Digital Technologies: Road Upgrades with Trimble MX9 and Trimble S7
Widening One of the Busiest Stretches of Road in Italy
The upgrade of a dynamic fourth lane on the A4 highway in Italy relied on road construction company Del Bono SpA and Trimble technologies’ improved process management to enable crews to safely and quickly work on a complex, dangerous construction site.
The project involved the construction of a dynamic lane through the temporary use (for one direction of the road or both) of a fourth lane carved out of the emergency lane and redistribution to the traffic lanes of the A4. In the event of heavy traffic situations, thanks to the installation of signaling systems that dynamically indicate lane opening and speed to drivers, traffic backups on one of the busiest roads in Italy will be mitigated.
The work on the A4 Turin-Venice freeway extends 9.36 km through the urban center of Milan. The widening works are in progress, with gradual opening of the dynamic fourth lane (from 2022) starting from the northbound carriageway (Turin direction) for the Cormano junction — Certosa interconnection with the A8.
As part of the platform operations, quality control is highly emphasized, in addition to compliance with the characteristics expressed in the Special Specifications. Amplia Infrastructures SpA, in agreement with the Client Autostrade per l'Italia, deliberately sought the application of a technology that would allow the achievement of a high standard of comfort for users' driving, through a control for the rolling planes of the highway platform with technologies made available by Del Bono Group SpA and Trimble, specifically the Trimble® MX9 and Trimble® S7.
