SINA GROUP. Territory is our value

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1 SINA GROUP Territory is our value

2 ARGO Group The ARGO Group is acknowledged as a leader in the transport sectors, ranging from integrated logistics, to energy and telecommunications, thanks to its continuous updating of technical means and equipments, to its ability to offer services which are fully respondent to the needs of modern production and distribution, as well as to its multi-annual experience acquired in the services and use of high technology tools. The activity of the Group, through the on-going orientation towards research and innovation, operates in terms of absolute efficiency in several sectors MOTORWAYS ENGINEERING TRANSPORTS AND LOGISTICS CONSTRUCTION TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENERGY AND COMMUNICATIONS

3 ARGO Group 59,7% Aurelia S.p.A. / Argo Finanziaria Aurelia S.p.A. S.p.A. / Argo Finanziaria S.p.A. Mercato 9,5% Mercato 50,5% 63,4% ASTM S.p.A. ASTM S.p.A. 49,5% 27% SIAS S.p.A. SIAS S.p.A. 99,9% 45% 100% 20% 84,4% 87,4% 56,0% 82,0% 99,5% SATAP ASA Costanera Norte - Cile Holding Piemonte e Val d Aosta Road Link Holdings (UK) 18% CISA SALT SSAT SINECO SINA Altre attività 40,3% 41,2% 65,1% 36,5% 0,1% 60,8% 96,2% ITINERA + Grassetto ATIVA 6,2% SAV SITAF ADF SINELEC 82% 3% 36,5% 2,1% SABROM SITRASB 59,15% CIV 20,02% Costruzione, progettazione, servizi, altro Servizi e tlc v/s concessionarie autostradali Società holding Concessionarie autostradali Progettazione, ingegneria e manutenzioni infrastrutturali

4 ARGO Group - Motorways Highway SATAP -Torino-Milano stretch -Torino-Piacenza stretch ATIVA SAV SITAF SITRASB ROAD LINK (UK) SALT ADF CISA inclusive of 81 Km stretch linking Parma to the Autostrada del Brennero (under construction) ASTI - CUNEO (under construction) COSTANERA NORTE CHILE TOTAL Km 125,0 167,7 152,7 59,5 94,0 12,5 84,0 154,9 113,3 181,0 90,5 42, ,1

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6 Who s s SINA Sina S.p.A. (Societ( Società Iniziative Nazionali Autostradali) ) was established in 1962 as an instrument for studying,designing,, building and managing new structures pertaining road conditions, road and rail transports and telecommunications. Thanks to its capacity in offering a global service which satisfies ies its customers, Sina reached a leadership position within its reference sector in few years; so it created related companies in order to react to the rising infrastructural gaps by means of innovative and global services. Inside the group, now controlled by ASTM, Sina is partnered by Sineco for control engineering, by CIV for big project turnkey management and by L.I.R.A. for the e research & development of passive safety systems.

7 SINA Turnover trend 14,9 SINA Turnover trend millions euros 24,1 28,2 33,3 38, SINA Personnel employees

8 INFRASTRUCTURES SINA INFRASTRUCTURES Feasibility studies - Project funding With the cooperation of the major research institutes, Sina executed several projects for important infrastructures, also by definition of own rules and methods for the supply of the required services. Feasibility studies are the first stage of the process of intervention on the territory, whose aspects are all analysed and monitored by Sina. Over more than 40 years, Sina acquired experience and know-how in environmental, technical, economical, and political/social fields, which are all very useful in order to archive excellent performances in developing studies. Project funding is a financial instrument aiming at allow the private funding of projects on the basis of their technoeconomical nature. Sina, with the cooperation of other subjects working in this field, participates in the promotion of infrastructure construction through project funding: it is convinced that, for a country like Italy with a low infrastructural level, this is a mandatory choice.

