TPL Forum
This day provided Gruppo FS Italiane and stakeholders an opportunity to identify and share strategies to re-launch regional transport, a vital sector for the economy and the quality of life in our country. Events were opened by FS Italiane CEO Mauro Moretti.
Adequate financial resources, further efforts to make our companies even more efficient and productive, certainty concerning payment for services provided, offers in line with real and different types of demand while avoiding duplication of services and promoting the potential of each train through rational integration.
These are the main knots to untie and future challenges to innovate local transportation and offer millions of commuters more efficient services, in line with their needs.
With regard to the efficiency of industrial processes, over the last seven years Gruppo FS Italiane companies have been undergoing important renewal and reorganization operations.
In order to improve offers of Local Public Transport, individual Gruppo FS Italiane companies have organised a number of initiative included in the 2014–2017 Industrial Plan:
- 3 billion euros to modernise the Trenitalia fleet and innovate technology used for the business and passengers;
- 80 million euros to buy 496 new buses for Busitalia which, by expanding offers from the Group through road travel, also ensures that Group has become an integrated operator and the only effective interlocutor for public customers.
FS Italiane confirms its approval of awarding services through public tenders while hoping that such operations entail the same regulations throughout Europe, in other words under reciprocal conditions. In order to ensure that tenders are effectively “competitive”, relative regulations must be clear, requests for bids must accurately reflect the requirements of customers and aim to ensure real and effective integration entailing suitable prices able to remunerate capital.