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The demand in a railway corridor after the HSR

3. Forecast and current demand – field work

In 2007, a detailed fieldwork was carried out throughout the Madrid-Levante corridor, consisting
of surveys and counts in the different modes of transport, as well as the collection of statistical
data to establish the main flows in the corridor.

Figure 7. Surveys in corridor Madrid-Levante (2007).

Once the first phase of the line (Madrid-Albacete/Valencia) was put into service, ADIF decided
to carry out several fieldwork campaigns to know the changes in the mobility between Madrid
and Valencia, with the same methodology as in the previous studies in 2007. Later, in 2013
and 2014, the campaigns focused in the relationship Madrid-Alicante, with surveys and counts
before and after the new HSL Albacete-Alicante.
The following table shows the date of these fieldworks.

Campaigns
Relation
Winter Summer
November 2011 July 2012
Madrid-Valencia
November 2013 July 2014

April 2013
Madrid-Alicante
November 2013 July 2014
Table 1. Campaigns of field work carried out between Madrid, Valencia and Alicante

The same type of fieldwork was carried out by ADIF for the corridor Madrid-Galicia/Asturias, in
2008 a complete campaign of surveys was made to establish the real mobility in that moment,
and recently (last year) this work was done over with the new sections of HSL Madrid-Galicia
and Madrid/Asturias.

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