Minimetrò

Head of the technical Manager Supervisor  of the company Minimetrò SPA (General contractor).

MiniMetro is a family of cable propelled automated people mover systems built by Poma/Leitner Group. The vehicles either run on rails or an air cushion and have either a detachable grip (to the cable) or a fixed grip. Leitner has a test track for the vehicles in Sterzing. Current maximum capacity of the system is around 8000 passengers per hour. The latest system installed with the MiniMetro brand was the Cairo Airport People Mover that opened in May 2013.

It runs by cable, from Pian di Massiano on the outskirts -- there's a stadium and a lot of car parking, past the main FS train station at Fontivegge. Then it starts to climb, to Madonna Alta, plunging underground for two stops.

The first underground stop is Cupa, which is at the foot of the escalators that descend from Via dei Priori. Then it parallels the Galleria Kennedy, plunging under the very center of down (very deep at this point) to Pincetto, which is adjacent to the covered market (Mercato Coperto). You go up a few escalators and emerge in Piazza Matteoti, which is a block over from the Corso Vannucci.

The "trains" are little silver cars and are cute, really. They come every couple of minutes. They're painted bright red inside. The stations themselves are ultramodern and striking, and were designed by the award-winning French architect, Jean Nouvel.