Re-use of disused railway and infrastructure development in an area with high economic value for tourism and the environment: the mining railway from cogne-cold water (Aosta valley) to the Rhaetian Railway (Switzerland)

In a region where tourism represents the main economic resource, a balanced development of transport infrastructures, making the best use of the territory and minimizing contrasts with environment, is an unbreakable caracteristic of a correct planning politics of economic activities. Besides, when the transport infrastructures, in particular railways, have...