Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias


ADIF is a Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure manager under the responsibility of the Ministry of Development, charged with the management of most of Spain's railway infrastructure, that is the track, signaling and stations. 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, and GIF.

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 Operadora : Owner of trains and responsible for its circulation, which works in competition with other railway companies
  2. ADIF : 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 administrating rail infrastructures, managing rail traffic distributing capacity to rail operators, and the collection of fees for infrastructure, station and freight terminal use

Current High-Speed Rail Lines in Spain">AVE">High-Speed Rail Lines in Spain

Date CompletedLine
April 1992Madrid–Seville HSL
October 2003Madrid–Zaragoza–Lleida section
April 2005Zaragoza–Huesca section
November 2005Madrid–Toledo HSL
December 2006Lleida–Camp de Tarragona section
December 2007Madrid–Valladolid section
December 2007Antequera–Malaga section
February 2008Camp de Tarragona–Barcelona section
December 2010Figueres–Perthus Tunnel and Nudo Mollet Junction-Girona sections
December 2010Madrid–Cuenca–Albacete–Valencia section
December 2011Ourense–Santiago de Compostela–A Coruña section
January 2013Barcelona–Figueres Section
June 2013Albacete–Alicante section
April 2015Santiago de Compostela–Vigo section
September 2015Valladolid–Venta de Baños–Leon section
September 2015Valladolid–Venta de Baños–Leon section
January 2018Valencia–Castellón section

High-Speed Rail Lines under Construction in Spain

  1. León - Asturias. Length: 49.7 km
  2. Venta de Baños - Burgos - Vitoria. Length: 200.4 km
  3. Vitoria - Bilbao - San Sebastián. Length: 176.5 km
  4. Madrid - Galicia. Olmedo - Zamora - Lubián - Ourense sections. Approximate length: 363 km
  5. Madrid – Castile-La Mancha – Valencia Region – Murcia Region. Length: 955 km
  6. Extension of Madrid Southern Access-Torrejón de Velasco
  7. High-speed Mediterranean Corridor. Murcia-Almería section. Length: 184.4 km
  8. Antequera-Granada. Length: 125.7 km
  9. Madrid - Extremadura - Portuguese Border. Estimated length: 450 km
  10. Madrid: Atocha-Chamartín connection. Length: 8.2 km

    Financial Information

200820092010Variation 09-10
Net business turnover1,807.01,963.01,999.81.87%
Gross operating profit 204.7278.0399.743.78%
Income2,718.92,819.42,948.74.59%
Operating costs1,568.31,769.51,766.1-0.19%
Salary and Compensation to Employees653.0674.5710.55.34%
Total economic value distributed2,542.42,546.22,573.51.07%