Fiumicino, 17 March 2022 - Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, with CEO Luigi Ferraris, and Aeroporti di Roma, with CEO Marco Troncone, have signed an agreement to develop sustainable intermodality and integration between rail and air. The presentation of the agreement, at Fiumicino's Leonardo da Vinci airport, was attended by Fiumicino Mayor Esterino Montino, Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri, ENAC President Pierluigi Di Palma and Lazio Region President Nicola Zingaretti.

To encourage the transition to the smart hub status of the airports managed by ADR, the agreement aims to enhance direct High-Speed connection services between Fiumicino airport and the South of Italy and accelerate current services with the North of the country (Florence/Bologna/Pisa). In particular, there is a desire to develop integrated train+air products by implementing commercial agreements with airlines at Fiumicino to integrate the reciprocal sales and distribution systems with the possibility of passenger and baggage check-in directly at the main railway stations connected to Leonardo da Vinci. In other words, you can get on the train in stations such as Florence, Bologna or Naples and get off directly at your destination, even overseas, in a simple, safe, fast and comfortable way. Not least among the objectives set is the improvement and development of passenger information on flights and train movements in trains, stations, and airport terminals. The station thus becomes a true extension of the airport terminal.

With this in mind, in addition to expanding connections and enhancing the flow of information, the project includes the infrastructural development of Fiumicino Aeroporto station, where it is planned to increase from the current three tracks to a total of five. The development of road transport is also envisaged, with investments and road projects. Further planned improvements and developments of the line concern the construction of the FL1 and FL5 connections via San Pietro and with Civitavecchia and a quadrupling of the Ponte Galeria-Fiumicino Airport section. For the High-Speed direct connection, the project foresees the closure of the Rome railway loop and infrastructure bypasses for direct trains to Fiumicino without stopping at Roma Termini.

As part of Urban Air Mobility, the agreement also includes the design and construction of a vertiport on the car park plate of Rome's Termini Station and the identification of further suitable spaces for the future expansion of this network. ADR is actively working in this field to launch the first commercial operations between Fiumicino airport and the metropolitan city of Rome in 2024.

“The agreement with FS Italiane is a strategic one - declared Marco Troncone, CEO of Aeroporti di Roma - not only for ADR but for the country's integrated mobility sector, fully in line with the policies indicated by our government. Through the launch of a real intermodal train-to-air offer, which enhances Fiumicino's role as a smart hub, it maps out and anticipates new mobility in the name of sustainability and the multiplication of connectivity opportunities for travellers. And by enhancing accessibility to the airport, it makes Fiumicino more ready for the recovery of tourism and, more generally, for a future of growth, right from the next appointments until the Jubilee 2025.”

“Rail and air transport - stated Luigi Ferraris, CEO of the Italian Gruppo FS - must cooperate in a context of integrated and sustainable mobility, through strategic collaborations aimed at creating a convergence of objectives, generating benefits for both sectors and the mobility system in general. The agreement with Aeroporti di Roma goes in this direction. It bears witness to the commitment of the Italian Gruppo FS to facilitate connections between the country's main gateways such as stations, airports and ports. We are working to build new rail infrastructure, upgrade existing infrastructure, and offer the services. Rapid action is needed to make the whole country more competitive and attractive with a sustainable, multimodal, efficient and interconnected transport system for both people and goods.”

The President of ENAC, Pierluigi Di Palma, pointed out: “Strategic and sustainable intermodality: this is the objective that the country must aim for to be competitive at the international level, starting with Italy's most important gateway, Rome Fiumicino airport. To do this, the industry needs to restart as soon as possible, without hesitation. To meet the needs of one of the industry hardest hit by the crisis, ENAC has overcome bureaucratic obstacles and has already advanced the airport management companies to the first tranche of 300 million euros, equal to 50% of the compensation requests made for damages caused by the Covid-19 health emergency. About 110 million have been allocated to Aeroporti di Roma to help it restart. The ADR - FS agreement is essential to enhance the integration between train and air. Still, sustainable intermodality is equally crucial to promote advanced air mobility, which will allow, among other things, air taxi flights between Fiumicino airport and the city centre from 2024. The ENAC, together with the entire social and industrial fabric of our country, is ready for the new integrated mobility: the future has arrived”.

“What we are presenting today is an ambitious project - commented the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri - which is part of the wider process of developing increasingly modern and sustainable mobility in Rome. I would therefore like to thank Ferrovie dello Stato and Aeroporti di Roma for this protocol, which will enable us to consolidate transversal sectors and competencies - from mobility to tourism to services for citizens - in the wake of two major strategic axes: intermodality and accessibility. Fiumicino Airport, an airport of fundamental importance for the whole country, will benefit from new infrastructure, more direct connection services and greater integration between rail and air. This is a forward-looking strategic choice, which gives us a clear view of the direction that logistics and transport will take in the coming years. As Capitoline Administration, we are committed to promoting interconnection and sustainable mobility in all its forms, exploiting the great potential that comes from the NRP, in the name of innovation and digital industry. Today's agreement allows us to act in synergy, to seize better opportunities of extraordinary importance such as the Jubilee 2025 and the challenge of Expo 2030”.

