasibility study will be completed by the end of 2023, at which point it will be possible to compare the costs and benefits of this major new work with the project to speed up the existing rail line.

Cost speed comparison

The main comparison is cost and speed. A high-speed railway from Bologna to Bari – like the one that changed mobility on the Tyrrhenian side – would cost between 40 and 50 billion euros. Trains can travel at up to 300 kilometers per hour and times between south and north are much shorter. In short, the gap created in the past twenty years between the east and the west of the country will be bridged: just think about it Today it takes less time to get to Milan from Naples (4 hours 30 minutes) than from Pescara (4 hours 44 minutes), although the latter (521 kilometers) accounts for two-thirds of the first (790 kilometers)..