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Madrid, guests of honor |
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 Transports Publics 2010 is delighted to welcome the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid, the Madrid region network, as one of guests of honour.
The Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (CRTM) was founded by the Madrid Regional Government in 1985. It is an autonomous body whose responsibilities cover the provision of public transport services to the inhabitants of the entire Madrid region and associated municipalities.
This includes developing and managing public transport infrastructures and has also involved setting up an integrated fare system for the transport network as a whole.
The network covers 179 municipalities, representing a total population of over 6 million in 2006. The CRMT has enabled considerable expansion of public transport in recent years: 178km of metro lines, 55km of light metro lines, 36km of High Service Level Bus routes and 43km of suburban rail lines have been built in scarcely more than 15 years. Since its establishment, traffic has increased by 70%, compared to a 25.7% increase in the population over the same period. With a total of 1.623 billion passenger journeys and an average of 270 journeys per inhabitant per year, the Madrid region's network ranks as one of the most intensively-used in Spain and in Europe as a whole (2006 figures).
The Madrid network is a complex intermodal system comprising a number of different forms of transport: urban and inter-urban buses, metros, light rail transport and interurban rail routes. The city of Madrid itself is served by 200 bus routes, 13 metro lines, one light rail line and 30 interurban stations, with a further 100 urban bus routes, over 300 interurban routes, 4 metro lines and 3 light rail lines covering the rest of the region.
Visitors will be able to find out more about the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid on its stand and during events at the 2010 Transports Publics Exhibition
More information: www.ctm-madrid.es |
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