9 DESIGN SINA DESIGN Environment and territory - Road and rail infrastructures - Equipment and safety Design is a complex creative process aiming at identifying optimal solutions for infrastructure construction in compliance with safety and environmental preservation standards. In the field of civil works, Sina distinguishes itself for the specialization in important structures and underground works, integrated into several relevant structures. Sina set up some analysis criteria and methods for an optimal and smooth introduction of infrastructures into the territory, throughout environmental impact and territorial compensation studies. As far as road and rail infrastructure execution is concerned, Sina is the protagonist, thanks to its experience acquired over more than 40 years as designer of linear infrastructures and to its know-how in the fields of General Contracting and Project Funding. In equipment and safety matters, Sina shows a solid experience, which nowadays is translated into dozen of kilometers in tunnels, which allows it to face and solve any kind of need concerning safety, lighting and ventilation in tunnels, by carrying out specialized studies and articulated equipment engineering activities supported by modern calculation programs that assure the prescribed norm levels.

10 SINA WORK DIRECTION Sina offers contractors a complete Work direction service by supplying the responsibility and professional support required by rules in force; this service allows to monitor the correct work execution, in compliance with project specifications concerning civil, environmental and equipment aspects, and to follow work count thereof. Ad hoc teams ensure, through established operation standards, fast and flexible interventions and an efficient management of high surveillance roles for strategic structures such as the high speed rail line Torino-Milano-Novara and the modernization works of the Torino- Milano Motorway, by continuously supplying information as precious feedback as to project structure.

11 SINA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Safety - Barriers and tunnels Sina promotes the technical and managing innovation of transport systems in compliance with evolution of standards and execution modes of infrastructural networks. Sina deals with safety in tunnel under all of its aspects (lighting technique, parametric detection and ventilation) by specific programs, calculation methods and techno/operational design procedures, capable of creating optimal level safety system. As far as safety barriers are concerned, since the 60s Sina promotes studies and experiments, by means of real-scale tests, about internally conceived passive safety systems and installed along more than 600 km on the Motorway network; over time, it also developed projects in compliance with new European standards.

12 SINA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Integrated mobility - Projects for Europe Sina, with the Polytechnical School of Milan and with Sineco, established L.I.R.A., a Laboratory for research, development and validation of passive safety systems. In integrated mobility sector, Sina implements studies and research on transport safety, durable integration on the territory, correct management and engineering of big infrastructures. Sina is convinced that the European integration in the transport and telecommunication field is an essential condition for socio-economical development; for that reason, Sina, in cooperation with the EU countries, played a leading role in conceiving techniques of users information and mobility management, in order to enhance road conditions on concerned areas and infrastructural corridors (Serti, Trans-Alp, Iworomo Projects).

13 SINA SYSTEM SINA SYSTEM Customer care - Communication - Quality system Sina system is highly concentrated on design, organization, direction and control stages, which ensure efficient and optimal management critera of complex projects aiming at ensuring compliance with original specifications and requirements. Sina developed a deep Customer Care analysis for each activity sector, by constantly monitoring and measuring satisfaction factors and the evolution of customer expectations, by joining intervention and attention flexibility to methodological severity dictated by the compliance with procedures of Management system for quality Vision 2000 and to a continuous promotion towards innovation and improvement. Within this logic, Sina implements a communication policy aimed towards the scientific community, institutions, stakeholders and users.

