CAMBIOS EN LAS CIUDADES DE LA LÍNEA DE ALTA VELOCIDAD MADRID-SEVILLA DESDE SU IMPLANTACIÓN

The high-speed railway has meant the last great transformation of this means of transport, which in outset, was one of the key elements of the Industrial Revolution. The first Spanish line, Madrid-Sevilla, with its 13 years in operation, allows analysing the evolution of the traffic generated and its incidence in the towns it serves, which, with a strong extension and urban expansion component, affects in a great way the population and consequently, the economic activity developed. The different size and weight in ranking of the five towns, very diverse, as well as the rate of transformation in respect of the former railway, give rise to different situations in each case, resulting a higher incidence, as high is the volume of infrastructures built, but the outcome is always motor in the development of a new urban extension and new activities, as well as making possible the change in the land use in the spaces made available by the installations displacement.