Mercury Programme
Mercury. Smart Sustainable Mobility
Programme objectives
With the Mercury Programme. Smart Sustainable Mobility , Autostrade per l'Italia group is working to build a large unitary and coordinated hub for technological innovation to guarantee safer infrastructures and play a leading role in the revolution that decarbonisation, digitisation and new transport services are bringing to all mobility systems.
This programme has been named after Mercury , the patron deity of travellers, and is also inspired by the historic 'Project Mercury' , the first American space programme involving manned space missions, as we face a challenge that will change the mobility of the future.
Project carried out by Autostrade per l'Italia, in collaboration with its subsidiaries:




The projects
Infrastructure digitisation initiatives and activities to enable systems and technologies, collect and exchange information
Projects in the field of traffic flow improvement through intelligent road systems infrastructure
Initiatives in the area of digitisation and automation of collection systems
Activities in the field of environmental sustainability and energy production from renewable sources
Initiatives to improve services and mobility solutions in urban centres

Connected Infrastructure represents the set of initiatives aimed at enabling the other projects of the Mercury Programme. It includes both the infrastructure and the technologies capable of detecting, transmitting and processing data from the network in real time and enabling all subsystems within the V2X (vehicle to everything) connectivity.
Enabling systems
Initiatives
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Intelligent Roads is the core initiative that implements, coordinates and integrates systems detection, transmission, processing, communication and execution to improve road safety, traffic flow control and quality, infrastructure monitoring, and to inform and assist users.
Traffic Safety Systems
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User information and assistance systems
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Traffic control systems
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Infrastructure control systems
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Flexible Pricing encompasses initiatives to transform tolling systems in order to digitise the payment experience and thus reduce congestion and waiting at toll booths, improving the travel experience.
Toll management
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Green Solutions encompasses key energy transition initiatives such as the widespread installation of high-powered electric charging stations, the distribution of compressed hydrogen and LNG, and the deployment of large areas of solar panels.
Decarbonisation
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Urban Mobility includes initiatives which, starting from the solutions and technologies already adopted on the motorway network, aim to develop new, sustainable and innovative mobility models with the objective of optimising vehicle flow and safety in urban centres, ensuring tangible benefits for the entire community