Iberovías, a Rover Alcisa Group company specialized in the construction and maintenance of railway infrastructure and superstructure, has been awarded the maintenance of the section of Torrejón de Velasco-Gabaldón of the Line Madrid-Levante.

Iberovías participates in this work in a consortium with Acciona Infraestructuras and Coalvi.

The activities contemplated will be aimed at ensuring, as far as it is concerned in the infrastructure system, route and detours of traffic safety, to achieve the highest possible degree of comfort for passengers and maintain regularity indices characterizing trains that will circulate by this line of High Speed.

The maintenance period is expected of two years and a half, between July 2010 and December 2012, extendable to two years if any mutual agreement.

The maintenance work has as aim the achievement of quality standards. This has materialized in three areas: safety, comfort and regularity, these concepts and in turn generate the need to define some parameters and set thresholds to delineate the proceedings.

It considers security as a fundamental premise of service to travelers.

This involves the implementation of an evolutionary control system auscultations and monitoring, and from where it follows an early diagnosis of most of the contingencies that could affect safety.

Once the actions are prioritized and the levels of security are secured, it will begin to set out the actions aimed at improving comfort by implementing intervention thresholds and a selection of areas to be treated.

The most common expression of a precautionary measure against a problem that is present in the pathway, is rate limiting, in which suit the conditions of the circulation to the circumstances: by slowing speed the cinematic effects perceived by travellers are also lower lowered.

This ensures the comfort and security, but it affects the regularity of the trains, which can be of some importance given the commitment of punctuality acquired by the operator, which represents a refund of the ticket for delays of more than 5 minutes .

The most relevant data concerning the speed limits is the loss of time put into the running of the train. It is accepted that the trains are affected up to three minutes in normal operation.

During the proceedings of such singular occurrence, or planned actions of great entity can be deleted the on-time commitment of the operator.

It also monitors the proper allocation of financial resources through the proper contable process of them.

Interventions aimed at improving the assets of the line have the economic nature of investment and are an important part of the activity of Infrastructure Management and Rail. Many of these interventions are aimed at increasing security levels (trenches, consolidation soil), other, the comfort of passengers (increased depth). In general, all of them contribute directly or indirectly to preserve the normal operation and, therefore, regularity. Also allow better use of resources, human and material, for maintenance.

The activities necessary to achieve the above objectives are:

 Preserving the quality of track geometry and track equipment ensure the smooth operation of the elements of track superstructure.

 Maintain drainage systems operating longitudinal and transverse.

 Keep the closure of the line.

 Run prompt corrective actions in case of incident.

 Establishment of surveillance and preventive measures in case of temporary alert or other causes.

 Provision of relief to trains with incidents. In particular assistance to trains with passengers who have suffered loss of tension or traction will be attended with diesel locomotives.

Additionally, it will also be object in the maintenance contract other activities necessary for the proper management of railway infrastructure maintenance of Afta Speed:

 Warehouse Management.

 Negotiations with neighbouring property owners when necessary.

Maintenance of ways, bases  of management with their corresponding buildings and workshops.

 Closing the entire line, stations and workshops.

  Infrastructure.

It is also considered to be maintained any infrastructure, wide track and divert international or mixed, which has a connection with current AV pathways and that starts its operation in the years of the contract. In short, it will be included the maintenance of any branch, installation, workshop or via or pathways that links the stretch Torrejón de Velasco-Gabaldon, provided that no additional length reaches 15% of the object included in the statement of this offer.