8 corridors linking 18 cities, about 2,200 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 2,700 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 6 cross-border links and crossings. Turin to Venice, Milan to Rome, Naples and Calabria, with a sea crossing at the Strait of Messina to Sicily, Alpine tunnels to France and Austria, and a future Strait of Sicily crossing from Marsala to Tunisia.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Italy network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
IT-1 Po Valley: Turin – Milan – Verona – Venice
IT-2 Spine of Italy: Milan – Bologna – Florence – Rome – Naples – Salerno – Villa San Giovanni
IT-3 Brenner: Bolzano – Verona
IT-4 Sicily East: Messina – Catania
IT-5 Sicily North: Messina – Palermo
IT-6 Adriatic: Naples – Bari
IT-7 Ligurian: Milan – Genoa
IT-8 Sicily West: Palermo – Trapani – Marsala
Engagement
To initiate the programme in Italy.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Italy: Make contact.
