Sagitta Consortium to promote digital transport solutions

Almaviva - which has recently bought Iteris - and FS Group have launched the Sagitta Consortium to promote Italian digital solutions in the transport and logistics sector on a global scale.

The creation of the consortium builds upon an agreement signed one year ago by the same parties. Smeraldo Fiorentini, deputy chief executive of Almaviva’s transportation and logistics division, has been named managing director of Sagitta.

Sagitta will offer digital mobility solutions, including Almaviva's existing proprietary platform for integrated mobility, Moova. 

The consortium will specialise in traffic and transport planning, digital twin and health monitoring for infrastructure as well as multimodal integrated mobility - Mobility as a Service (MaaS), ticketing and infomobility

Sagitta will operate across Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, northern Africa and India. 

In Italy, the consortium will spearhead projects supporting strategic sectors to  enhance sustainable mobility, tourism, transport infrastructure monitoring and intermodal logistics.

Massimiliano Garri, chief technology, innovation and digital officer of the FS Group, explains: “Our focus is on activating digital platforms capable of concretely improving the movement of people and goods, aiming for increasingly integrated and sustainable mobility."

Marco Tripi, chief executive of Almaviva, adds: “This initiative strengthens a decades-long collaboration which, with the creation of the Sagitta Consortium, evolves to meet the opportunities of the global transport and logistics sector by offering unique, advanced and distinctive solutions such as our Moova platform, already active in technologically advanced markets across the globe. Sagitta’s mission is to export Italian excellence in line with the latest developments in European interoperability.”

Francesco De Leo, chief global strategy and international officer of FS Group, has been appointed as chairman of the consortium.