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Intermodal passenger transport in Spanish high-speed rail stations

With this first perspective of the weight of each one of the stations, the main results of the
study are described below.

2. Accessibility to stations. Aggregate results

The first approximation to the results, shown in the next graph, clearly shows a different
behaviour according to HS services or conventional services.
For Great cities:
• Madrid and Barcelona: great influence of public transport, Metro and Rail (> 35%)

• The previous ones, plus Zaragoza, Málaga and Alicante show car preponderance (> 58%),
highlighting for HS services (≈ 25-35 % taxi)

• Ourense and Córdoba an intermediate situation, walking access is increasing but cars are
the main mode > 50% (≈ 20-10% taxi)

Figure 1. Accessibility to stations. Aggregate results

For Small cities, the results show a great influence of walking access (between 30 and 70%)
depending on location
The greater the size of the city the less walking access is, being replaced by mass public
transport. (Metro and Rail in Madrid and Barcelona, “Conventional” trains in Zaragoza and
Córdoba, tram in Málaga and Alicante and urban bus in the rest).

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