Brescia emulates the great European capitals by inaugurating on March 2, 2013 a subway that changes the face of the city. Seventeen stations, fourteen kilometers of line, and sixteen trains constantly engaged in transporting passengers, who in the first week of operation reached an average of 30 thousand per day; on weekends, particularly on the extraordinary occasion of Car-Free Sunday, Brescia Mobility recorded peaks of 90 thousand travelers. Every three minutes, a convoy passes through, which, like the most modern subways, is driverless: the trains run fully automated, stopping at stops with centimeter accuracy that does not tolerate faults.
These specificities are among the most innovative in transportation networks operating in Europe and require a highly reliable operating system that is extremely efficient in every aspect, with the IT component being the heart of management. Brescia’s innovative metro allows the city to take a step into the future.
Pollution abatement, rapid mobility for citizens and state-of-the-art safety solutions have been the must-have goals since the 1980s, when the project began to take shape. The support given by SAP technologies, managed by IT consulting firm Regesta, is indispensable to the project.
Regesta’s technicians studied the application of the most suitable SAP software for the control and maintenance of the cars that make up the trains. The choice of Metro Brescia and Brescia Mobility, which together serve the city’s entire public transport network, 42million passengers a year that will reach 50million with the new metro, was for a reliable and competent partner like Regesta.
