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TRANSPORT
TECHNITAL has been operating in the transport engineering
field since 1964, the year of its foundation, and since then
this sector has always played a prominent role in the
Companys activities.
The long experience acquired in this field has allowed the
progressive development of planning, research and study
methods which have led to the steady improvement in the
quality of the product with considerable benefits to costs and
performance times.
The wide range of services offered by TECHNITAL in this sector
include:
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Planning
and project management;
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Feasibility
studies, technical-economic evaluations and design;
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Environmental
impact studies;
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Traffic
studies;
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Financial
schedules;
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Assistance
with tenders, works supervision, assistance during the
construction and inspection of the works;
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Co-ordination
and supervision of research and laboratory tests;
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Development
and application of analysis methods and software for the
planning and management of interventions.
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To date these activities have concerned principally: |
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overland transport systems: roads, motorways, railways,
airports;
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river transport systems: inland waterways and canals;
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shipping systems: ports and off-shore terminals;
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urban transport and parking facilities: underground railways
and parking facilities.
For the execution of the different activities within the
transport field, characterised by a high degree of
interdisciplinarity and specialisation, TECHNITAL has at its
disposal a team of experts in numerous fields, and innovative
and avant-garde computer software.
In practical terms, in approaching transport infrastructure or
planning design, the first step is to consider the environment
in which the work will be located, evaluating the design
options from a broader point of view. Any negative effects are
thus identified immediately and measures sought to mitigate
them, in accordance with a philosophy of "integrated design",
typical of environmental impact studies, where environmental
considerations are fundamental for determining the ideal
design options.
This methodological approach is clearly represented in the
road and motorway designs carried out by TECHNITAL. The
best example of this is afforded by the 182 km
Messina-Palermo Motorway. The Company has been involved
in this project since 1967, with a long interruption from 1975
to 1983, due to the State's decision to freeze the financing
of motorways.
For this motorway, the design activities followed a
methodology which made it possible to define the functional
characteristics of the different alignment components, and to
identify the effects on different environmental features.
Thanks to mapping techniques which allow the global and
sectorial consideration of environmental aspects, the analysis
of the territorial system, mobility, and the instruments for
urban and territorial planning, it has been possible to
develop a process of design optimisation based on the
definition of alternative intervention hypotheses, more or
less equivalent from the technical and operational point of
view, until the other determining parameters are introduced.
This has enabled the development of design criteria which
satisfy both the functional/construction requirements and the
environmental/landscaping aspects, such as the introduction of
long span viaducts to reduce the barrier effect.
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