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Grindlay, Alejandro Luis. Huertas-Fernández, Miguel. Molero-Melgarejo, F. Emilio.

3. Present rail deveolpment and future scenarios

The current rail development in Spain is guided by the infrastructure politics established
in the last national infrastructure plans. They will set out the future scenarios of the
rail system. The actions to transform this system in the central element to articulate the
intermodal transport services, for both passenger and freight were determined as a priority
(Ministerio de Fomento, 2005).

The present national infrastructure plan, the Housing and Transport Infrastructure Plan
(PITVI) 2012-2024, establishes a long term complete objective network, as a planning final
image for the national HSR network. Figure 5 (Ministerio de Fomento, 2015). It constitutes
an extraordinary and non-realistic picture of a complete set of HSR lines all over the country.
In Andalusia these lines were also previously considered in the regional territorial plan
(COPT, 2006) (Figure 6) and later appeared as high-performance rail lines –as they will have
less speed than the first HSR developed- and studied corridors in the regional infrastructure
plan and its last revision (CFV, 2016). These include the eastern lost connection of the
transversal rail axis from Granada to Lorca (Murcia), and the difficult connections from
Granada to the coast (the city-port of Motril), and the coastal rail line connecting from
Almeria to Malaga and Algeciras.Therefore the revised regional infrastructure plan (PISTA
2020) include all these proposed actions of the national plan as studied corridors: Almeria
- Malaga-Algeciras; Madrid – Jaen; Cordoba – Jaen; Granada – Motril; Granada – Lorca (CFV,
2016), and they could be considered for a more distant scenario.

Figure 5. Spanish High Speed Rail Network expected in the Transport Infrastructure Plan.
Source: Ministerio de Fomento (2015)

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