September 2009

Download: everything on the Mobility issue

Project: "Vertipass - Development of vertical take-off craft in the context of an avant-gard transportation system for Italy"

• Study (presented at the workshop The European Houses-Ambrosetti at Villa d'Este,  september 2009) 
  Modernize mobility in Italy in an innovative and efficient way without cost to the country. How? Using the helicopter and soon-to-be-available convertiplane, both means of transport which, today, can make a crucial contribution to the development of the Italian transport system through an intermodal and sustainable approach that integrates air, land and sea with tremendous advantages for relaunching the economies of the various regions of the country.
  logical framework chart: Italian  (975 kb) | English  (970 kb)
  executive summary: Italian  (9,8 MB) | English  (9,7 MB)
  full text: Italian  (45,4 MB)
  attachment "Routes": Italian  (17,8 MB)

• Press review (September, Italian) 

• Watch the flight of the convertiplane (1'09'')   
  and the photo gallery     

Project: "Vertipass - Development of vertical take-off craft in the context of an avant-gard transportation system for Italy"

• Road show: event file
  Legs of the road show:
  11 february 2009 Palermo
  Program (It.)
  14 march 2009 - Venice
  Program (It.)
  Presentation by Paolo Borzatta: Italian  (374 kb)
  Presentation by Giuseppe Orsi: Italian  (7,1 MB)
  11 may 2009 - Milan
  11 june 2009 - Rome
  Video: Interview with Giuseppe Orsi,  Paolo Borzatta
  Interview with Giuseppe Orsi, AgustaWestland, and Paolo Borzatta, The European House-Ambrosetti, during the last date of the cycle of road shows to present the "VertiPass" project. Rome, Aeroporto dell'Urbe.
  Italian: high definition  (2'35") 
   Italian: low definition  (2'35") 

Project: "Vertipass - Development of vertical take-off craft in the context of an avant-gard transportation system for Italy"

• Preliminary study (presented at the workshop The European Houses-Ambrosetti at Villa d'Este, september 2008)
  Analysis regarding modernization of Italian infrastructure and development of alternative, avant-garde transportation systems.  The analysis represents a preliminary study that will be developed as part of a resarch project whose results will be released in September 2009:
  logical framework chart: Italian  (1,4 MB)
  full text: Italian (1,5 MB)

Project: "The future of the air transportation system: a key challenge for Europe and Italy"

• Study (presented at the workshop The European Houses-Ambrosetti at Villa d'Este, september 2008)
  Promoting a unified, shared approach to air transportation in Europe that reconciles both the future growth of the sector and ambitious goals of environmental sustainability, bringing into line airport capacity and air traffic capacity in European skies and creating an extended airport system throughout northern Italy are just some of the proposals to emerge from this Study. The Study starts from an analysis of the reference scenarios worldwide and formulates 7 concrete proposals for Europe and Italy, not least of which is a "road map" for success for Expo 2015:
  logical framework chart: Italian  (1,4 MB)
  executive summary: Italian  (1,9 MB)
  abstract: English  (3,3 MB)
  full text: Italian  (11,4 MB)