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years of Spanish high speed rail

Traffic Control Centres

The Atocha command post used to be home to the Centralized Traffic Control system, the LZB centre, and the
remote power control, telecommunications, and detector systems. Today, the control and regulation centre is
home to the DaVinci operations integration and management platform, an Adif proprietary system, which inter-
connects all the systems needed to regulate traffic on the line.
DaVinci regulates and controls traffic, power, telecommunications, the various sensors, the passenger in-
formation system, and the automatic routers, etc. This technology has been exported to Morocco, Lithuania and
Saudi Arabia, among other countries.

Interoperability without interruption over the whole Trans-European

rail network with no technical barriers.
When designing the operational parameters In 1988 Spain had taken the historic decision
of the Madrid-Barcelona line, the decision to con- to build the Madrid-Seville high speed line using
form to the interoperability requirements set out in standard 1,435 mm gauge track, with the aim, in the
the Directive 96/48/EC of July 23, 1996, on the inte- future, of connecting the Spanish and the European
roperability of the trans-European high-speed rail networks on tracks sharing the same gauge. The Ma-
system was of vital importance. This directive encou- drid-Zaragoza-Barcelona high speed line and its sub-
raged member states to harmonize their high speed sequent extension to the French border would once
railway systems to allow trains to operate safely and and for all link up with the European rail network,

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