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Agreement ISPRA- Italian State Railways for the study of landslides

ISPRA and the Italian State Railways, in order to improve the general frame on the information for landslides along the national railways, have signed an agreement on the field of hydrogeological instability, with a total duration of six years involving two phases of intervention. The first one, which will last 30 months, plans to test a methodology on three sample railway routes, chosen as representative of the types of landslide in Italy.

In the second phase, that should be take a duration of 42 months, an extension of the study to other sections of the railway network potentially subject to landslides will be carried out.

Press release (ita)