It is now more convenient and faster to reach Bologna railway station by train and then board the monorail to Marconi Airport or, having landed with a flight in Bologna, continue your journey using the train to your next destination.
The new destination ‘Bologna Aeroporto’ has been created, which allows you to purchase a single train ticket – Frecciarossa, Intercity or Regional – and a ticket for the Marconi Express, the monorail that connects the station of Bologna with the city’s airport in about 7 minutes. Integrated ticket holders will also be entitled to priority access on the Marconi Express.
The novelty was presented this morning at the Marconi Business Lounge by Nazareno Ventola, Managing Director and General Manager of Bologna Marconi Airport, Massimiliano Cudia, Managing Director and President of Marconi Express, and Alessandro Tullio, Managing Director of Trenitalia Tper. Michele Campaniello, Councillor of the Municipality of Bologna for New Mobility and Infrastructures, also spoke.
The integrated ticket can be purchased from one’s own devices through the Trenitalia App, on trenitalia.com and trenitaliatper.it, or in stations at Trenitalia ticket offices and self-service ticket machines.
The agreement is the result of a sharing of strategies by Aeroporto Marconi, Marconi Express, Trenitalia and Trenitalia Tper. It was signed by Trenitalia as owner of the sales platform of the integrated service and by Tper as manager of the Marconi Express service.
This is a first phase of modal integration, which will later aim to also involve the airlines operating at Bologna airport, to offer passengers the possibility of purchasing a flight, Marconi Express monorail and train at the same time, in order to create a single door-to-door itinerary made up of different routes.
With the new Bologna Airport ‘station’, the intermodal offer in Emilia-Romagna grows, with the aim of offering increasingly comfortable, sustainable and fast travel solutions in a region that is witnessing significant growth in tourism and, in particular, an increase in the presence of foreign tourists.
Collaboration between rail, local and air transport is part of this logic, in a context of integrated and sustainable mobility that generates benefits for all sectors and for the mobility system in general.
The initiative also ties in with the EU programme SESAR (Single European Sky) as a catalyst to accelerate the transition to a green, climate-neutral and digital Europe and to make the European aviation industry more resilient and competitive.
In particular, with the SIGN-AIR and TRAVEL WISE projects, in which some of the partners in this initiative are collaborating, the aim is to revolutionise the transport sector through innovative solutions to enable transport service operators to offer air transport and multimodal based routes, increasingly identifying airports as natural multimodal hubs as they are closely connected to other transport networks and in particular to the High Speed rail backbones.
