ANAS CEO Gianni Vittorio Armani
informed Transport and Infrastructure Minister Danilo Toninelli
that he was quitting on November 7, following a change in the
government's stance on the merger between railways company FS
Italiane and ANAS.
Armani also informed the FS Italiane group that he was
leaving the highways agency.
Armani arrived at ANAS in May 2015, following a spell with
Terna Italia, and during his three years in charge he renovated
in a radical way the company, which, with its 27,000-kilometre
road-and-motorway network, is the biggest highway manager in
Europe.
For the first time in its history, ANAS prepared an
articulated investment plan worth 33 billion euros which made
planning over a five-year period (2016-2020) possible.
This plan is heavily orientated towards maintenance
interventions, which account for 46% of the investment funding.
ANAS also adopted a new planned-maintenance programme model
which, among other things, features a system of continual
monitoring of bridges and viaducts (almost 40,000 inspections
were carried out by ANAS technicians on 13,000
bridges/viaducts/overpasses under the agency's management in
2018 alone).
A reorganization of the road network of national interest was
launched under Armani's management too, with the transfer of
several regional and provincial arterial roads (over 3,500km) to
ANAS.
Activities abroad have also registered a significant increase
via participation in the AIE (ANAS International Enterprise),
with, for example, the management of 400km of motorway network
in Russia.
The most-recently approved balance sheet, which refers to
2017, highlighted several important results, such as:
- 2,500km of network asphalted/repaired (Piano #bastabuche -
#nomoreholes plan);
- 450 work sites active for extraordinary maintenance in 2017,
for a value of 979 million euros (up 20% with respect to 2016);
- 2.6 billion euros of tenders published (up 13%);
- 2.3 billion euros of tenders assigned (up 50%);
- 1.4 billion euros of contracts signed (twice the total for
2016);
- over 100 companies awarded contracts for major works (over
three times the total for 2016).
Finally, work on the first Italian Smart Road, the A2
'Autostrada del Mediterraneo' (Mediterranean Motorway), started
under Armani's management.
This is a highly innovative project, one of the first of its
kind in the world in the road sector and unique in terms of its
span, which will make it possible, one one hand, to monitor the
condition of the infrastructures and the surfaces with fixed and
mobile sensors, and, on the other, to improve traffic management
and highway safety as well as experiment with self-driving
vehicles.
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