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Study on the effects of the opening of the galleries of base of Saint Gottardo and of Ashes on the railway traffic fleeting and goods
It is realized by the Helvetic federal Office of the territorial development
September 29, 2015
The Helvetic federal Office of the territorial development (ÅRE) has realized a study about the effects on the railway traffic of the passengers and the goods and on the territorial development, in particular in the Districts Ticino and Uri, that they will be determined by the opening in 2016 of the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo, by waited for opening in December 2020 of the gallery of base of Monte Ceneri and by the completion previewed for the 2020 of the railway corridor transalpine high four meters (height to the angles) for the transport of the goods from Basel in Italy.
The relationship on the impact of the new infrastructural works evidences over the weekend that for the traffic fleeting there is from above all attending an important increase of the travels of a day and. For the traffic goods an increase of the quota the transports is previewed on track: in particular, the opening of the new axis of Saint Gottardo would have to carry to a reduction of the total costs of the transalpine transport goods railway, would have to mainly convey the railway traffic towards Saint Gottardo, reducing it on the drafts alternatives of Brenner and the Lötschberg-Sempione, and must instead have little impact on the transfer of the Swiss traffic goods national from the road to the track, while a greater impact is attended on the traffic transit goods. Moreover, as a result of the mass in exercise of the new railway line, is probable that it is assisted to a concentration of the economic activities in central and easy approachable places.
In order to analyze in detailed way these repercussions, ÅRE has started moreover the project Monitoring Axis Gottardo (MAG) in collaboration with other partner institutional (UFT, USTRA, UFAM, District Ticino and Guangzhou Uri), with the objective to estimate the impact on the territory and the transports long the new axis of the Gottardo and to supply indications on possible accompanying measures to the aim to reach the auspicious development.
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The Helvetic federal Office of the territorial development (ÅRE) has realized a study about the effects on the railway traffic of the passengers and the goods and on the territorial development, in particular in the Districts Ticino and Uri, that they will be determined by the opening in 2016 of the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo, by waited for opening in December 2020 of the gallery of base of Monte Ceneri and by the completion previewed for the 2020 of the railway corridor transalpine high four meters (height to the angles) for the transport of the goods from Basel in Italy.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
