Gerbido Plant

The Gerbido depot, owned by GTT - Gruppo Torinese Trasporti, covers an area of approximately 100.000 sm of which 30.000 sm are occupied by buildings, 54.000 sm are used for parking and 16.000 sm are dedicated to fixed installations.
The depot has a vast parking area and a dedicated natural gas filling station. Today it can host up to 350 buses, out of which 189 are natural gas powered. In the Gerbido depot work 840 persons: 700 drivers, 100 labourers and 40 operators.

Due to the wide outdoors parking facilities and to the garage equipped for the contemporaneous maintenance of up to 27 buses either diesel and natural gas powered, Gerbido Is a stategic depot in the management of the public  transportation for the Torino municipality.

The depot also offers some specific maintenance services to the entire GTT fleet and represents one of the most adavanced center in Europe for the monitoring of the natural gas system applied to bus fleets.

The Gerbido depot hosts the widest natural gas filling station for buses in Europe, opened on Dec 5th 2005.

• 16 filling points and 8 master units (under 2 shelters)
• 1 high capacity double dispenser
• 5 CNG compression units CNG (4 working  units + 1 backup unit) + 1 backup)
• 5 additional refrigerating groups
• managing dispenser software
• capacity of compression: 3.800 Sm3/h
• suction pressure: 11,4 bar
• buses refilled:
  • 123 short vehicles (12m)
  • 66 long vehicles (18m)
• average refuelling:
  • 145 Sm3 - 12m
  • 185 Sm3 - 18m

This CNG station can refill up to 8 buses at the same time.

The refuelling time can vary depending on the capacity and on the residual pressure of the vessels installed on the bus.

Normally at the Gerbido plant a bus can be refilled in about 15 minutes.

In 8 hours, thanks to the 16 refilling points managed through the dispenser software, we can refill up to 140 buses.
At night time Torino Metano is in charge of the CNG refuelling operations of the GTT fleet, as well as other connected activities.

During the day our staff runs the public station opened to the citizenship and to the CNG fleet of several institutions and public companies operating
in the Torino metropolitan area.

The CNG plant refills an approximate average of 33.000 Sm3/day of which 25.000 Sm3 for GTT buses and 8.000 Sm3 for private vehicles.

Also at night time Torino Metano workers assure the refuelling of GTT diesel buses at the dedicated facilities inside the Gerbido depot.

Gerbido CNG filling station
(both private and opened to the public)
via Gorini 30/b Torino