TTS Italia Handbook 2006

Consorzio TRAIN
The Company
TRAIN Consortium is an organisation established 1998, financially supported by the participation in
national and EU funded RTD programmes. It represents the first Italian exemple of co-operation
among RTD organisations, Industry and other national economic operators in Transport sector. It was
promoted by ENEA - Italian National Agency on New Technologies, Energy and Environment - and it
also includes at present as partners: TRENITALIA Spa and RFI Spa (IT Railways Co.), Uniontrasporti
S.c.a.r.l (Society promoted by Italian Chambers of Commerce for substaining the development of
Transport System, Logistics and infrastructure), Ansaldo Trasporti Railway Systems Spa and
Ansaldobreda Spa (Italian Industries operating in land transport technologies), D’Appolonia Spa
(Engineering Company operating in information and safety technologies), Reggiane Cranes and Plant
Spa (Industry operating in maritime transport technologies), Bertolotti Spa (Industry operating in
land, maritime and railway transport technologies), Salerno University and Lecce University.
TRAIN mai n goal is to enhance the Italian RTD output and effectiveness within land transport and
maritime technologies in the field of transport. Moreover it operates to extend its own goal through
the co-operation with European industries on technology transfer and co-ordination of national and EU
RTD programmes.
ITS Expertise & Solutions
The activity of TRAIN concerns various technological areas, from design to production, operational,
safety & ecology issues, with regard to vehicles, transport systems and logistics. Results have been
achieved, through a large use of ITS systems, in innovative technologies on railway transport,
improvement of multi-modal logistic processes, set up of management systems applied to the urban
mobility of public transport.
The development of intermodality, as a way to rationalise means and resources connected to the
transport service, the development of new ITS technologies, represents the typical attitude of TRAIN
in its rule as promoter and path of cooperation between research and industry. TRAIN works with
both private and public organizations in cooperation with industrial and/or research partners in the
different phases of projects: feasibility studies, planning, modeling, cost- benefits analyses, system
requirements specification, technical specifications, design, implementation, system integration, test
and validation, contracting, procurement and project management.
References:
Head office: 75026 Rotondella (MT)- SS 106 Km 419+500 – Italy
Contact person: Pierluigi Ficara
Email: ficara@consorziotrain.it Phone: +39. 0835-974537 - Fax: +39.0835-974536
Website: www.consorziotrain.com
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