Aspi, new business plan: data-driven model and four new companies

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21 January 2021 Aspi presented the new 2020-2023 Industrial Plan of Autostrade per l'Italia, defined by the managing director Roberto Tomasi, whose purpose is to strongly qualify the standards and activities of the motorway concessionaire and, at the same time, open new business spaces on the engineering, innovation and urban mobility systems front. 

The transformation into an integrated mobility operator and a new corporate and organizational structure: the subsidiaries

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, new

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for better integrated management of the infrastructure life cycle.

Strong push on technological innovation and applied research to transform the motorway network into a 'smart road' that increases the safety and comfort of the traveler.

The first services will be active in mid-2021, while the installation of high-voltage electric charging stations will start on the entire national grid from February.

The service and rest areas will be powered exclusively with self-produced green energy.  

"We want Aspi to become a mobility manager" in "a rapidly evolving context with a change of transport paradigm on all fronts accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis. This was stated by Roberto Tomasi, CEO of Autostrade per l' Italy (Aspi) - Atlantia group - in presenting the plan. "Three elements of the plan:" Delivery plan which provides for an average + 60% of maintenance activities over the plan period and + 110% of investment commitments ( new works and existing asset upgrades) on average over the course of the plan. A new vision of the Aspi group and the transformation plan with a boost on digitization ".

Autostrade per l'Italia's Delivery Plan is "a 21.5 billion euro plan, 14.5 billion euros in investments and 7 billion euros in maintenance by 2038," said Tomasi.

"In the 2020-2024 plan, total investments rose by 110% to 6.1 billion from the 2.9 billion of the 2015-19 Plan. The total maintenance costs went from 1.6 to 2.5 billion".

New vision provides for an integrated management of the life cycle of mobility infrastructures (research, engineering, construction, operation, maintenance), offering innovative services to travelers, even beyond motorways;

innovation and research applied to engineering for the transformation into a "smart" infrastructure;

sustainability at the heart of value creation;

player of excellence also active in the non-captive market.

Aspi will invest between 170 and 200 million euros in 2021-2023 for the complete digitalization of the operating model thanks to 5G technology, according to the new industrial plan that aims at a data-driven company.

This is what can be read in the slides provided by CEO Roberto Tomasi during the presentation conference of the plan.

With the implementation of the Business Plan, new profiles will continue to be added in the fields of engineering, digital services, research and customer relations (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and a recruitment which, by 2024, will see the creation of 2,900 jobs. 

'' We have spent 650 million euros on maintenance of the motorway network in 2020 and we will spend another 600 million in 2021 '', underlined Tomasi.