Adif will install the most advanced technology in railway traffic management in the three Traffic Regulation Centers (CRC) from which it controls, in remote and real time, the circulation of trains along the conventional width and metric width lines of the northern half of the network.
The action, which has just contracted for 7.1 million euros, involves renewing the Centralized Traffic Control (CTC), the software and hardware that make up the ‘technological brain’ of railway traffic management, in the CRC of Miranda de Ebro (Burgos), Santander and Bilbao.
These CRC will have a CTC at the forefront of technology in traffic management, with new tools and functionalities. In addition, they will be equipped with a back-up system, which ensures continuity of circulation in case of incidence in the main. In this way, Adif strengthens the availability and efficiency of the system, and the reliability and capacity of the circulation.
The action also includes the deployment of this new technology in the ten Regional Operations Posts (PRO) that Adif has distributed throughout this area of the network, which support and support the activity of the three CRC.
From the CRC of Miranda de Ebro, Santander and Bilbao, Adif manages the passage of trains through all the conventional lines and of metric width as it passes through Castilla y León, Basque Country, Cantabria, La Rioja and Navarra, which adds up to about 1,784 km.
Plan of 72 M€ to modernise traffic management
With the technological update of these CRC, Adif advances in the plan that, with a global investment of 72 million euros, is modernizing and providing the latest technology to all the CRC from which it manages remotely and in real time the entire circulation of trains throughout the conventional and local network.
Adif has a network of 19 CRC’s spread throughout the railway network, nerve centers, at the cutting edge of technology and operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Once the installation of the new technology (the new CTC) has been completed in the CRC of Barcelona, León and El Berrón, it is currently deployed in the CRC of Madrid Chamartín, Manzanares, Valencia and Ourense, and has its implementation in the CRC of Zaragoza and in the five from which it controls traffic through conventional lines of the south: the CRC of Seville, Malaga, Cordoba, Granada and Ronda.
Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) is the ‘brain’ of these CRCs, the technological solution with which the interlocks are remotely controlled, the devices that, in turn, manage in real time and remotely the signalling and the deviations of the railway network, establishing safe itineraries for the circulations.
Also renews the own CRC
This renovation is in addition to the one that Adif also carries out in the buildings and facilities that house the CRC. After completing in recent years those of the centers of León, Seville and El Berrón, it currently undertakes those of Ourense, Córdoba and Valencia.
The renewal of this system contributes to the achievement of SDG 9 (promoting sustainable, reliable and quality infrastructures).