Secondary or no longer used rail infrastructures : a new tool for the regional railway and land planning

To reach a sustainable development of the territory, it’s implied that the choice of transportation methods must be related to the city form: compact or sprawl. On opening or upgrading railway infrastructures or stations, have increased the real value (m2) of both existing and new buildings located next to the station of the railway lines. This research aims to demonstrate how the process of locationing and the development of the rail transportation supply could re-organize the growth of the demand in exploited areas by providing an innovative contribution on transportation planning using the Smart Regional Railway System. Analyses were performed on two railway lines: Civitavecchia-Orte and Civitavecchia-Roma. For the research purposes, it has been created an index, called “Cross Section Spatial Index”. The innovation of this index is the way real estate value was considered, namely depending on the distance from an efficient transportation system.