14 SINA Main Activities FEASIBILITY STUDIES, ECONOMIC-TRANSPORT STUDIES AND PROJECT FINANCING A21 Torino-Alessandria-Piacenza Motorway: feasibility study on the regional Broni-Pavia-Mortara Motorway BS-PD-VR Motorway, Junction between A4 and Trompia Valley: traffic and economic studies A5 Quincinetto-Aosta Motorway: feasibility study and preliminary design of the Chatillon Motorway junction C.I.V - East-West Genoa crossing: feasibility study Albenga-Garessio-Ceva Motorway connection: feasibility study Motorway Confederation: feasibility study of structures and systems on the Nogara-Adriatic Sea link England - Road A69 between Carlise and Newcastle. GENERAL DESIGN OF RAILWAY AND ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE A5 Quincinetto-Aosta Motorway - Gran San Bernardo Motorway A5/State highway SS 27 connecting road: feasibility study, preliminary and executive design engineering COCIV - High-Capacity Railway Genoa-Milan III Pass of Giovi : executive design engineering, drafts to the open and inside the tunnel - Preliminary and executive design engineering on practicability and yards A4 Torino-Milano Motorway: general design engineering for upgrading, completing and drawing up executive projects for junctions, in relation with the foreseen flanking of the High-Speed Turin-Milan line ARES Piemonte: external alternative highway to Tortona - Final design engineering and accessory activities Torino Ivrea Valle d Aosta Motorway - Junction between SP 6 - SP SP 175: executive and final design engineering Taranto Harbour platform: preliminary design engineering of the Taranto Harbour Logistic Platform requalification plan T.E.M. - Tangenziali Esterne Milanesi - New External By-Pass of Milan: adaptation of preliminary design engineering and SIA Provincia di Piacenza: executive design engineering and SIA of the Piacenza South West By-pass A21 Torino-Alessandria-Piacenza Motorway: preliminary design engineering of the Turin-Piacenza Motorway modernization - Executive and final design engineering for the direct interconnection between A21 and A1 in Piacenza A10 Savona-Ventimiglia Motorway: junction and toll house of Ventimiglia; junction of Borghetto Santo Spirito A12 Sestri Levante-Livorno Motorway: 3rd lane of S.Stefano-Viareggio; new junctions and toll house of Viareggio A.N.A.S. - A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria Motorway: DG 21/99: section between Gioia Tauro and Bagnara junctions AGENZIA TORINO 2006: SS 23 of Sestriere: alternative highway in San Germano-Perosa Argentina.

15 SINA Main Activities SYSTEMS DESIGN A10 Savona-Ventimiglia Motorway; A5 Quincinetto Aosta Motorway; A12 Sestri Levante-Livorno Motorway; A24 Roma-L Aquila Motorway: requalification of emergency barriers (studies and live testing) BS-PD-VR Motorway - Junction between A4 and Trompia Valley: technological systems A10 Savona- Ventimiglia Motorway; A5 Quincinetto Aosta Motorway: lighting systems in tunnels A5 Quincinetto Aosta Motorway: traffic control system - SOS system and fire safety systems in Signayes and Sorrelley tunnels A15 Parma-La Spezia: electromechanical systems - Lighting systems - Fire safety systems in Vizzana and Bocchetto Tunnels A10 Savona-Ventimiglia Motorway: application of the new emergency barriers to overpass existing ones - Ventilation systems in tunnels A12 Sestri levante-livorno Motorway: technological systems, Saturnia tunnel - Ventilation and systems in Subalvea tunnel and on Stagnoni junction (Livorno) ENVIRONMENT AND TERRITORY COCIV - High-Capacity Railway Genoa-Milan III Pass of Giovi : environmental impact studies and design of environmental monitoring A4 Torino-Milano Motorway: modernization of the Turin-Milan Motorway - Environmental impact study and activities for the support and the validation of the outcomes - characterization of potentially polluting ones - location of hollow ones for the purchasing of the inert material - drawing up of claim plans A21 Torino-Alessandria-Piacenza Motorway: environmental study for modernization of the A21 Turin-Piacenza Motorway - Environmental study for modernization of the Piacenza By-pass A12 Sestri Levante-Livorno Motorway: acoustic requalification to cross through the city of Massa A5 Quincinetto-Aosta Motorway: acoustic requalification in Hone, Donnaz, Verres, Chatillon and Quincinetto A10 Savona-Ventimiglia Motorway: integration of acoustic and emergency barriers ITALFERR: Activities to support the studies and plans on environmental activities in many railway sections and nodes T.E.M. - Tangenziali Esterne Milanesi: environmental study on the outer bypass of Milan.

