Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI)

Headquarters in Rome
Company type	Società per Azioni
Industry	Rail infrastructure management
Founded	1 July 2001; 23 years ago (2001-07-01)[1]
Headquarters	Rome , Italy
Area served	Italy
Key people	Anna Masutti (Chairman) and Vera Fiorani (CEO)[2]
Services	Rail signalling, maintenance, etc.
Revenue	€ 3,057 million[3] (2021)
Net income	€ 275 million[3] (2021)
Number of employees	27,892[3] (2021)
Parent	Ferrovie dello Stato (FS)
Subsidiaries	Grandi Stazioni Rail S.p.A. (100%), Bluferries S.r.l. (100%), Blue Jet S.r.l. (100%), Terminali Italia S.r.l. (100%), Infrarail Firenze S.r.l (100%), Tunnel Ferroviario del Brennero S.p.A. (89,9%), Quadrante Europa Terminal Gate S.p.A. (50%)[3]
Website	www.rfi.it/en.html
Footnotes / references [1]

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), a state-owned holding company. RFI is the owner of Italy's railway network, it provides signalling, maintenance and other services for the railway network. It also operates train ferries between the Italian Peninsula and Sicily.

RFI's origins can be traced back to a series of railway sector reforms enacted by the Italian government during the late 1980s and 1990s. The agency was founded on 1 July 2001 in accordance with a European directive on rail transport that mandated the separation of the infrastructure operator and the service operators. Prior to RFI's creation, the Italian rail network was managed directly by FS.^[1] The agency has been periodically accused of failure to be impartial, including allegations of favouring sibling company Trenitalia over independent operations. The company has been fined in the past for anti-trust breaches. Since its creation, revenue abstraction from access charges have steadily increased, primarily due to the expansion of Italy's high-speed rail network, even as access charges have been decreased.