Administrador_de_Infraestructuras_Ferroviarias

Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias

Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias

Operator of most of Spain's railway infrastructure

ADIF (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðif], an acronym of Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias) is a Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure manager. This state owned company reports to the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility. ADIF is charged with the management of most of Spain's railway infrastructure, that is the track, signaling and stations.[2] It was formed in 2005 in response to European Union requirements to separate the natural monopoly of infrastructure management from the competitive operations of running train services. It is the legal successor of Renfe, Feve (Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha), and GIF (Gestor de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias).

This article is about the Spanish company. For the Argentine company, see Administración de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias Sociedad del Estado.

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Founding

ADIF is the result of Railway Sector Act, which arises from the transposition of European Directives. It requires that large European national railway independently manage the infrastructure and trains on it. The ultimate goal was to allow any other rail operator operating on the network to do so on equal terms with the operator, in this case, Renfe, promoting free competition. The Renfe division became effective on 1 January 2005 between the two companies:

  1. Renfe (newly created entity): Owner of trains and responsible for its circulation, which works in competition with other railway companies
  2. ADIF (Legal successor of Renfe): Owner of infrastructure and responsible for its management, which provides its services to any rail operator who requests

A similar operation was conducted on 31 December 2012 with Feve, a company that managed the narrow gauge railways. ADIF took charge of all narrow gauge infrastructures not transferred to the autonomous governments.

Operations

ADIF is responsible for administering rail infrastructures (tracks, stations, freight terminals, etc.), managing rail traffic distributing capacity to rail operators, and the collection of fees for infrastructure, station and freight terminal use [3]

Current high-speed rail lines in Spain

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High-speed rail lines under construction in Spain

  1. León - Asturias (Pajares New Line). Length: 49.7 km
  2. Venta de Baños - Burgos - Vitoria. Length: 200.4 km
  3. Vitoria - Bilbao - San Sebastián. Length: 176.5 km (including accesses to cities)
  4. Madrid – Castile-La Mancha – Valencia Region – Murcia Region. Length: 955 km (603 in service and 352 under construction)
  5. Extension of Madrid Southern Access-Torrejón de Velasco
  6. High-speed Mediterranean Corridor. Murcia-Almería section. Length: 184.4 km (not including the Murcia Railway Network)
  7. Antequera-Granada. Length: 125.7 km
  8. Madrid - Extremadura - Portuguese Border. Estimated length: 450 km
  9. Madrid: Atocha-Chamartín connection. Length: 8.2 km [5]

Financial information

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References

  1. [1]
    "Executive Summary page 22/23" (PDF).
  2. [2]
    Conocer Adif, Adif, archived from the original on 19 June 2010, retrieved 25 June 2010. (in Spanish)
  3. [3]
    "Learn about Adif". Archived from the original on 26 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  4. [4]
    Chris King (20 December 2021). "AVE links Madrid with Galicia after 20 years". euroweeklynews.com. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Adif - High speed lines". www.adif.es. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
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