16 SINA Main Activities WORKS SUPERVISION FIAT: high-capacity Turin-Novara-Milan Railway - Turin-Novara line and Novara-Milan line A4 Torino- Milano Motorway: modernization of the Turin-Milan Motorway A10 Savona-Ventimiglia Motorway - Borghetto Santo Spirito junctions A4 Torino-Milano Motorway: access practicability to the new Rho-Pero fair pole T2 Gran San Bernardo Tunnel: modernization activities on the ventilation system ARES Piemonte: building of alternative highway in Strevi A21 Torino-Alessandria-Piacenza Motorway: direct interconnection road between A1 and A21 in Piacenza, plot 8/9 A12 Sestri Levante-Livorno Motorway - study of a fire prevention system in the Subalvea tunnel (La Spezia). TECHNICAL STUDIES AND PLANS OF SEARCH AISCAT, UE: Hannibal Project MIN LLPP, UE: Serti Project UE, TNO: Ecosafe Project MIN LLPP, UE, AISCAT: Corvette Project CNR - National Council for Research: traffic control technologies, studies and experimentations; assessment and prevention of risk in transport of toxic and dangerous substances. Definition tools designed for emergency transport planning A32 Turin-Bardonecchia Motorway: analysis of emergencies T2 Gran San Bernardo Tunnel: study on management procedures, in exercise and in emergency conditions, on standard and emergency ventilation systems - definition of a schedule of tests and attendance of the ventilation system appraisal T2 Gran San Bernardo Tunnel: road corridors between Italy and Switzerland, management studies on international traffic A25 Roma-Pescara: study of a system on technological checks in the San Rocco and in the San Domenico tunnels A12 Sestri Levante-Livorno Motorway: study of a fire prevention system in the Subalvea tunnel (La Spezia).

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18 Who s s SINECO Since 1987, Sineco S.p.A. has been operating in the field of engineering, with special reference to the control and planning of maintenance interventions for big transport infrastructures. The Company offers qualified knowhow in diagnostic research, and it has special competences in the surveillance of works of art (1000 works are under its control) and in carrying out maintenance works on roads, recording over 5000 Km of surveys per year, performed with the use of different highly performing technologies, as well as verification activities on the materials used in maintenance works and on the construction of new infrastructures. SINECO s main mission is to provide suitable support to road and railway network operators in the identification, design and planning of maintenance, upgrading and monitoring activities of the concerned works.

19 SINECO Turnover trend 8,0 SINECO Turnover trend millions euros 10,4 12,5 14,3 15, SINECO Personnel employees

20 SINECO INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING In the sector of road, railway and hydraulic structures monitoring, Sineco has often operated in cooperation with international realities. The methods and technologies set up over the years aim at assessing the consistency and safety status of each work checked, in order to prevent any further degradationwith respect to the working conditions of the infrastructure it belongs to. Furthermore, the goal pursued by SINECO is providing short, medium and long term maintenance programs with direction in terms of investment choices made by infrastructure operators.

21 SINECO NON DESTRUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Sineco operates in the field of non destructive technologies applied to civil engineering, where it relies on measurement systems based on laser and ultrasound systems, radar and seismic echoes recordings, visual, infrared thermographic surveys, assessments and monitoring, also remote ones, of static and dynamic quantities. The main application fields are diagnostics specialized for big works, verification of road surfaces operability, tests and inspections on structures and constructions behaviours. The Company, in order to encourage development and technological interexchange, often ties exclusive partnership with important European companies working in the same business sector.

22 SINECO MATERIAL TEST LAB The company, having its own test lab, is involved in construction material checks and big works construction processes quality checks. The test lab is active in bituminous conglomerates of road geotechnics, concrete and steel, and it is equipped with state-of-the-art machines and equipments. In addition, Sineco has a mobile lab which allows the performance of on-site tests. Sineco belongs to the Gavio Group, leader in the motorway sector, which favoured the development of the lab and placed it at very high levels of absolute excellence. Besides the traditional mobile lab, the Company has other high performance means, among which the ARAN (Automatic Road Analyzer) and the HWD (Heavy Weight Deflectometer) to detect the features of road surface paving such as: impression qualities, cross and longitudinal profiles, mapping and altimetric curve radiuses and it provides data for the road computerized register.

23 SINECO ENVIRONMENT In the field of environment protection, Sineco has acquired important experiences in determining vehicle traffic related polluting agents, both in the field of acoustics and in the measurement of air and water quality. The acoustic GIS is the tool that SINECO uses to manage and plan environmental noise, and it mainly performs a twofold function: the first one, is a management function, which allows the road infrastructure operator to have at its disposal a tool through which law requirements can be met and, at the same time it can monitor long lasting interventions during the entire life of acoustic recovery plans; the second one, is an institutional function, which allows competent authorities (such the Ministry for the Environment, Regions, etc) to have a standard operational tool to support decisions, for example for the assessment of correspondence of current interventions vis-à-vis law and strategic goals, and for the verification of the state of the environment. Furthermore, Sineco carries out other activities such as: performance tests on lighting systems, ventilation tests and tests on reflecting qualities of vertical and horizontal road signs.

