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Table 10 shows the cases of cities of Cuenca, Requena and València where HSR services started
in 2011. The IC trend of Cuenca is similar to Guadalajara, Toledo and Ciudad Real. The process
of increasing IC began about 2003 before HSR services started. Probably is a process of joining
with Metropolitan Area of Madrid. From 2011, trend change and IC decrease.

València city present a trend similar to all cities without HSR services.

Table 10. Population Growth Index of cities that started HSR services in 2011.

Finally, Table 11 shows the cases of cities of Girona, Figueres, Albacete, Villena and Alacant
where HSR services started in 2013. Except the case of Villena, all the other cities present
ICs trend similar to cities in process of metropolitan integration: Girona and Figueres with
Barcelona and Albacete with Alacant or Madrid. In all cases, the process of metropolitan
integration started long time before HSR services began.
Alacant is the only metropolitan city centre that has an IC trend above the IC of Spain, all cities
with HSR and all cities without HSR.

Table 11. Population Growth Index of cities that started HSR services in 2013.

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