Lecce-Brindisi line
The upgrading of the railway traffic management technologies has been completed
Between Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th of July, the new Peripheral Point-Computerised Central Interlocking (PP-ACC), that completes the Computerized Multistation Central Interlocking system (ACCM) for the Brindisi-Lecce line of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), was completed in the Lecce station for the management and control of railway traffic.
The system is a veritable "control room" that, thanks to state-of-the-art technology, makes the infrastructure more reliable by increasing the standards of regularity and punctuality of trains. With the new system’s installation, commands are given by traffic operators through specific software, used in place of the Relay Interlocking System, and allow for an increase in possible routes between station platforms and adjoining lines.
The commissioning of the new plant has involved Italferr, the engineering company of the FS Group, assigning it the management of the design, construction, verification and activation processes, in constant collaboration with RFI structures and the Contractors, thus making it possible to achieve this important goal. The intervention, in fact, represents a further phase in the technological upgrading of the Adriatic Main Line, as part of a larger program of infrastructural and technological upgrading of the entire Italian Railway Network. In addition, this project has enabled the recovery of the building once used as a locomotive maintenance workshop and long since decommissioned.