Verona-Padua High-Speed/High-Capacity railway

The Verona-Padua HS / HC Line, with a total route of 76.5 km (through the territory of the provinces of Verona, Vicenza and Padua), is divided into 3 functional lots.  The new line will allow a more rapid connection between Verona and Padua - passing through Vicenza. It will complete the railway connection between Milan and Venice, adding itself to the Mediterranean Corridor of the Ten-T network (core network), the transport trans-European strategic infrastructure that from Spain reaches the Hungarian border with Ukraine.

The project is being built with the IRICAV DUE consortium, with an 83% stake held by Webuild and 17% held by Hitachi Rail STS. The Webuild Group will design the project, deal with the environmental monitoring and build all of the civil works and reinforcements using the sector's most advanced technology. Hitachi Rail will on the other hand build the ERTMS digital signalling system, the most advanced digital signalling system in Europe. It allows more trains to circulate along the lines, also improving transport reliability and speed. 

The first "Verona-Bivio Vicenza" functional lot foresees building a 44.2 km section crossing 13 municipalities, quadruplicating the existing line, also increasing the railway offer's quality and its integration with the European network, while reducing the environmental impact and accident rate associated to road mobility.

The second functional lot "Vicenza crossing" (Attraversamento di Vicenza", in continuity with the first lot), concerns the section of the route crossing the city of Vicenza. Measuring 6.2 km in length, from the city of Altavilla Vicentina to Vicenza station, it also foresees renovating 4.8 km of the Historical Line. The project of this lot foresees building two stations (“Vicenza Fiera” and “Vicenza Viale Roma”), besides 55.4 km of embankments, 12 underpasses and 11 technological buildings.

The third functional lot, which is currently in the design stage, pertains to the Vicenza-Padua stretch, which will cover move than 26km.

The HS/HC Verona-Padua railway project represents a very important connection in Italy's North-eastern area, and a new important piece for the economic and occupational relaunch driven by infrastructure. 

The project, part of the high-speed/high-capacity Turin-Milan-Venice railway, will belong to the Mediterranean Corridor that will link Spain and Ukraine: One of the strategic trans-European transport corridors (the so-called TEN-T core network), it will connect southwestern European countries with countries to the east. The Corridor will support economic exchanges between Europe and Asia. In Europe, meanwhile, it will handle traffic between the southern and eastern regions. With the addition of the line between Milan and Venice to the national network, 75% of the Italian population will have access to high-speed rail service.