24 SINECO ENGINEERING Thanks to its competence, Sineco assesses the status of consistency and thus the residual safety of operational structures. The Company has a technical team specialized in this specific field and at present it can carry out important safety coordination activities and specialistic consulting services for the organization of works maintenance plans, or for some of its parts, a document that now in Italy is mandatory since the executive designing phase.

25 SINECO Main Activities SURVEILLANCE OF BIG INFRASTRUCTURES A.d.F.: annual inspections and controls on 181 viaducts, 135 tunnels and over 250 minor works - Inspections, controls and verifications carried out on 9 viaducts along the state road S.S. no.1 (Aurelia bis) S.A.L.T.: annual inspections and controls on 284 viaducts and 48 tunnels S.A.T.A.P.: annual inspections and controls on 69 viaducts - Inspections, surveys and tests for the construction of the 3rd lane along the Asti Est - Felizzano section S.A.V.: annual inspections and controls on 99 viaducts, 8 tunnels and over 150 minor works A.S.T.M.: inspections and controls after the flooding of the Orco and Dora bridges Società Autostrade Centropadane: inspections, tests and controls on the bridge over the Po river ANAS - Ancona Department: inspection and control after the earthquake of two bridges located along the state road S.S. no.76 Savona Provincial Administration: inspection, tests and verifications on the bridge crossing the Bormida river along the Provincial Road S.P. no.36 DEPARTEMENT DES ALPES MARITIMES (Nice-France): inspection and control of an arched bridge AUTOCISA: Inspections on works of art - Inspection and monitoring of two tunnels AUTOCISA AUT. CENTRO PADANE: Inspections of the works of art. NON DESTRUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES A.d.P.: stratigraphic and deflectometric measurements on paved road surfaces, with georadar and curvemeter - Monitoring by georadar of the Ara Salere, Stonio, Pietrasecca and San Rocco tunnels ESCOTA - Societé des Autoroutes Esterel, Cote D Azur - (Nice - France): monitoring by georadar of the De la Coupière tunnel A.d.F.: creation and updating of a road register AUTOCISA: creation and updating of a road register ATIVA: creation and updating of a road register SITAF: creation and updating of a road register SITRASB: creation and updating of a road register ANAS: creation and updating of a road register Area 1 - creation and updating of a road register Area 3 PROV.REGGIO EMILIA: creation and updating of a road register TECNOPIEMONTE: deflectometric measurements by HWD SATAP: acoustic redevelopment plan, phonometric monitoring SITAF: measurement of the reflection quality of horizontal signs on the Torino-Bardonecchia motorway ATIVA ENGINEERING: IRI measurements on the A5 motorway section (Torino-Quincinetto) A.d.F.: acoustic redevelopment plan PROV.ALESSANDRIA: georadar measurements on the paved surface of the former road state SS 590 MILANO MARE: quality indicator identification ATIVA: measurement of the reflection quality of horizontal signs RODANO CONSORTILE: deflectometric and stratigraphic measurements by HWD and Georadar on the A.V. MI-BO-Lot RE section VALDATA: CAT HS and IRI measurements on the Milano Mare motorway sections

26 SINECO Main Activities MATERIAL TEST LAB A.S.T.M.: study and experimentation of bituminous conglomerate cold recycling - Quality tests and checks on the maintenance works carried out on paved roads - Tests and studies on bituminous conglomerate mixes A.d.F.: lab tests on bituminous conglomerates S.A.T.A.P.: tests and checks during paved road surfaces maintenance works - Tests and studies on bituminous conglomerate mixes - Tests and studies on cement stabilized soils S.I.N.A.: geotechnical tests for the enlargement of some sections on the A12 motorway - Geotechnical tests for the enlargement of some sections on the A21 motorway ENVIRONMENT S.A.V.: phonometric surveys on 10 locations for the assessment of the acoustic environment - Lighting measures inside tunnels - Ventilation measures in the Cote de Sorreley tunnel A.d.F.: phonometric surveys on 35 locations for the assessment of the acoustic environment - Ventilation tests in the two tubes of the Rocca Carpanea tunnel - Load tests on the guardrail uprights on the Aquila viaduct A.S.T.M.: phonometric surveys on 16 locations aimed at studying the environmental impact S.A.T.A.P.: phonometric surveys on 3 locations to assess the acoustic environment S.A.L.T.: phonometric surveys on 25 locations to assess the acoustic environment Autonomous Valle d Aosta Region: georadar surveys for the structural check on the Ussel Castle (Chatillon) - Archaeological survey with georadar on the square located in front of the Aosta cathedral - Georadar survey on the Praetorian Gate of Aosta

