Type | Public benefit corporation, Limited company |
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Industry | Transport |
Founded | 2002 |
Headquarters | Bologna , Italy |
Area served | Emilia-Romagna |
Products | Rail transport Bus transport |
Number of employees | 840 [1] |
Website | Official website |
Ferrovie Emilia Romagna (FER) is railway company serving the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy. The company also operates buses.
The company was formed in 1997 by acquisition by the Emilia-Romagna region of four previous state-owned railway companies:
On 1 January 2008, it also acquired the railway branch of the ATCM of Modena, and, on 1 February 2009, Reggio Emilia's ACT, as well as FBV, becoming the only railway company in Emilia-Romagna.
Emilia-Romagna currently owns 59.44% of FER, the rest belonging to the provinces of Bologna, Mantua, Ferrara, Modena, Parma, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia and Rimini.
Ferrovie Emilia Romagna is the infrastructure manager for the following railway lines:
In the past, FER also used to operate passenger services on the formerly listed lines as well as the following lines, owned by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI):
Railway transport is now carried out by a separate company, Trenitalia Tper.
FER also operates goods transports on its network and on the RFI one.
FER includes a road transport division, with buses connecting several cities in the provinces of Ferrara, Bologna and Rimini.
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The Milan–Bologna high-speed railway is a railway line that links the cities of Milan and Bologna, part of the Italian high-speed rail network. It runs parallel to the historical north–south railway between Milan and Bologna, which itself follows the ancient Roman Road, the Via Aemilia. The new railway follows the Autostrada A1 closely for much of its length. The new line allows faster traffic to run separated and increase the overall railway capacity between the two cities.
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