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Author-Name: Maria Chiara Cattaneo
Author-Email: m.c.cattaneo@alumni.lse.ac.uk
Author-Name: Laura Binaghi
Author-Email: segreteria.cranec@unicatt.it
Author-Name: Tiziana Pianezze
Author-Email: segreteria.cranec@unicatt.it
Title: Valtellina Vettori Veloci (3V). Per una nuova centralitŕ della ferrovia con Milano
Abstract: The Valtellina Vettori Veloci (Valtellina Fast Carriers) project, proposed
by Alberto Quadrio Curzio, points to the need of (re)focusing on Milano-
Tirano railway transport for the connection of the province of Sondrio to
Milan as capital of the Lombardy Region and to concentrate the whole mobility
of Valtellina, Valchiavenna and with the Rhaetian railway on this.
The proposal is rooted in the works by Alberto Quadrio Curzio carried out
since 1989 (mainly with the support of Credito Valtellinese and SEV -
Valtellina Economic Society) - on sustainable development in the Sondrio
province. Such a proposal was formally presented in an interview to the
newspaper “La provincia di Sondrio “ at the end of 2008. After that a debate
was started and an important conference “Valtellina Vettori Veloci: Starting
again with railways” was organised by SEV in July 2009. Since then there
has been an institutional and economic process involving both the President
of the Province – Massimo Sertori – and the CEO of Trenitalia-LeNORD –
Giuseppe Biesuz. Their great commitment has led to a tangible and very
relevant result: the pilot project named “Snow Train” running for the first
time on 3rd December 2010. The same project is part of a larger initiative
called “Valtellina Project”.
In its three parts, this study accounts for the past and for the present and also
meditates on the future sustainable mobility developments.
• The first part shortly summarises reviews and assessments made in
various works by Quadrio Curzio throughout the last twenty years
on the topic of the Sondrio Province’ sustainable development, and
with a particular focus on transportation. It goes on with presenting
“Valtellina Vettori Veloci” proposal – within the framework of the
“Statuto Comunitario per la Valtellina” (Valtellina Community
Statute) (art. 4, art. 9 and particularly art. 10) - with regards to infrastructures,
connections and sustainable development and then
moving to a summary of the above mentioned conference. This
section also presents an organisational proposal aimed at creating
an agency coordinating those transport related issues and being expression
of the Valtellina Community in a public- private partnership.
It is indeed clear that a deep involvement of both political and
economic actors of the province is needed; otherwise it will be difficult
that the 3V initiative will manage to succeed and grow.
• The second part is about Trenitalia–LeNORD’s response to the
need for an improvement in railway transport from Milan- Tirano.
It presents the “Valtellina project” including the “Snow Train” realised
together with the support by local institutions and economic
actors of the province. “Valtellina project” is presented as a possible
pilot project which, as a prototype, will possibly be exported
also in other territories and local contexts.
• The third part concludes this research by looking forward, opening
up to new perspectives offered by the link with the Rhaetian Railway
and by EXPO 2015. It also looks at the need to develop projects
for alternative mobility and for freights with a view to effective
intermodal transport systems. It then proposes new possible
research analysis and specific lines for action.
Keywords: railway transport; Valtellina; sustainable mobility developments 
Classification-JEL: R41 R58     
Creation-Date: 2010
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