La mobilità avversata : Storia e attualità della linea ferroviaria ad Alta velocità Torino-Lione

The story of Italian High Speed Train is quite controversial and for many extents seems to encapsulate some of the most paradigmatic aspects of the whole history of the railway infrastructure in this country. Italy has been one of the most advanced countries in the field of High-Speed Trains, experimenting successfully the most innovative solutions since the Thirties of the XXth century and playing surely a primary technological role, but then it failed, for a long time, from a political perspective for the oscillating and contradictory transport policy. The discussed line Turin- Lyon is exactly included in this framework: a sophisticated technological project - as are trains circulating in the domestic High-speed network - but which was rejected from the popular protests and it still at risk. [Publishers' text].