The FS Group is at the heart of Italy’s mobility system, playing a key role in the country’s development with a view to integrating infrastructure and various modes of transport. With its Business Plan backed by 200 billion euro in investments over the next ten years, FS Italiane aims to provide certainty in executing infrastructure works, favouring multimodal collective transport over private transport, increasing – and even doubling by 2019 – freight transport by rail and upping energy autonomy. Still, innovation, digitisation, connectivity and empowering people are the enabling factors for implementing the Plan.

With around 86,000 employees, 10,000 trains per day, some 700 million train and bus passengers per year and over 40 million tonnes of freight annually, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane is a leader in passenger and freight transport by rail. The railway infrastructure extends over 17,000 kilometres, of which more than 1,000 kilometres is dedicated to High Speed/High Capacity services. The Group also operates a road network of around 32,000 kilometres.

The 10-year Plan aims to make rail and road infrastructure increasingly sustainable, accessible, effectively integrated together and more resilient, also bettering their contribution in order to reduce the gap between the north and south of the country, in conjunction with increases to the Group’s degree of energy autonomy through renewable sources and thus contributing to the ecological transition in this sector as well.

The FS Group’s governance is divided into four Business Units – Infrastructure, Passenger, Logistics and Urban – each consisting of different Group companies. Controlled by the FS holding company, the Units are homogeneous in terms of mission and objectives, playing a crucial role in developing increasingly integrated and sustainable infrastructure along with a mobility system. Each Unit is coordinated by a sectoral parent company with the function of policy, coordination plus strategic and financial control. The four operational Units then interact with the International Directorate, tasked with coordinating all the Group’s foreign activities.