The Integrated Railway Network Madrid
The Integrated Railway Network Madrid is the best way to get around the city. It includes bus lines, subway and train networks.
The network is managed by Spanish rail infrastructure company ADIF. It is one of the leading European companies for the management and maintenance of high speed rail lines.
ADIF is a benchmark organisation in the innovation and integration of management systems among European infrastructure managers, and works with railway operators from across the globe. As a result, it has a wealth of experience in the development and deployment of rail traffic management systems (ERTMS) on the AVE high-speed network.
ERTMS on the AVE is the most advanced in Europe and includes features such as balises for data exchange, European Train Control System (ETCS) that continually calculates the safe speed of trains and can take over control at any time to prevent them from exceeding those limits, and Automatic Train Operation.
It also includes signalling, telecommunications and energy management systems.
The Integrated Railway Network Madrid is designed to respond to a radical change in mobility behaviour. It is a transit-oriented development (TOD), which means that it is built to support a new organic supply and demand scenario for train passengers and other users.
A high-speed line is a long-distance train route that is fast and efficient, capable of transporting large amounts of passengers from one location to another in less than an hour. This is the case of Spain's AVE high-speed railway, which runs from Seville in the south to Santiago de Compostela in the north and Barcelona in the east, with more than 3,200 km of track.