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Pagliara, Francesca. Menicocci, Fabrizio.Vassallo, José Manuel. Gómez Sánchez, Juan.

For the trip purpose, it results that most of the users travel for personal reasons. Among the
HSR users around 20% travel for work or study purposes, while the percentage is just 5% for
non-HSR users. This can be explained considering that users who do not travel for systematic
trips prefer a cheaper transport alternative. This result is in line with previous research on
HSR and tourism in Spain, such as Pagliara, et al. (2015). For the whole sample, less than 70%
of the respondents travel alone or with the partner, therefore no more than two persons. It is
interesting to highlight that those who have travelled for work purposes together with their
colleagues have chosen AVE probably thanks to the special fares proposed by RENFE.
Moreover, transport mode choices by respondents for interurban trips within Spain revealed
that HSR is the most used transport mode (47.1%), followed by car (31.6%). Other transport
modes such as conventional rail or plane show a lower share (4.0% and 4.1%, respectively).
Table 2 – Summary statistics of the sample

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