Andrea Giuricin
Andrea Giuricin is CEO of TRA consulting, a strategic consultancy company based in Barcelona and Milan with international customers from Europe, Middle East, Asia, America. He teaches Transport Economics at University Milano Bicocca in Italy. He is consultant for the CEO of Italo-NTV, the first private high speed rail company in open access competition. He is senior transport consultant for the World Bank, reforming transport sector in Asia and Africa and for the United Nations. Andrea published several books and analysis on transport field.
IT and US: A new high-speed train business model for the US, Italian style
Italy began building its high-speed rail system in 1977, when an initial piece of the Rome-Florence line was completed. Over the decades it has developed its network until it has almost 1000 kilometers of high-speed lines. Our country is not the first in terms of extension of the network, for example France or Spain have about 3 times as many kilom...