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High-speed rail and urban development in Spain from 1992 to 2016

Table 15 shows the cases of cities and MA of Puente Genil, Antequera y Tarragona where HSR
services started in 2007.

Table 15. Population Growth Index of cities/metropolitan areas that started HSR services in 2007.

Puente Genil and Antequera not show an increasing trend of their ICs after started HSR services.
Tarragona shows a very growth of IC from 2000 to 2007 (economic expansion period), before
HSR services started. After the HSR services started (economic crisis period), the increase of
IC stopped to final of series. We can understand these results as the process of integration in
metropolitan area of Barcelona stopped.
Table 16 shows the cases of cities and MA of Málaga, Segovia, Valladolid and Barcelona where
HSR services started in 2008. In this case the MA of Málaga shows the greater IC increases
over all economics periods before and after HSR services. By contrast, Segovia city and MA
of Valladolid have the lowest IC trend. Your attention in fact that Segovia and Valladolid are
located on the north of Madrid to similar distance as Guadalajara, Toledo or Ciudad Real. So,
the IC trends of Segovia and Valladolid show that these cities aren’t in process of integration in
MA of Madrid. Particularly, Segovia show an IC decreasing especially from HSR services started
in the city in period of economic crisis.
Interesting is the case of province/MA of Barcelona. The IC of Barcelona show a trend parallel
to all cities with HSR services from about 1997 but more low in about 5-7 points always. Also
the IC of MA of Barcelona is always lower than all the other cities and MA. From 2008, the
IC stopped according to general trend of cities and MA with HSR services. This form maybe
explains the IC forms of Lleida and Tarragona which also stopped its IC increases from 2008.
The MA of Madrid also shows the stopped trend of IC from 2008, however the initial IC of Madrid
in this period is greater than the IC of Barcelona. The begin of HSR in 2008 not produced an
increase of economic activity in Barcelona, Tarragona and Lleida. However, as other cities/MA
with HSR services, the two last years changed the trend increasing IC.

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