Bari Urban Metro

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

VDP together with the grouping composed of NET ENGINEERING Srl and IG&P Ingegneri Guadagnuolo & Partners Srl, led by NET ENGINEERING Srl, has received the contract from the UNIMED SCARL Consortium for the executive design of the works for the construction of the extension of the Bari Lamasinata – Bari Quartiere San Paolo metro connection from the station “Cecilia” to the station “Regioni”

The area occupied by the project extends west of the territory of the San Paolo district. The metropolitan route of the Ferrovie del Nord Barese branches off from the existing Station “Cecilia,” develops entirely in a tunnel, until reaching the square of the new Station “delle Regioni.”

VDP is responsible for designing the planned interventions in the green areas related to the project, the environmental monitoring plan, the design of noise barriers under construction, and the land characterization survey plan.

SPECIFICITY OF THE STUDY

The infrastructure system designed is an extension of the metro line which, through its branches, consisting of stations, also contributes to the redevelopment and physical-functional reorganization of the affected sites. The project is fully integrated with both the existing Ferrotramviaria SpA line and the S district connection. Paolo – Bari-Central and contributes to configuring a widely branched mobility system.

The line’s layout and station location were defined after careful study, analysis, and evaluation of the characteristics of the affected area, the constraints, compatibility, and strategic objectives to be pursued, and the destinations of the areas to be used, following the regulations that regulate them, by virtue of their typification established by the PRGs in force in the municipalities of Bari and Modugno.

Executive design concerns the following environmental issues:

• Mitigation works (noise barriers) are planned to be positioned along the construction site edges to mitigate the impact of noise;
• The Environmental Monitoring Plan (EMP) aims to define the monitoring activities necessary to identify possible environmental changes resulting from the construction of the works. In particular, the objectives of environmental monitoring are to:

• verification of the reference environmental scenario described in the PD to be compared with the subsequent monitoring phases;
• verification of the forecasts of environmental impacts contained in the PD by collecting the parameters considered for the components relevant to the project under consideration;
• verification of the effectiveness of the mitigation measures envisaged in the PD to reduce the significance of the environmental impacts identified during the construction phase;
• identification of any environmental impacts that are not foreseen or of a greater magnitude than the forecasts contained in the PD and programming of appropriate corrective measures for their management/resolution;
• communication of the monitoring results to the authorities responsible for any checks;