Location of high speed-rail station in Spain

Abstract

The expansion of the Spanish high-speed rail (HSR) network has endured the combination of different logics of implantation. In the text there are analyzed the typologies of HSR station location bearing in mind his insertion in the urban structure and his relation with the set of the railway system. The logic of economic efficiency, which is on the base of the Spanish HSR system, favors the relationship between big metropolises. As a result the station location in these urban spaces tends to be central or tangent .Meanwhile peripheral location ones are usually the case of intermediate spaces and less densely populated. The stations register in complex territorial systems in which station location tends to answer a triple optimization: that of the speed, that of the service and that of his potentials.