Pisa Mover, from the station to the airport in 5 minutes

Saturday, March 18, 2017 Editorial Staff Travel

FLORENCE, ITALY – The Pisa Mover was inaugurated today. The new automated transport system for passengers in five minutes connects the Galileo Galilei airport to Pisa Centrale train station. The route of Pisa Mover is one kilometer and 760 meters long.

The new link also provides an intermediate station called San Giusto Aurelia where two large car parks are able to accommodate 1,330 cars.

Pisa Mover is fully automated, electrically powered in order to minimize the energy and environmental impact and is composed of two trains of 107 passengers each, which will be active 365 days a year, from 6 to 24.

The new railway was built by Condotte Spa, its subsidiary Inso, and Leitner. The cost of the construction work has been about 71 million euro: 21 million were financed by the European Union and the rest was from private partners who will operate the railway for the next 36 years.

The train will be free until March 26, then the single ride will cost 2.7 euro. Special rates are provided for customers who will use the new parking lots. The travel time is five minutes.

Pisa International Airport is the main airport in Tuscany and the 10th in Italy in terms of passengers. It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930s and 1940s. The airport was used by 4 989 496 passengers in 2016. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair.

In 2006 and 2007 the airport was the fastest growing among Italy’s top 15 airports with passenger numbers up 30% in 2006 and 24% in 2007. In 2008 it was Italy’s 11th busiest airport handling 3,963,717 and 4,011,525 passengers in 2010. In 2011 the growth rise to 11.3% and the airport carried 4.526.723 passengers.

The airport is operated by the company Toscana Aeroporti, the same that runs the Florence airport. The company founded in 2015 is headed by the multinational Corporation America, created by entrepreneur Eduardo Eurnekian, an Argentinian-Armenian businessman. As of March 2013, he is the second richest person in Argentina.