The CEO, Marco Piuri, made the news during the Energy Forum in Villa Erba. “We’ll start in Valcamonica, and by 2025, we’ll have renewed half of the company’s fleet.”
Valcamonica is the first Italian Hydrogen Valley, and starting next year, Trenord will operate the first Italian hydrogen trains, which will be both sustainable and low in use.
During the panel “The sustainable mobility aim,” Marco Piuri, Trenord CEO and general manager of the FNM Group, mentioned this. “As part of the ninth Energy Forum” Transition Unchained, energy sources, distribution networks, infrastructures, and modes of transportation will be discussed. The Adam Smith Society, in partnership with Bocconi University’s Green Economy Observatory, hosted a conference called “Removing the Constraints on Sustainable Mobility” last Friday in Villa Erba, Cernobbio.
Weight and consumption
The new trains will be 30% lighter, with a 30% reduction in fuel usage, and will be composed of recyclable materials. “By 2025, 50% of Trenord’s fleet will be replaced,” Marco Piuri added, emphasizing how the company’s evolution is geared toward sustainability.
Other Fnm Group initiatives have been added to these actions. “Through Milano Serravalle, we’re focusing on improving the road infrastructure, providing multi-energy carrier service regions, and introducing digital traffic and safety management,” Marco Piuri explained.
Car trips still account for 80% of overall traffic in Lombardy, and 70% of them are for proximity trips.
A new style of designing may be determined from the research of people’s behaviors and movements in order to produce a service offering that provides a really enticing alternative to private transportation.
It all comes down to altering a vehicle culture and a way of life that is now quite widespread. “With the Mobility as a Community project, we set out to work alongside the generators and attractors of mobility, such as companies and events, to help them define an integrated and customized transportation offer around them,” Piuri explains, “because sustainable mobility is driven by the energy transition, but it is also necessary to rethink movement models.”
Services
In concrete words, in order to make the shift from private to public mobility, a set of services must be developed that suit people’s demands and are adaptable to changes in habits, occasions, situations, and metropolitan geographies.
“Simply evolving towards greener solutions that exploit new energy sources is no longer sufficient,” Marco Piuri concluded, “but rethinking mobility models is perhaps the most pressing challenge, because, unlike the evolution of means and sources, which is driven by technological innovation, it necessitates cultural and behavioral change.”
However, it is critical that the two parts work together. In a context like the one in Altomilanese, which lends itself or would lend itself to a decisive implementation of proximity rail transport, it is, therefore, necessary that local administrations and policies are oriented to facilitate the transition from private to public and rail mobility, with times, routes, and services that meet the concrete needs of people. M. Gisela
