Italferr is engaged in the construction of the Brenner Access Project, aimed at strengthening the European TEN-T ‘Scandinavian-Mediterranean’ Core Corridor connecting Helsinki with Valletta, passing through Central Europe, the Tyrrhenian ridge and the main Sicilian cities, over 9,400 km of tracks. The Central Alps part consists of the Munich-Innsbruck Northern Access Line, the Brenner Base Tunnel, and the Fortezza-Verona Southern Access Line. The Northern Access Line and the Brenner Base Tunnel have cross-border sections, while the Southern Access Line is located entirely on Italian territory, along the Isarco and Adige valleys. The Brenner Base Tunnel will run for a length of about 55 km between the stations of Fortezza (Italy) and Innsbruck (Austria), where it will run underground into the existing ring road, which is also in a tunnel, reaching a total length of 64 km. The Southern Access line will run for about 180 km between the stations of Fortezza (BZ) and Verona (VR) and will involve the quadrupling of the existing two tracks. The northern end of the project consists of Lot 1 Fortezza-Ponte Gardena, which will run mainly in tunnels for a total length of 22.5 km.

With this new infrastructure, freight traffic flows can be separated from passenger traffic flows and, among the latter, long-distance services separated from local services, with enormous benefits for travellers. Local public transport will be able to run on the historic line in a more efficient, faster and steadier manner, while on the new tunnel section from Fortezza to Innsbruck, which is 20 km shorter than the current one, the need for changing traction, because today it differs between Italy and Austria, will disappear, reducing travel time for the fastest trains by a third, i.e., from the current 75 minutes to 25 minutes. As for freight, the specialisation of the lines will allow an increase in traffic from the north entering the Verona Hub, with a significant impact also on the intermodal road/rail terminal ‘Quadrante Europa’, increasingly pivotal within the Italian and European logistics system as the intersection point of two European TEN-T Core Corridors, the Scandinavian-Mediterranean and the Mediterranean, as well as of the two motorways Brenner (North-South route) and Serenissima (West-East route).