Infrastructure Excellency in Piemonte Region

Infrastructure Excellency in Piemonte Region
Piemonte, through highly specialized companies,
offers a wide range of top level services in the
following fields:
Engineering and construction of roads and
highways
Companies offer specialized services such as
feasibility studies, environmental impact appraisals,
road construction management, road network,
cement and bitumen, road signals and accessories
as well as acoustic barriers.
Railways and metros
Highly specialized Piemonte companies are able
to implement: feasibility studies of new rail works,
overhaul and improvement of existing installations,
environmental impact appraisals, acoustic barriers,
construction supervision, construction planning and
project control, real-time monitoring and in-house
GIS control systems, supply of rail equipment wheelrail
interchange and so on.
Underground and tunnels
Our companies can implement the following:
tunnels construction planning and project control,
physical impacts on the natural environment, social
and economical impacts on a project involving
transformation and development of urban contexts,
tunnels construction management, tunnels
construction supervision, risk analysis.
Bridges and viaducts
Piemonte companies offer highly specialized services
in designing and construction of steel bridges and
structures.
Intelligent transport system
Piemonte companies offer a wide range of services
such as: modeling, optimization on existing
infrastructures and monitoring of traffic flow, web
portals for fleet and transportation, monitoring of
traffic flows for dynamic routing, analysis of drivers
behavior, environmental compatibility/sustainability
analysis, perishable and dangerous goods
monitoring, etc. Investing in advanced systems for
intelligent transportation and info-mobility is the road
to making inner-city traffic more agile, safer and
more comfortable, to reduce emissions and therefore
pollution as well as to enhance environmental
sustainability of urban mobility.
Torino is emerging as one of the leading centers
for the convergence of all sciences related to the
development of “Sustainable Mobility”. Many famous
style studios, design firms, and designers work
in Torino and Piemonte. These world renowned
companies and professionals have shifted the
attention from a pure style research mindset, to
the focus of designing parts, supplies and vehicles
equipped with the most advanced materials,
telematics and advanced info-mobility connective
systems. It is from this approach that newer varieties
of vehicles destined for exclusive urban use are born:
an innovative generation of smaller and more agile
vehicles will replace big SUV’s or off-road vehicles to
go shopping downtown.
In Torino and Piemonte, the procedural and
technological know-how of FIAT Power Train (FPT)
and General Motor Power Train (GMPWT), with
the contribution of the research and development
centers of suppliers, the University and the
Polytechnic of Torino, are engaged and dedicated
to the development of the future world engines,
such as: the new generation of diesel engines, to
reduce emissions by downsizing the engine mass
and weight, while increasing the overall engine
performance; evolved electronic systems, to manage
and control the engines’ activities and performance;
hybrid engines, to reduce fuel consumption and to
begin promoting the circulation of vehicles that are
not dependent only on endothermic engines and to
open up the path towards future electric vehicles.
The fast evolution of the new telematics technologies
provides cities with evolved systems for intelligent
traffic management. With over 20 years of
experience, Torino and Piemonte have positioned
the region as a frontrunner in this technology. This
know-how dates back to the 1980s with the very first
intelligent traffic light systems connected directly with
the public transportation system’s vehicles to assure
their priority at the major intersections. It continues

today, with new advanced technological devices installed inside the vehicles enabling them, during a trip, to
entertain a dialogue with systems and infrastructures outside the vehicles, and therefore allowing the drivers to
gain real time information on traffic conditions, congestions, queues, road blocks and works in progress.
In 2006, during the Torino Winter Olympic Games, the system for the intelligent management of the urban mobility
was expanded and, therefore, enabled management and control of traffic outside the city limits, up to the Olympic
mountains.
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS): outstanding skills in Piemonte
• Over 150 public and private R&D centers and companies active in the ITS field;
• Over 30 research projects on ITS currently developed with the participation of at least one company or
R&D center;
• 2,000 skilled staff with know-how in the ITS and info-mobility fields;
• Candidature of Torino as center for the standardization and certification of road mobility at European
level.
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