27 SINECO Main Activities ENGINEERING S.A.T.A.P.: D.I. engineering of renovation works for the Cipollina and Tanaro-Bormida viaducts - Preliminary, final and executive design for the renovation of the Solbrito and F.S. Alessandria viaducts - Arona - Final design for the enlargement to 3 lanes of the F.S. Alessandria viaduct -Arona - Creation of a software for the structural verification of viaducts subjected to the transit of exceptional loads Safety coordination during the execution phase: upgrading of the To-Mi motorway Lot Safety coordination during the execution phase of upgrading works on the To-Mi motorway Lot 1.1 Paved road surfaces control and upgrading To-Mi Safety coordination during the execution phase of upgrading works To-Mi motorway - Resolution of interferences with the railway line A.C. To-Mi ADF: Executive design for the seismic upgrading of the Prino viaduct - Executive design for the seismic upgrading of the Impero viaduct - Executive design for the seismic upgrading of the Gozzo viaduct SALT: executive project for the renovation of the Madonna del Poggio sud tunnel- executive project for the renovation of the Case Nuove nord tunnel - executive project for the renovation of 10 overpasses in the Sestri L.-Massa section SATAP: renovation project of the Stura viaduct - Works Management Team and safety coordination during execution of lot 1.01 in the upgrading of the To-Mi motorway - To-Mi motorway upgrading - Restoration design and upgrading of a 3 lane Bosone viaduct SITRASB: design and works management for the extraordinary maintenance intervention works - Design and works management of the viaducts of the Tunnel junction AMM. PROV. SAVONA: executive design and restoration of the Torretta bridge and safety coordination in the design and execution activities PROV.MILANO: Safety coordination during restoration works on 10 bridges on the Provincial Road S.P. - Safety coordination during extraordinary maintenance works of the overpasses 1 and 7 - Safety coordination during the execution phase. Extraordinary maintenance for safety issues present at some critical points along the SS.PP. of the O service. MILANO MARE: Safety coordination in the design and upgrading. Structural and extraordinary maintenance on the Milano Ovest Ring Road.

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29 Who s s CIV CIV (Collegamenti Integrati Veloci, integrated fast connections), relying on a reliable public and private shareholding, was established in 1990 on the initiative of Mr. Giuseppe Manzitti, lawyer; its goals are study and turnkey management of projects in the field of fast road and railway connections, and important works of public utility within the frame of Italian and European transport systems. The route chosen by the final project signed by SINA and CIV, fits into crossed urban center structure without any interference; it features low risk sections which do not affect the territory. At present this Company, which has maintained intact its unusual values and intervention capacity, continues to be a guide for Consorzio Cociv, the work General Contractor, for the promotion and approval of the new railway line Genoa-Milan. Traditional transport system has reached the emergency threshold; the lack of alternative services increases every day both passenger and goods traffic, with the consequence of increasing sensibly traveling times from pole to pole, with an important costs increasing. In order to meet the necessity of a leaner and safer new European circuit, the high speed railway connection between Genoa and Novi was born; it aims at strengthening passenger and goods transport between Liguria and the Po Valley and at connecting Genoa port and the Mediterranean Sea to Northern Europe and the main corridor for the transborder East- West link.

