doi:10.3850/978-981-08-6396-8_P237

ABSTRACT

Despite the delay accrued in the past decades and the big technical challenges to be faced — archaeology, geology, lack of free space — the City of Rome, by means of Roma Metropolitane, is now developing a modern underground network. The Company stands as a centre of excellence for the management of all matters concerning the planning and realization of new infrastructures that aid mobility in the city of Rome. Line “C”, currently under construction simultaneously with Line “B1”, represents one of the biggest public works ever done in Italy and Europe and the most important of the Italian strategic infrastructures defined in the so called “Objective Law”. It will be the first metro line in Rome to be fully automated (driverless system). Moreover, Roma Metropolitane tested and validated the emergency fire system of the line with a fire experiment that represented a unique event of international value in order to better define fire prevention measures and strategies for evacuating passengers from the tunnels. Rome’s archaeological and monumental heritage is to be preserved and represents the highest risk for the construction of the line. The experience of building the Line C is really problematic from this viewpoint, but the works go ahead and will provide the “Eternal City” with an infrastructure which will carry the citizens and thousands of tourists from the extreme suburbs to San Giovanni, Piazza Venezia, San Pietro. This line will certainly be the last big work entirely financed by the public administration: Roma Metropolitane is now using project financing for the future sections of the metro system scheduled for construction, starting from the extensions of the existing lines A and B and of the ones under construction, B1 and C.

Keywords: Rome, Roma metropolitane, Line C, Archaeology, Project financing.

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