06-03-2018

Stations in Finland speak Italian

AlmavivA wins the tender for public information systems in over 200 railway stations in Finland

Rome, 6th March 2018 - AlmavivA has won the tender offered by the Finnish Transport Agency (Liikennevirasto) for a new public information system in the 200-plus railway stations making up the Finnish network. The Italian Group - a leader in ICT - will also design the architecture for the infrastructure required to deliver the services, and will guarantee system operation for the next 10 years. The Finnish Transport Agency is one of the most innovative in the world and employs over one thousand people across all modes of transport.

The functions and solutions made available by the AlmavivA Passenger Information System (PIS) and the significant experience it has gained in the Italian Transportation sector over the years are the elements which led to the success of the Italian technical-financial proposal.

“It is an important international accolade recognising the skills honed by AlmavivA in the field of Passenger Information solutions,” states Smeraldo Fiorentini, General Manager of AlmavivA’s Transportation & Logistics Division. “Bringing Italian technology to such challenging overseas markets is a source of great satisfaction, even more so considering that the main global players in the sector also took part in the tender process. And now our aim is to reach new markets, looking to Northern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East”.

The AlmavivA solution will be integrated with traffic systems supporting the (approximately) 6 thousand kilometres making up the Finnish network, to enable centralised management of the customer services distributed both in multimodal hubs and as a mobile facility, in 4 languages - Finnish, Swedish, Russian and English - and will be available for video and audio consultation as well as on mobile devices.