Treno Alta Velocità

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Treno Alta Velocità SpA is special purpose entity owned by RFI for planning and construction of high-speed rail lines along Italy's most important and saturated transport routes. These lines are often referred as TAV lines.

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1 Rolling stock
2 Network
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Rolling stock

Eurostar Italia is a system of quality trains operated by Trenitalia on the routes connecting the main Italian cities and towns. Several types of high-speed trains belonging to two major families carry out the service:

ETR 500 (ElettroTreno 500) used as the Eurostar Italia
Pendolino (ETR (Elettrotreno) 4xx series), New Pendolino

In 2008 a new class of Pendolino (ETR 600, or Superpendolino, built by Alstom) will be introduced on TAV lines.

[edit] Network

[edit] North to South

Milan to Naples:

Milan - Bologna (construction started 2000, opening 2007)
Bologna - Florence (construction started 1996, opening 2008)
Rome - Florence "Direttissima", the first TAV line (construction started 1970, first stage opened 1978, finally opened in 1991)
Rome - Naples (construction started 1994, opened December 2005; Naples side last 20 km are still under construction)

Milan to Genoa:

Milan - Genoa (construction start planned for 2006)

[edit] West to East

Turin to Trieste:

Turin - Milan (Turin - Novara: construction started 2002, opened 10 February 2006; Novara-Milan: construction started 2002, opening 2009)
Milan - Verona (construction start planned for 2006)
Verona - Venice (Padua - Mestre: construction started ?, opening ?; Verona - Padua: construction start planned for 200?)
Venice - Trieste

[edit] International lines

Lyon Turin Ferroviaire (Lyon - Chambéry - Turin), which would connect the French TGV network to the Italian TAV network
Milan - Swiss border, which would connect Italian TAV network to Switzerland and Germany through Swiss project AlpTransit (Gotthard Base Tunnel and Lötschberg Base Tunnel)
Brenner Basistunnel (Verona - Innsbruck - Munich), for link with German and Austrian networks
Trieste - Slovenian border - Ljubljana

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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Acela Express • Alfa Pendular •AVE • Eurostar • InterCityExpress • JR-Maglev MLX01 • HST • Korea Train Express • Magnetic levitation trains • Pendolino • Shinkansen • TGV • Thalys • THSR • Transrapid • Treno Alta Velocità • X 2000