Collaboration between the ports of Livorno, Piombino and Fortification in order to offer more information to the passengers



The Harbour Authorities of Livorno and Piombino, the Chamber of Commerce of Fortification, the Tuscany Region, the Province of Livorno, the company and Institute of Economic and Social Research (IRES) of Corsica Ferries navigation are working to the project SIC, "Intermodalità and safety for systems of transports competitive Italy-Corsica", with the objective to create a system integrated for the exchange of data between the ports of Livorno, Piombino and Fortification to the aim to supply more information to the passengers of the marine services let alone to increase the efficiency to earth and on board of the ships and to return a distance participated for the definition possible of an agreement between the three areas on combined procedures of safety. The project is financed with 1,5 million euros from the Transboundary Program Italy Francia Marittimo, started on May 2012, for a duration three-year-old.

The seven partner of the project is realizing combined activities on thematic of wide interest as safety, the intermodalità and the use of the new technologies, from the development of the computer science systems for the exchange of data between companies of Harbour navigation and Authorities to the aims of safety, until the veicolazione of information to the passengers on availability and timetables for the intermodal changes (ship, bus, train, parkings) through panels to variable message in the ports on board ship, portals web, app for smatphone and paper campaigns.

In this within of activity, in the course of this month the IRES operators and of society TAGES, which charged from the Province of Livorno, are on board of the ships of Corsica Ferries employed in the drafts Livorno-Fortification and Savona-Fortification in order to directly collect from the fleeting information and proposals on the necessities of intermodal connections from and for the ports; while from this weekend it is already on hand in the marine stations, near the ticket offices and on the ferries from and for Fortification, a brochure with simple information on safety to earth and on board.

"Thanks to this project - the commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Piombino has explained, Luciano Guerrieri - it becomes possible to characterize the information to the passengers, returning it immediate and visible in more points of the marine station. The collaboration on topics which the informatizzazione and safety in marine within are of primary interest for the port of Piombino".

The president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno has expressed the satisfaction of the Leighorn agency for the initiative. "The project - it has emphasized Giuliano Gallanti - has not only implemented safety for the benefit of the passengers in transit and in navigation from and for the Corsica, but it has in fact afforded the dialogue and the collaboration between two fundamental actors of the harbour truth: port authorities and navigation companies".

"One of the criticalities that is more to heart - has said Stefano Bianco, in charge of safety for the port of Piombino and director of the project - it is the resolution of the circulation of the passengers inside of the port; the messages that we have considered to have to communicate, with the IRES experts, and that we will transmit also through the monitor installed in port, are simple and of impact".

Within this collaboration a particular attention will be moreover revolt to the passengers to reduced mobility and safety of the children, to which a specific campaign of communication on the ships of Corsica Ferries will be dedicated, with the use of ludiche images that can draw their attention.

The computer science system SIC is put in net with the system of infomobilità in real time of the Tuscany Region, developed from project 3-I PLUS, also financed it in the within of the European Program Italy Francia Marittimo.