Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI)
Company typeSocietà per Azioni
IndustryRail infrastructure management
Founded1 July 2001; 23 years ago (2001-07-01)[1]
Headquarters,
Italy
Area served
Italy
Key people
Anna Masutti (Chairman) and Vera Fiorani (CEO)[2]
ServicesRail signalling, maintenance, etc.
RevenueIncrease 3,057 million[3] (2021)
Increase 275 million[3] (2021)
Number of employees
Increase 27,892[3] (2021)
ParentFerrovie dello Stato (FS)
SubsidiariesGrandi Stazioni Rail S.p.A. (100%), Bluferries S.r.l. (100%), Blue Jet S.r.l. (100%), Terminali Italia S.r.l. (100%), Infrarail Firenze S.r.l (100%), Tunnel Ferroviario del Brennero S.p.A. (89,9%), Quadrante Europa Terminal Gate S.p.A. (50%)[3]
Websitewww.rfi.it/en.html
Footnotes / references
[1]

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), a state-owned holding company. RFI is the owner of Italy's railway network, it provides signalling, maintenance and other services for the railway network. It also operates train ferries between the Italian Peninsula and Sicily.

RFI's origins can be traced back to a series of railway sector reforms enacted by the Italian government during the late 1980s and 1990s. The agency was founded on 1 July 2001 in accordance with a European directive on rail transport that mandated the separation of the infrastructure operator and the service operators. Prior to RFI's creation, the Italian rail network was managed directly by FS.[1] The agency has been periodically accused of failure to be impartial, including allegations of favouring sibling company Trenitalia over independent operations. The company has been fined in the past for anti-trust breaches. Since its creation, revenue abstraction from access charges have steadily increased, primarily due to the expansion of Italy's high-speed rail network, even as access charges have been decreased.

  1. ^ a b "Chi siamo". RFI. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Ferrovie, sbloccate le nomine: ecco i nuovi vertici di Rfi e Trenitalia" (in Italian). 18 December 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Annual Report 2021" (PDF) (in Italian). rfi.it. Retrieved 10 January 2023.