30 CIV Intervention context Within a scenario of economy globalization, the role of integrated logistics and intermodal transport, and flow and traffic interconnection to distribution centers, ports and airports, is a competitive factor which cannot be given up for the whole Country System. The main ports of the upper Med Sea, Genoa and Marseilles, intermodal hubs, the high speed ways of Europe and the related connections, have to be considered jointly, as elements of a unique main transport system, whose functionality must be optimized and its efficiency exalted. Within the frame of this system, concepts of intermodality and intermobility, which are CIV points of strength, are indissolubly linked, as indispensable conditions for success of fundamental strategic choices. Argo Group, which manages more than km of highway network by the intermediate of ASTM and SIAS, besides modern intermodal centers, became a permanent and important actor of ongoing processes. It plays the role of promoter of important initiatives concerning with general process of transport modernization and mobility and safety optimization; it does so by means of a network of subsidiaries - CIV, SINA, SINECO, LIRAwhich operate in financial, communication, territory and control engineering sectors.

31 CIV Main projects Each new logistic structure has an important impact on the territory, on mobility-environment relationship and on future development of local economies. CIV activity, resumed by the slogan The territory as a value, represents a new way of engineering ; it translates into a precise and deep planning of socio-environmental framework, which is an essential condition to create real new economic perspectives, shared by territory s populations. The construction of the new railway passage (third passage), situated in the heart of the crossroads between the main transport corridors East-West and North/South, is indispensable for economic development of the whole Genoa area and in particular its port, which would risk to asphyxiate if it is only conditioned by road transport. Presented to public opinion in 1990, the project for the third passage, at that time totally financed, has undergone several transformations in terms of its way and its connecting systems to the city, until the final version was drawn up and approved by Cipeon March 29th, Among other projects, CIV, to answer to a real need of Genoa, accomplished a study for a new East-West crossing of the city, by evaluating the engineering possibilities (under water tunnels, mountain tunnels, bridge over the port), by analyzing construction problems, construction and maintenance costs, inhabitants approval index and impact on environment and on employment.

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33 Who s L.I.R.A. LIRA S.r.l. - Laboratorio italiano di ricerca sulle attrezzature per la sicurezza passiva nell ambito del traffico veicolare (Italian research laboratory on equipment for passive safety in the field of vehicle traffic) - was established in 2002 by the engineering companies SINA and SINECO and by the Polytechnical School of Milan. This company merges the professionalism and know-how of two of the most important national companies in the field of safety, with the prestigious support of university institution. LIRA task is to promote study, research and experimentation in the field of equipment suitable to ensure the highest level of passive safety for human, personal and collective protection on roads.

34 L.I.R.A. Goals LIRA has several business goals.the most important one is the creation of a laboratory or test field for study, research and experimentation in the field of devices necessary to ensure an adequate level of passive safety in vehicle traffic. To such purpose, assessment studies are under way to identify opportunities and possible collaborations with companies already working in this sector, in order to define the most suitable framework for the launch of the testing activities. Always in the field of passive safety, LIRA takes care of execution of calculations and numerical simulations useful to equipment efficiency assessment, by promoting the development, management and use of a specific software and the supply of advances services for technological innovation support. LIRA activities comprehend inspection and validation concerning with projects of equipment engineering and passive safety for transport infrastructures and vehicle traffic, as well as participation to research programs and studies aimed at the development of specific technical rules, together with national and international work groups

35 L.I.R.A. Activities Since its first years of activity, LIRA has given important contributions to the sector in which it operates. On behalf of its partner SINA, it accomplished calculation services, simulations and verification of system and safety device projects, as well as organization of live crush tests, in particular for a terminal system for P4 class junctions and interchanges areas, subjected to certification tests at LIER laboratory in Lyon. Moreover, for the verification of some particular engineering situations during barrier installation, LIRA has cooperation agreements with other companies in this sector, such as the Polytechnical School of Worcester (USA); together they are developing a specific study concerning with loads transmitted to bridge road floor understructure during the crash of a vehicle against a safety barrier, in order to define parameters featuring this phenomenon, by the cooperation with the Polytechnical School of Milan. Thanks to LIRA activities, now it is possible to dispose of an integrated system of safety barrier-acoustic barrier of class H4b, which has already undergone some certification tests at LIER laboratory in Lyon; this system was jointly developed with Tubosider S.p.A., and it can be used on the sides of the viaducts, especially in new constructions or upgrading works, which according to the first information, will have a good response from the market.