“With the agreement signed today - comments the President of the Lazio Region, Nicola Zingaretti - we make a further leap forward in strengthening rail connections and enhancing Fiumicino airport, Italy's most important gateway to the world. We have been working in great harmony with Ferrovie dello Stato and Aeroporti di Roma on these objectives for 9 years now. The project we are launching today represents a very important new challenge, crucial in a phase like the one we are living in. Better connecting the country today is crucial for creating new development and new jobs and for increasing people's well-being. The NRP will greatly boost these objectives, and the Lazio Region will continue, as it has done in recent years, to invest in this priority mission. Fiumicino is a central airport for the whole country. It will be even more so in the next few years, with the major international events that will see Rome and Lazio as protagonists, starting with the Jubilee of 2025. With FS and Adr, we are putting down on paper a strategic plan to ensure that we are ready for the major challenges of the coming years”.

ADR, Italy's leading airport hub and the best in Europe over the last three years has chosen to focus on digitalisation, safety, innovation and environmental sustainability and has long since set out on a path to zero CO2 emissions by 2030, ahead of the targets set by the European airport sector, as well as being Carbon Neutral for ten years, confirming its determination on the sustainability front and in particular in the fight against climate change.

The Gruppo FS Italiane is at the heart of the country's mobility system. Therefore, it plays a key role in its relaunch and development, intending to integrate different modes of transport under sustainability. Ferrovie has always been at the forefront of the country's modernisation process, and even more so today: over 24 billion euros have already been allocated to FS by the National Reform Programme under Mission 3, and the additional investments planned by the Group over the next ten years represent an opportunity to redesign and rewrite Italy's infrastructure and mobility system.

Aeroporti di Roma, an Atlantia Group company, manages and develops the airports of Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino and carries out other activities associated with and supplementary to airport management. Fiumicino has two passenger terminals and is dedicated to business and leisure customers on national, international and intercontinental routes; Ciampino is mainly used by low-cost airlines, express couriers and General Aviation activities. In 2019, ADR recorded, as an airport system, 49.4 million passengers with over 240 destinations worldwide that can be reached from Rome, thanks to the approximately 100 airlines operating in the two airports (In 2021, following the impact of Covid-19 on air transport, Fiumicino airport recorded just 11.7 million passengers, whilst Ciampino airport closed the year with 2.3 million passengers). In 2020 the Airports Council International Europe awarded Leonardo da Vinci the “Best Airport Award 2020”. For the third consecutive year, Leonardo da Vinci confirmed it reached first place out of all European hubs with over 40 million passengers. The award adds to the recognition from Airports Council International World, which in 2021, for the fourth consecutive year, awarded Leonardo da Vinci the “Airport Service Quality 2020” award for being the most appreciated airport in Europe among hubs with more than 40 million passengers. ADR's management expertise is also confirmed by the awards received in 2019 by Skytrax, the main international rating and assessment company in the airport sector, which confirmed the 4 Skytrax stars obtained by Fiumicino in 2017. Also in the area of digital innovation, the main driver of ADR's strategy, important recognition was received. During 2021, as part of the ACI Europe Best Airport Awards, Fiumicino airport was awarded the ''Digital Transformation Award''. Finally, with reference to the measures implemented to protect health, the hubs have distinguished themselves by winning numerous awards: ''Airport Health Accreditation'' for the years 2020 and 2021, ''Airport Health Measures Audit'' in 2020 that certified the Safeguard airports, ''Biosafety Trust Certification'' from RINA in 2020 as a result of a careful investigation on the containment measures adopted for all forms of possible contagion and ''Covid-19 Skytrax Airport Rating 2020'' which awarded the Leonardo da Vinci 5 stars overall based on the efficiency of the procedures and the results of the ATP tests.

The Gruppo FS Italiane manages more than 16,700 kilometres of railway infrastructure and a road network of 30,000 kilometres, 24 hours a day, at the ser\vice of travellers. The Gruppo FS, through its subsidiaries operating in the various sectors, carries out and manages works and services in the rail, road and motorway, passenger and freight transport, and public road transport sectors, as well as enhancing the value of its assets that are no longer used for railway operations in terms of urban regeneration, with particular reference to stations, nodal and transport infrastructures, and available assets. The investments envisaged by the Group and partly financed with the resources of the NRP will make it possible to create new travel opportunities for people and goods along the peninsula and to reduce the infrastructure gap between the north and south of Italy by shortening distances and connecting people and places, with a long-term perspective and vision. At the end of December 2021, the Gruppo FS crossed the Alps with Frecciarossa 1000, the flagship train of Trenitalia's (Italian State Railways Group) high speed fleet, reaching Lyon and Paris, exporting the experience of Italian State Railways in France. Soon the Frecciarossa will also run in Spain, where from 2022, it will provide up to 74 daily connections through ILSA, including 32 on the Madrid-Barcelona route. FS Italiane exports its technological and engineering know-how abroad: in Europe, it is also present in Greece, Germany and the Netherlands, and has strengthened its presence in Great Britain, thanks to the awarding of the concession to manage one of the most important rail routes in the UK, the London-Glasgow line, to which it will add services on the new high-speed line (High Speed 2) that will connect London with Birmingham and Manchester.